₦airaland Forum

genius33:
That's certainly good to hear, I am a bit apprehensive about being able to fit in and be integrated in a male dominated work environment but I guess it's not so bad nowadays.
So would you say it's a worthwhile career or are there any obstacles you v'e had to face?

The whole world is male dominated ! ! !

eezeebone:
Thanks uchetobi, but what if i don't want to be an acountant. I just want to be like a risk manager or have opportunities to work in a financial institution?

There are elements of accounting all over the CFA curriculum. Infact its roughly about 45%. It is very good for analyst type roles but since you are interested in risk management try FRM instead

i found the afternoon session a lot harder and tricker

ika6 so you're still alife . we finally see what u look like

interesting

am only using the scheswer study notes and the practice exams.

javalove:
Yeah i did a search on yahoo group myself and found but its sooooo inactive and its the usual naija style, peeps not being technical looking for job openings and all, this one is a bit different though,

No hating, just my opinion

It was actually active for a while . I think it was formed around 1998 by one guy can't remember his name again we even had a couple of meetings but getting a location for the meeting was a problem back then.

Agreed a lot of the guys coming to the meeting then were java novices but when it was suggested we start working on a practical project guys lost interest and the group died.

nice one. you for don post that link since o. i wasted money buying some of the free stuff in there

i got 72% for that one. i suppose see if i go do the mock exam. Did u get the chance to do any of the schewser practice exams ?

combrazor:
dude--

i had already left it alone, but if you still want to make something of it, we can.

i'm actually quite disgusted with you-- how shameless and immoral you are, and the only justification you can offer is "everybody's doing it."

you make me sick. i had even forgotten about this, but now you have to bring the bile back to my throat.

Sharap !! mumu

What is your stress . leave the young man alone

schewser practice exams are brutal. I can't seem to reach the 70% mark 

@chiks-cfa2

Nice to see someone that is actually working in equity research. Most of what is in the curriculum should be familiar to you i guess.

Well the only thing that i think Apache brings to the table is maybe clusturing and load balancing which is now available in Tomcat 5.5 and above

I still think tomcat can do pretty well alone in a highly demanding enviroment but i don't really have facts to back this up because i have seen it used most times in combination with apache webserver.

logica the employer

There used to be one Java User Group lagos created many years back.

Am thinking for OSGi to be widely adopted, app servers or servlet containers need to actually implement the OSGi spec and serve as OSGi containers. Sun probably need to revise its servlet specs to drive this.

let me read up on OSGI and get back

how i wish

It is a myth that mission critical apps cannot run in tomcat. What you might not get is the rich app console that comes with most major appservers. I have seen tomcat combined with apache web server for a high transactional webstore (one major issue however was clusturing ) and it stood up.

Of all the app servers i have worked with Jboss is my favorite(am still playing around with Glassfish though and it looks pretty decent).

As for WAS. I have had a lot of flak getting the dam Clusturing to work across 2 JVMs . something which was a breeze with Jboss. And little things like its JNDI naming scheme which is different from the reference implementation just drives me nuts

Trust me people do not do much EJBs this days.

Developers are now relying more on light weigth frameworks to get the job done. I have used Jboss, Websphere(a nightmare to work with IMO) and Glassfish in previous projects and nothing still beats the simplicity of using a Simple servlet container like Tomcat.
In fact in one of our recent projects we even embedded Jetty (a less than 2mg jar file ) into our app and we were still able to provide enterprise services like JMS , transaction management ,etc via plugins

Wrong Tomcat is actually a very robust platform .

If you are not developing EJBs (i wonder who does that this days) you are better off with a very simple servlet container like tomcat.

hmm

wyt.

You might want to start preparing for dec from now. This will give you plenty of time to master the material and practice the questions.

iice:
[color=#9900ff]Candylips na wah. . .so which do you prefer? _{as if that makes any difference in a good show} [/color]

I definately love american tv shows. British tv is crap at best.

At the end of the day i prefer neither of these countries.
Nija is still where home is and will always be.

The DeadZone

SeanT21:
i am just trying to figure out if america is better that the UK.people say america is better.

Why don't you stick with your america and stop trying to compare then.

All these places are not even your home country you are probably just an immigrant. Even some native Americans or native British people will love to migrate to other places.


Abeg try drop all this UK vs US thingy cos its not worth it.

You mean learn how to make rubbish films.

Tolulop001:
the thing is i feel im my heart of hearts that this is what i want to do, i know it is drastic, but i really am motivated at this time. i believe il be feeling the same way 2 years down the line nd i really want to be prepared for the exam. thanks. any more advice will be appeciated,

Then its not worth wasting your time studying for 7-8 years if you are not going to go into practice.

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Things i hate about New york.

Filty subway.
Horrible food.


I do live in london so maybe am a little bit baised but i dont see anything spectacular about new york. I will rather live in Maimi or LA but never in New york

All you women of nowadays are just gold - diggers

I dont know Mercy but i think Ini is a hot chick