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unitee2011:
yap pls drop your contact, am serious about the business, I will give you call.........

09081552310... please text me My phone don't receive calls because of so many creeps out there

unitee2011:
I still need someone to create the java phones apps for the site

Please contact me on admin@fincoapps.com.

When you say Java phones, do you mean like Old Nokia and Old BlackBerry devices included ?

manando:
People I need help I've got a web based
application I've created actually it for chat so
I wanna compile it but I want it to
accommodate every smart phone including
blackberries is there a web based compiler
similar to that of phonegap build if so what it
name or if you know how I can achieve this
please help
Thanks

Your best bet is Phonegap. What I can say is: You can't use Phonegap for phones like Nokia s40 or s60.... but if you are targeting the Major mobile smartphone OS i.e
BlackBerry (My specialty)
Android
IOS
Windows phone

Then Phonegap is good

larisoft:
The second method is genius! But someone like me might think "writing a review" still too time consuming . However, I would respond fast to just "Rate this app" without having to comment on why I rated it the way I did.

LOL thanks. I also find it time consuming

I just published a post on how to get more positive reviews on Appstores. You can read it on my blog from this link http://fincoapps.com/how-to-get-more-positive-review-on-your-apps-on-appstores/

Please share your thoughts

larisoft:
Lol... Thanks so much for reading , fincoApps. You are one of those guys I usually think of as "seen it all, done it all" on this platform.

Lol you welcome...

And I wish I could say the same.... some others has gone as far as editing the firmware of BlackBerry

haconjy:
your template, your content must not all be pictures or infograph oriented, not more than 300 words for each content or post, and also what again summarize all...

Not more than 300 words ?
Lol that's so ridiculous

resultcase:
The funniest comment I've come across for a very long time.

Wordpress is the best nd most flexible CMS out there, drop ur issues let the community assist.

For some reasons, Nigerians are scared to ask questions....drop ur issues let the community assist.

Ynaira:
Hi Guys,

I opened a news blog, initially the site loading time was 6secs, but it increased to 15.75sec.

i asked my programmer, he said i should reduce my posts to 10 per day, but not comfortable with that.

He also said, the speed can improve if i begin to pay $30-$50 per month.
Abegi kilode, is this what every blog that have 4secs speed pay monthly.

I need your advice.

Lol, be very careful with that programmer...
Please share the link here

Here are somethings you can do....
Make sure your host is fast
Download an effective caching plugin
Use a plugin to optimize the WordPress database
Use a plugin to optimize all images cause that's one of the main things that slows down loading
Disable all plugins and see if the load time improves. If it does, then it could be a plugin (I've seen alot of such cases)

You can email me so we can check it out together

larisoft:
By sharing this; I by no means claim to ‘ have arrived’. We are all learning; but having crossed the 10,000 users milestone; I thought it nice to share the mistakes made in the process.

My first app on google playstore was GP Calculator. It has 16 flavors now for 16 Universities in Nigeria, and has a version that works for all polytechnics in Nigeria. The app according to google analytics has attained 10000+ downloads (all flavors). These are some of the things I wish I knew before making this app. As always, my target audience are newbies.

Making an app without planning how to market it is a waste of one’s effort.

After learning the basics of java back in late 2012; I delved right in to create something I thought students really needed: an app that will help them track their GPA. The academic frenzy in my school (UNN) was so rife that I imagined that once people heard that its about calculating GPA, they would freeze google playstore for hours in their rush to download my app.

As it turned out, a day went by,.. a week...2 weeks passed and no one had downloaded my app. It was just sitting there. I felt awful. I had spent all this time creating what no one wanted.
However, a popular school blogger back then whom I was friends with, because we both loved tech learned of this app, and published it on his blog. Within a week; almost everyone had the app! It was amazing!

This would never have happened if the blogger had not published it.


The no of downloads my app has on playstore is misleading as far as Nigeria is concerned. To know the Real No of Users you have, use google app analytics!

After some time, I could practically see my app in every phone I handled and was receiving fan mails like kilode. Yet; google playstore said I had only 125 downloads.

This confused me; until I realized that Nigerians RARELY download their apps from playstore. The likeliest way they get apps is through flashshare or xender. Thus, the no of downloads we see on playstore is just the number of people that directly downloaded the app from playstore. All the guys that got it from flash share go unreported.

