U have been certified, what can you do with the skills u learnt during the process of obtaining your certification?

@all,

I am pleased that Interswitch is taking positive steps into the issue. Assessing what is needed to be done. I am not at liberty to disclose any additional information in regards to this.

I can definitely tell y'all that Interswitch is actively working towards a resolution.

well finally they replied. about looking into the situation

hopefully lets see how it goes

@seun I do understand your concerns but soon and very soon, it will be discovered and potentially if it is discovered, then it can potentially be extremely disastrous they can go out of business if it gets into wrong hands, but this is Nigeria who knows.

Scapegoat, well that is none of my worries right now.

I have done for tokunbo.com, they were questioning that if i was the hacker. That was for sql injection.

Being talking with pips for advice and getting a couple of contacts together.

The language keeps evolving so if you are interested in using it, you have to learn the new functions. Keeping in mind you can keep doing it the old way and getting similar results.


Only the person that is learning a process knows what he/she wants to use it for. A second party should ideally not pass judgement on what such person is doing

I am first going to try to get their attention, mail those bodies given above, mail the certification agency. Before I will decide to make this public

I can prove it.

It is replicable.

I will look up those bodies mentioned.

Thanks

Nothing is obsolete. The methods learnt previously are only improved for efficiency.

I first did vb.net 2003 and when 2010 came out I initially wasnt interested in learning it but later got a grasp of it and technically similar in terms of structure, what changed? Methods calls, more compacted, no need for reduced redundancy. Whatever you learnt previously greatly helps in understand what is available at present. You can simply say the system learnt in 2000 is of absolute irrelevance today.

Oh well sha, no wahala. Everyone has his/her own philosophy.

I have discovered a loophole in Interswitch's online payment gateway.

I dont need a valid card information, pin code, expiration date, and I can still process a payment for it to get approved.

I have tried getting in touch with them to have a talk with Interswitch but they are not responding. And they just got certified last month as meeting international standards for online payment processor.

What can I do next? This is a huge risk for business and just waiting to be exploited.

@lojik

Am impressed with your bank roll. May your bank not go bankrupt.

Anyone if he or she chooses can start to write computer programs after 1hr of reading. Don't compare a university degree to an hobbyist who potentially hopes to become professional.

So basically your point is that, if I am learning a new skill and I dont make/produce something out of my newly acquired skill in a certain number of years, that means I am a failure?

Short of words, I rest my case.

@lojik
Must there be a product?
What are you passionate about?
How dedicated are you doing what you do?

Well, I am expecting an outraged response if there is one. Dismissing the relevance of my question.

If you may be interested, read about this guy.
http://www.kokeytechnology.com/internet-news/russian-mathematician-rejects-1-million-dollar-prize-reward-for-solving-a-hundred-year-old-math-problem/

Learning how to program is a life long process unless you decide to stop.

How long has it taking you to learn English language? Everyday or regularly you come across new words, new style of writing, that sometimes you have to look up in a dictionary. So you continue to learn.

Back to programming. Think about it. if the likes of Gates etc stopped improving on their programming skills, do you think they will be where they are today? Also consider that very frequently, there are new methodologies, algorithms, frameworks, programming languages, updates to existing languages. These new tools, and updates are most likely going to make your work easier. They are aimed at making the time required for development shorter and also make your application better user interface wise. So why dont you go and drive a Volkswagen beetle when you can ride in a ferrari.

Also remember that you cannot learn everything about programming. Languages are too broad. Everyone learns at a different pace. You may belittle him now, who knows if he is so confident in himself that he is going to make a breakthrough in life and be a billionaire?

Programming is his interest. People like football, they watch tv screens all day and what do they get from it? shouting, high blood pressure, and sometimes if they gamble then get and lose money. While this is someone try to understand what he needs to be better at his profession.

I also do not support certifications. I believe if you study well, you can succeed on certified exams. What will you do if you come to work and cant perform? Experience always wins. There are individuals around the world that have not gone to school to learn about IT and are experts in their fields today. It is all about how hard you want to push yourself. Are you that dedicated to learning something new that you want to use professionally by yourself?

Please just don't say anything bad towards him, that is the worst thing you can do. If you cannot see the value added to him, he knows the value he has obtained from all the hours he has spent and willing to spend in front of the screen.

Personally I spend a lot of time in front of the screen, when I was leaving home to school my dad told me, keep your computer only bring it out when you want to do assignment, don't spend too much time with computers. Well, i spent all the time I could in front of a computer. I stopped my MBA to do what I love to do (computers) I have gotten a lot of experience, I have developed very good skills. I am doing pretty well today, Do I regret? No. Do people around me understand why I do what I do? No, but do I know why I do what I do? Yes, do I know my potential? Yes.

