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Hey kobojunkie i would like to correct the impression you got that i classified C# as an Open source; what i mean is that i do code in c# as well. I have seen an interesting issue coming out of this thread such as some learning of what Open Source actually mean and i appreciate the guy that took his time to give that lengthy interesting lecture.
People generally think that open source simply means you spend lengthy time coding with too little money coming in but i will tell you a secret i have discovered with this open source guys.
i am going to quote what an open source evangelist said,'The best people in any field are not motivated by money, rather it is a means of settling scores.The best people are motivated by passion'; qoute by Eric Raymond,you could check this out at YouTube site.The author of Facebook was a Harvard student before he developed the Network site. That has always been his passion and he dropped out of Havard to pursue his dream of using an open source language to build a social site. Today Facebook records over 100 million members and is rated the second largest social site next to MySpace. People are doing a lot of things with the open source language and are generating a hell lot of revenue. I think the problem with us is that we do actually know the technology to do something very useful but the problem is that we lack idea of what to do with this technology. I am having similar problem until i learned that developers also do serious research on the net to get ideas of what to do with the technology they have learned.

I am glad to here all your views on this one question, by Open Source i mean all scripting languages that are used for web application development. I am good in PHP,PYTHON, and C# as well but the the Nigerians view this open sources guys as doll chaps but i want my friends in the house to know that time will come when there will be an Open source reveolution in Nigeria and majority of these companies that shun open source will embrace when the look at what they have to pay as licence to get a single software.Well in the main time it is still good to get your fingers burned on both paltform.

One balmy Tuesday morning i sat talking with a friend at Uniben when suddenly my mobile phone beeped. i looked at the screen it was a Lagos land line cos' i saw the Lagos land line extension. I picked the call and there came a greeting to which i responded. The husky voice asked me if i were the one that applied for the post of web programming in their company, i said yes. Then came the series of questions that made me really wonder why most company in Nigeria prefer Dotnet programmers than otherwise.
My caller asked me if i was good in SQL I told him that i was good in MySQL, he said 'No we are looking for SQL scripters'. I personally know that SQLs generally whether MySQL or MSSQL have the same syntax except for some minor differences and you could convert one to another using pre-made tools. Secondly he asked me what programming language i use i told him either python or php; he said 'No we are looking for Dotnet programming C# or VB'. Now i could use C# but because he was like I do not want anything beside microsoft platforms, anyway we would get back to you ' and that was it.
So coders of all languages in the house, i ask you this one question for the benefit of those who are yet to stand where we are standing now, should we for the fact that majority of Nigerian sites run on asp or aspx, limit ourselves to just learning the Dotnet technology or should we learn both Dotnet technology and the opensource technology?

It would be share madness to try to learn both technologies and to make matters worst some companies require you to have mix of these technologies and yet the give you chicken feed in the name of salary.

I am glad that some of you see my view also on the monopoly that interswitch has but before we start a project like these we need to do research regarding how the entire process works and also we need to take advantage of the strengths of the programming language that are good for online processing e.g java and php preferebly , i am suggesting anyway if any body understand the process of building such i could develop a workspace for ourselves to work on and then discuss of ideas much better there.if you are interested as i am you could mail me at chris4ama@excite.com and we start off

for the sending SMS from my site, i want SMS apis

any one know where i can find an sms api free or paid

I think i have made my point for asked the house in the programming section if it would be possible for use to build our own secure online payment system and i got alot of reactions from it majority of them were negative but i strongly believe that we can still break the jinks of this monopolistics chaps who do not realize that time is changing. before paypal came out there were other e-payment system but that did not stop paypal from becoming the choice payment system

Hello nairalanders i would like to know if anyone of you coders out there know of any sms api that one can integrate into a site whether paid or free , i would like to get feedback on this

i am quite amaze that we are good in telling friends how good we are in coding and we even go all the way to show off our code, when we have a major problem staring at us (the Coders of Africa) i  would like to know if there are people who could sacrifice the time and effort just to build an online payment solution for African Countries from ground Up so that we can have our own online payment system.This i feel makes a hell lot of sense. I hear by call on all time programmers of Africa to consider this open proposal to develop an online payment system for Us By Us. i would like to here your feedback on this or does or coding ends in just making some good cash only .think about it, it is time to prove to the western comrades that we can build our own solutions when we want to

Some of us are those that have a passion for what the do, others do what the do for money or to show off their coding talent. I do what i do cos i love programming, it is an art of its own kind. Someone once said that the best people in the world are not motivated by money, it is only for settling scores, that the best guys in the world are those who are motivated by passion.
I love coding because i have come to realize that in solving human problems programmatically i find pleasure

Hello all i have been a way for a while now , but i think a programmer is an artist who, uses his imagination, i writer who writes greate code, a philosopher who believe in the possibility of what the ordinary minds thinks is impossible and most of all a warm person who views life in its very basic nature and appreciates the way things fit together.

hello i am interested my e-mail is chris4ama@excite.com

Hey man what is happening back home ,glad to hear that something is happening back home. this is AmA

You seem to forget that you are using post as the method of your post and as such you must have to capture the variables at the server like this

$sex=$_POST['sex'];
$var2=$_POST['var2'];
$var3=$_POST['var3'];

then you clean it for safe storage like this

$sex=strip_tags(trim($sex));
$var2=strip_tags(trim($var2));
$var3=strip_tags(trim($var3));

then you are on your way to storing it in the database

I was beginning to wonder what the buzz Ajax stuff meant until i started experimenting with it does the this sound new to anyone or common i seem to like the tech

I am a PHP developer and i would like to meet with my kind to solve our problems together some of us are at the foot of the mountain while others are at the middle; still others are at the top. we can help each other by solving our common problems however insignificant it may seem

Hello Fellas i happen to be the newest member in the room and i hope to have fun with the respected members of this room i am of them that do a lot of if() then anyway. i would look forward to learning from the room as well as contributing to the room. i am an advocate of open source tech thanks alot nice day all

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