With Google analytics though, I could see the no of unique users I had and how much time they spent in the app, as well as how frequently they used the app. My findings were quite disappointing which brings us to the next heading.

Making an app that will be used only once or twice in a year is not very profitable:
Having attained over 10,000 installations; I believed the time was ripe to start monetizing my app. The surest way to do this was to put ads. There was a problem though; people used the app only once in 6 months (each semester). This means that the ads I placed will be displayed just twice in a year to each user.

According to google adsense, I need 1000 impressions to earn 1 dollar. Poor me, right?

I concluded that whatever app I was going to make next would have to be one that engages users at least every day.

There is no perfection in app development and so; I will always have to update:
I spent so much time (about a month after the app was ready) fine tunning my app to what I thought was perfection before initial release in 2012. I added a lot of unrelated features, and kept changing colors, hoping it would look more beautiful. After all my efforts, It still turned out to be woefully flawed up on till I got user response, and amended the app to look and feel more like what the users desired.

Thinking about it now; I should have just released the app and patiently corrected it later after the user had tasted it.

To newbie programmers out there; once your app does the core thing it is supposed to do; RELEASE IT! Don’t bother adding features upon features until you have heard from the user. I also wish senior devs whom the newbies look to for correction would be more encouraging than devastating when reviewing apps made by junior devs..


Its unfortunate that once a newbie releases an app and shows off his/her pride on a programmers platform; everyone rushes to tear him/her down neglecting the purpose the app was made in the first place. This is wrong. Am grateful I did not experience it.

Well; thats it. To see GP Calculator for your school: below are the links.

Abia State University (ABSU):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.larry.universitiesgpcalculator.absu

Anambra State University (ANSU):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.larry.universitiesgpcalculator.ansu

Ebonyi State University (EBSU):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.larry.universitiesgpcalculator.ebsu

Enugu State University (ESUT):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.larry.universitiesgpcalculator.esut

Ekiti State University (EKSU):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.larry.universitiesgpcalculator.eksu

Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.larry.universitiesgpcalculator.futo

Obafemi Awolowo University:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.larry.universitiesgpcalculator.oau

University of Benin(UNIBEN):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.larry.universitiesgpcalculator.uniben

University of Lagos (UNILAG):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.larry.universitiesgpcalculator.unilag

University of Illorin (UNILORIN):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.larry.universitiesgpcalculator.unilorin

University of Portharcourt (UNIPORT):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.larry.universitiesgpcalculator.uniport

University of Uyo (UNIUYO):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.larry.universitiesgpcalculator.uniuyo

Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.larry.universitiesgpcalculator.unizik

Imo State University (IMSU):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.larry.universitiesgpcalculator.imsu

Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.larry.universitiesgpcalculator.lautech

Ondo State University of Science and Technology (OSUSTECH):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.larry.universitiesgpcalculator.osustech

Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.larry.universitiesgpcalculator.rivers

Taraba State University (TASU):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.larry.universitiesgpcalculator.tasu

Have any mistakes you made developing your first app? please share in the comments section

Source: http://larisoftng..com

LOL I understand how you feel about the marketing aspect and that is why till this minute, I still create apps for both BlackBerry Java phones and BlackBerry10 phones. As dead as BlackBerry might seem.... it has really helped to make my app Pin Pals popular.

Like right from day 1, it started with 150+ downloads per day
Then improved to 300 per day
And when thy featured it (for free) it climbed to an amazing 2k - 4k per day....

Bottom line is Blackberry has helped my life

larisoft:
from what he says, I deduce he needs an app he believes is "large". My solution? build something he can keep expanding on and it won't tear apart. that's the major feature in apps like snapchat. Those asking for dedicated servers...cloud nko? why waste time hacking away at servers which is just a utility.

Well I get your point but I still think this op guy should come and clarify exactly what he needs.

I might ask a Phonegap developer to create an app for me "with a quality like" Access bank app. This doesn't mean I want a banking app at all..... It just really means I want a Phoneggap app that is as smooth, clean and responsive as Access bank app.

dhtml18:
Some time back, a woman loved a site i built for my client -> got my contact through the client. Went through a lot of trouble to reach me.
She told me she wanted a website like that of my client, i don dey rejoice. When i billed her like this - she just stopped talking to me.
Before i now found out that what she wanted was very much simpler than what i had in mind.
@the same time, it has happened to me the other way round before - where i undercharged and did slavery work for small money. . . .

hahahahaha.... well that's why I don't make a single quote until I see the brief from the client

Sign me up for this

I don't really get.... the OP said the app should have the QUALITY of Instagram

Most people here makes it sound like the OP wants the FEATURES of Instagram.... @op, what exactly do you want ?