He is the only one that knows how far he is willing to push himself. He is the only one that knows what he wants to do. If you are so curious as to why you dont understand him, sit and you can talk to him. If he is a talkative person, you can tell him to explain things you would wish to know. But I am betting that he wont talk much about it because you wont understand. I dont talk about my work and my professional interest with most people because they wont understand. If we have similar background then talking will be easier. But just keep in mind if you ask to talk with him, dont push it unless he is willing to be open with you.

Don't mess around with someone that sits alone or is focused.

Do you have a 3g wireless cellular router?

I am in need of one.

What is your price?
What is your location?


Like this

http://aluratek.com/3g-wireless-usb-cellular-router

@adewaleafolabi

about the quiz application. I built one recently. It can be deployed as a client server application. But right now I cannot release it to the public. Hopefully I can get some clearance from my office if they do not plan to use it then I can release.

@ojesymsym
The printer stuff is a big challenge really, I am just about conceding. Computer 1 : Me 0. lol
I will still take a look at it. But I have done a couplel of useless applications that really are not useful in anyways. I shall put them out to the public once I get a site up.

you can send me email to devbean@gmail.com

This is getting complicated.  The challenge is to get the status update of the print job

I have to account for all printed jobs that is 100% complete
If a job is cancelled, I need to store the information and number of pages printed

The time it takes when the status changes is too fast to catch

I have tried running at 5 milliseconds to check for jobs and status updates still not able to catch the rapid changes.

This is actually complicated because assuming a job is sent to the printer, i am thinking of storing all jobs sent regardless if it was later canceled or deleted.

Then as the job is being processed check for status updates. I am thinking I will need another one for this to speed up the application now we are talking multithreaded client-server application.

This will be beneficial when this is running in an environment that has many clients.  and potentially if about 10 or more jobs are sent to the printer. also knowing there is a possibility of sending to multiple printers .

I have the methods to get the status changes but as I read them and my grid refreshes, it clears back to normal which is not yet done = false.


I am going to try the multithreaded stuff, one for storing the info to db of jobs another thread to check for updates.

Ideas welcomed and if you are not sure of what I am talking about ask for clarification

There is also an issue of virtual printers and like send to one note. Hopefully I can figure out a way to determine a real printers? I can exclude cutepdfwriter, and some of them but I dont know all that exist. So would be unrealistic to exclude each one individually.

Should I also count virtual printers like cutepdf, send to onenote, microsoft xps document writer?

Think about everything you do everyday it is like a program.

Lets say a Clark goes to bed, sets alarm to 6am. Now do some abstraction.


If time is 6am
BEGIN:
alarm ring
If Clark hears alarm
smash alarm to stop
if Clark gets up
go to shower
If there is water
shower
else if there is cart pusher
call cart pusher
shower
else
shower with perfume
end if
while is eating
watch tv
end while
else
keep sleeping go to BEGIN
end if
else
Clark continue to sleep
end if
else
alarm dont ring
end if

Technically everything anyone does on any given day is like a program. You decide if you should eat or not, if you should walk, drive, okada, dependent on the amount of money in the pocket. If you think about this and sort of try to put many things you see in your daily life into a program form, I believe it will help in understand some concepts in regards to computer programming. Unfortunately, practice is the best thing that can happen.

F1 drivers practice to be great at what they do
Football practice to become world player of the year
Musicians go to studio for sessions to release hits
Students practice to excel in exams

Why cant you practice programming to be the best you can be?

As someone mentioned previously, understand a problem is key to accomplishing your task. Logic is very important and ability to foresee results will be great so you will have a better understanding of design patterns and best options.

This is just a screenshot of what I am working with now.

I plan to turn it to a service later. Just putting codes together for now.

Things to consider.
1. Multiple printers, this means one has to be looping through all printers to get jobs in queue.
2. Now i am using a timer control to check if there are new jobs available. so that keeps running. I am trying to find if there is a way to automatically detect new print jobs without the timer control.

Size is in bytes. those are the info that will be stored in the db. My db structure goes something like this. I may add more tables for printer etc still have to decide.

COMPUTER
compid
date (now)
computername
macaddress
signature*

*(an algorithm generated unique identifier for each computer, this is. incase a user changes name of computer or macaddress

USER
userid
date (now)
name (currentuser)
compidfk


PRINTJOB
printjobid
date
description
size
color (T/F)
status (Printed/Canceled etc)
pages (number of pages to print)
copies (number of copies of each page to print)
totalpages (pages*copies)
landscape (T/F)
printername
printresolution (resolution used for printing)
queuetime (total time the document has been waiting in queue to print)
useridfk

send me an email

gixroq@gmail.com

So i keep you on a mailing list of updates.

I plan to have a website next week.

Just been slow about that thought about it long ago just slow now it is needed.

I have a solution. I have the list of information I need.

I have tried posting it on NL but keeps getting deleted.

I guess I will be using an external link for updates. I cant even post pictures it gets deleted. I wanted to give you guys a demo app to see but gets deleted. I will work on getting a link up shortly

This looks like something you guys are thinking about
http://www.merrioncomputing.com/Products/Puma/puma_overview.htm

This is getting more and more interesting. Definitely doing the best I can to come up with useful information to accomplish this.

This is definitely possible. Most of lojik's suggested features can definitely be implemented if and when this is a go.

But if anyone else is interested. So far these are the resources I have working with.

1. Looks like one should be focused more on Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).
2.http://www.codeproject.com/KB/printing/prntjobcontrollerusingwmi.aspx
3. http://www.codeproject.com/KB/printing/printwatchvbnet.aspx
4. This component is aimed at achieving the above, havent gone into details  reading. http://www.merrioncomputing.com/Download/PrintQueueWatch.htm   and loooks old not sure how old
5. If by chance anyone is trying this and looking to do this in visual studio,

Imports system.printing

there is also

Imports System.Drawing.Printing        looks like this is the one most needed gotten list of printers, settings etc

This namespace is not added by default so you need to go to the property of your project and navigate to references. click on add. select the .NET tab. and look for ReachFramework. Select that and voila you have the printing namespace.     lost where i found this tip. Will keep my sources properly.

6. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.printing.aspx

Not yet giving up. Still looking into this



This seems like one of the easiest options free to use
http://www.merrioncomputing.com/Download/PrintQueueWatch/PrinterQueueWatchLicensing.htm

ojesymsym:

Can u help write a script/program that monitors printer and shows the number of pages printed, colours and other details??

I shall explore this more. Looks like this is a top choice for now.
That is interesting. Are you in an office or cybercafe?
Will the information be stored on a daily basis.

Are there any document imaging service providers?

Looking to scan a book and convert it to an editable electronic version.

If you have any ideas kindly let post the turn over time for maybe about a 500 paged book.

@lojik

Thats what I wish to do but I am empty. Dont have ideas. Thats what is holding me back now

@netghost

I approve

Kindly refer to my older posts to understand who this is.

I am not a student if you care to know. And this is not the first time I am offering to do stuff for free.

@jeezfreak7

I will recommend you first read about programming on www.wikipedia.org
Then you can search for web programming, desktop programming, cross-platform programming, programming languages. Read about all those then you will have more information to assist you and remember, Google is your best friend never lets you down. whatever programming language tutorial, you can also try youtube for video lessons.


@lojik
I previously did windows mobile but that was long ago I am not into porting. Not familiar with the techniques involved. Sorry to disappoint you. My knowledge is limited. I am glad google came out with the inventor stuff that should hopefully make more people develop for the android platform which rox. Learning java has put me off android but seems google is working towards making it user friendly.


@jeezfreak7
I can definitely take this into consideration if you can provide the formulas and how to solve the formulas that will be cool. Last time I did statistics and or mathematics was 2002. Definitely rusty. So you provide all formulas and steps to solve the formulas, then we can talk and hopefully with your name thing we can come to an agreement.

Sitting in the office bored and confused.

I thought about building a mouse tracker. Basically for each day, store all the clicks a user makes to a db.
Time
coordinates x,y
process
and maybe if website record the domain not the full url.

eventually you can get a historical view of activities by having a screen over-layed with all the clicks and a little bubble appearing on mouse over to display time and related info. Over a period of time with huge data set, you can do more cool stuff with visualization and design patterns. This was going to run as a service obviously.

Coworker said dont do it. lol I was thinking maybe for website if you implement this type of thing you can see areas most likely to be clicked that users are accustomed to moving their mouse to. For better control placement and usability study. This would be better with access to over 100 users. So you can get valid data for application designing and better compliance with human computer interaction.

I will assume something like this has been done but who cares. SO for now that is aside. Now if you have an application to build, depending on the scope of such an application I may take it up as a challenge to build it for FREE. Everyone likes free things.

I will write this in either C# or VB.NET.
.NET framework v4
If a database is needed. I will be using Mysql for storage v5.
Visual studio professional 2010.

If I do anything for anyone, I will not be providing detailed documentation maybe a simple how to quicky guide.

All types of application suggestions are welcomed.

So submit your ideas and I will take them into consideration to build for free.

@Kay 17
Now, such laws are outdated. Interesting.
So can we agree that the old testament is entirely irrelevant?

@Image123
Why forgive when he said you should cut it off? No need to plead for forgiveness.

@nopuqeater
Well put. So many questions few or no answers.