An app like Instagram (As in features)
or
An app with good quality just like Instagram with different features ?

larisoft:
My brother, it is usually a mistake to release an app on two distinct platforms at once. You should normally release on one platform, watch user reaction, modify, and then make for the other platform.

My company exclusively handles big projects like this where architecture, and scalability are critical and we can help you make an app like this for 200,000 Naira or more, depending on the features you desire.

My email is larypetero@gmail.com if you are interested in working with me.

Lol you don't even know what the app is about yet and you automatically assume architecture and scalability are critical....

joey150:
abeg start with 2d.

I agree... @op start with 2D

If you agree, you can look at processing.... I can help you with that cause I'm pretty good at that

paranorman:
I got memory problem with windows 10.
'system ' process eats up my ram; up to 2gig sometimes making my system lame!

See attached shots

Need help.

Check this post out http://lifehacker.com/why-is-windows-10s-system-process-using-so-much-ram-1725076206

Was wondering the same thing until I found it..... For my, it doesn't affect the performance most likely because of my laptop config

Febup:
^^^ To back up your point. Licensing is even higher than a certificate. The advantage of licensing for the general public is that if you give a project to a programmer or team of programmers, after the project has been completed, if the application does not do what it is expected to do properly, now it will cost the owner money to get the application rewritten or the application might even put the public at risk.

But using a licensed programmer means he has a professional body his is answerable to if his or her client are not happy with their work and they make a complaint to that professional body.

Thanks mehn. I'm amazed with the way you explained this....

I just TOTALLY forgot this point

Raypawer:
It can Never be a lame reason, remember your in nigeria, not as if there is no job, there are job openings, so what am i saying forget that thing, right now if i can find who will deliver i will only ask abt you educational background later. We are in Nigeria bro, dont trust cert... Am not saying that you should go about looking for drop outs, i understand you might need a graduate for some reasons, but productivity is the utmost here..

You can set a standard or a kind of programming test for those you want to employ, both IQ test, communication skills, try to interact with them to see how good they are but PRODUCTIVITY should be the utmost. Licence could only work outside the country, but fortunatly, outside the country the don't care about that...

The bottom line is this: Certificates set a standard....

There might be corruption, but do you know how the world would be like if there was nothing like certificate ?

Try this:
Setup a small school... maybe secondary school and just employ random teachers just because they passed your tests.... let's see how the products of the school would be compared to a school where standards are taken seriously

talk2hb1:
You can easily develop a WebRTC system with it
@dhtml|18
Nice Job

hmmm if he doesn't know about sockets, I really doubt he'll know about WebRTC

dhtml18:
And he still did not correct the topic still - data programming - what the heck

Exactly... I'm more disappointed about the fact that he didn't correct it.

And how can someone searching for help be this rude

Fulaman198:
a /24 network means you have a maximum of 254 hosts with 1 network address and 1 broadcast address. So for Network A 10.10.10.0/24, the host range would be 10.10.10.1 - 10.10.10.254, the broadcast address would be 10.10.10.255 and the network address would be 10.10.10.0. The same thing is also applied to Network B: 11.11.11.0/24. The host range would be 11.11.11.1 - 11.11.11.254 and the broadcast address would be 11.11.11.255 with the network address being 11.11.11.0.

Router interfaces typically are the first IP address in the host range (default gateway) but honestly can be set to anything in your host range. If were designing this WAN, I would set the router's IP address to 10.10.10.1 for Network A and the Router for Network B to 11.11.11.1.

For a network to support 6 interfaces, can you please be more specific? Do you mean 6 hosts? or 6 router interfaces per router.

A routing table for router A can be seen in many ways depending on your router. If it is a cisco router, type ip route at the command line. How do you plan on configuring the routers to talk to one another? What routing protocol(s) will you use. Remember Directly connected routes have highest priority followed by static IP routes, then I believe EIGRP with an admin distance of 90 and OSPF with an admin distance of 110. Thus EIGRP takes precedence over OSPF. Let me know if you need more details thanks.

Wow Niceeee

leeman009:
Im starting to delve deeper into networking and trying to find a good forum for such a topic to get help and guidance, Please I need further quidance from the experts on the following questions.

An internetwork consisting of four networks interconnected by routers.
Network A has address 10.10.10.0/24 and Network B 11.11.11.0/24. Network C and D are subnets of 12.12.12.0/24 that are
each capable of supporting a maximum of six interfaces.
Network A and Network D each have one host attached, Host A and Host D respectively
(not shown).

1)What is the suitable IP addresses for Host A, R1’s interfaces and R2’s
interface on Network B.
2)What is the suitable network addresses for Network C and Network D.
3)What is the a suitable IP address, default gateway and network mask for Host
4)What is the routing table for R1 showing the entries required to reach a host on any of the attached networks (R1 is not permitted to have a default gateway)
[note: the table should show destination, mask and next hop for each entry. Assign any additional IP addresses required].
5)Explain the routing decisions that enable a ping and its response to be sent between Host A and Host

Some of these questions require calculations that I'm not ready to do, at least not on Nairaland. But you are dealing with class C addresses.... which means the subnet mask would be 255.255.255.0.

Also, the default gateway is always the address of that router....

dhtml18:
^^^and yet, the stuff is already dragging. . . .and cant find a common goat

I'm beginning to think you want to start rareing goats

CodeHouse:
Op, how long do you intend to get the engine functional, I still could not make anything off it, take dhtml criticism has a motivator, you have created up to 3 threads on this search engine and one of it is misleading as you gave us the impression that it is now done with, yet nothing to hold on to.

Kindly focus on the project's functionality starting with the backend algo, I see you looking at the area of advertisement and how you will make money from it rather than getting started on the real task at hand.

Your project is doable, keep at it even though I agree with dhtml, as it would take you time personally and it is funny how if google does not index your site, it might never show up anywhere, that is the real power my friend.

Lol why can't you guys forget about the advert he put there... it does not mean he's after money at all.... be 100% ready.

And Google is not the only guarantee of your site getting popular

guru01:
Do not despise small beginning. You can't make me give up, with God all things are possible.

Hmmm dude, you know I have been supporting you since... but I really think you should set up a real strong business plan capable of making your search engine big and also improve on the user experience.... don't just leave it up to God and expect magic/miracle.

That's why Nigerians hardly go far in things like technology and sports... when the situation is hopeless, that's when you hear (with God, all things are possible).

God bless the works of our hands. Let the works of your hand be good enough

Raypawer:
I prefer my profile speak for me than licence, as in nigeria cert is more honoured than skills, so if u bring in lincencing, it will be another avenue for some unskilled guys to pose as programmers. I think school cert(B.Eng) is enough.. after all most of the top guys making it out there in ict are school drop out, so what are you saying?

That's right but it's still a lame reason. If you think it's valid, then licensing for other professions should as well be scraped.

Licensing has a way of setting minimum standards of knowledge so even if the person is not as skilled, there's still that slight experience and literacy in the field.

I'm about to start a training school and of course I'm never going to employ school dropouts as lecturers regardless of their skill.... too degrading

Knownpal:
Licensing kills creativity and welcomes corruption, because I anybody can talk to one of these god-fathers, gives out a cert and the fellow wey no sabi programming go dy collect big contracts which will certainly be feeding the God-father later.

In short, no Sir.

True but that should not stop it. If it should then they better get rid of the word "license"

ITbomb:
Someone typed in a search in Google and it shows up this page and he got the answers he wants , that is why we need questions like this every time.

Where do you think Google gets all the answers, from posts and articles written by people on different platform. I see people that says ask Google as being lazy, for me I like diverse opinion especially after reading the dictionary definitions and Google alone cannot give me that

So trueee

point5:
In 9ja no deference :one person can do the job to make others jobless...but the deference is clear

You are right. But you still cannot compare a dedicated designer to someone who has significant knowledge of the 2.... I understood the difference when I was learning css in lynda

dhtml18:
The two are interchangeable, but most of the time:
web design: the actual process of designing a website by a professional - for example, I am a web designer so i actually designed websites like my www.Nairaland.com

web development: usually means a contractor who collects a web design job but may not necessarily do the design - may outsource it to someone else.

But in reality, the two terms are used interchangeably.

I'm gonna have to disagree with you(respectfully of course).

Web designers are the frontend and interface designers. The ones that design the amazing html and flash templates we see on websites that sell templates.

Web developers are the backend guys that deal with mainly backend functionalities or exposing APIs etc