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I will rather allow US government to intercept my data than to think that Snowden is a hero. Snowden is a traitor and US government means well for its citizens.

How I went to India? I entered Emirates Airlines and landed in India

Well, I applied to do a Bsc.IT at Mahatma Gandhi University and an invitation letter was sent to me and I processed for Indian Visa at Indian High Commission Abuja and then left Nigeria for New Delhi. When you are ready to come, I can offer you all the necessary assistance you will need.

If you really will like to waste your money, then enroll in any NIIT in Nigeria. I tell you, niit has NOTHING to offer you. But you will not know this until you pay and enroll. It's better you concentrate on your course at FUTO. When you are done and you want to really switch to software development and you have little money, you can come over to India and study. You can either study in a university like Mahatma Gandhi University or you study at the main campus of Aptech or NIIT. I study in India and I live close to NIIT main campus at South Extension part 1, New Delhi. Forget about those aptech and niit in nigeria. They are complete crap. Look I studied at NIIT Asaba and Onitsha and Aptech Mokola Ibadan. And I can authoritatively tell you that they are rubbish. My younger brother studied civil engineering. He's doing NYSC now at bayelsa. He will be coming here next year to do MCA (Masters of Computer Application), which has software development as one of the subjects.

I will advice you to run away from niit. They have absolutely nothing to offer you. Niit is a corporate scam duping nigerians of their hard-earned money. I was a victim of their scam. I enrolled for web design training. That was some years back. They could not teach simple html, the tutors were just fumbling and doing trial and error. If you want to learn software engineering, I advice you to finish your school at FUTO and then come to India and do Masters in Software Development since you are doing Bsc in computer science already.

NIIT Nigeria is a sham. It's just a franchise. They have NOTHING to offer.

What advise do you need again since you said that java can be used to program for almost all OS compared to vb? That means java is somehow better than the vb you are learning. Then go for java.

Any of them can give you a placement in the labour market.
Any of them can position you to create jobs in the labour market.
It all depends where your passion lies.
I advice you take out time to do a thorough research and read about each of them and then look inside you and find out the one you believe fits your personality. All of them are great courses. If after reading about all them and you are not satisfied to choose any of them, then turn down the scholarship offer.

^^You are indeed a bystander. And so u have no idea of what you are talking about. The things I listed, did I say they are skills? Did I say if you are speaking at conferences that you are more skillful than every web developer. Dont make blind argument.

I said that out of the list of achievements, every web developer must achiever at least 3. As long as you are in this for life, you will end up achieving even more than three. Nobody will even compel you. You will push yourself to achieve some of those things. If you know your game and you contribute to the community, you will be asked to come and speak in a conference.

But if a web developer did not achieve any of them, he's not a failure. It's just that he did not achieve any of the ten achievements listed, which means he in one way or another achieved other things that are not listed. The list is not exhaustive.

Good. It's just that we want you to know that you are: https://www.nairaland.com/howardriddle and https://www.nairaland.com/rudolfbane

howardriddle: Lol. trust me i wanted to make a new post until i discovered another account was already championing my cause. I know Rbane personally and he was the one who told me i was covered already. I introduced him to Nl in the first place and we are in the same school using the same free Isp. You can beef and hate all you can. I am 18 and dazall!! If you like send hired killers. I even pitched this idea to seun in Febuary. I told him my age et all. Am a student of Igbinedion University(if you know what that means, so i ain't trying to scam myslf out of poverty) studying law but wanted to study engineering. So you see. I normally have a lot of respect for you buts that by the way. I study labour law and am not a fool for choosing it if am not passionate about Labour in Nigeria. So please. You just killed the chances of my story ever making it on Fp. I am not elvis oo. I will find you and destroy you if you disturb me again. Be warned troll.

The only thing I can tell you is that you are the OP. Simple. You are talking about ip address so that if your ip is checked and matched with the OP, you will say that you told us that both of you use same ip from same school. Old story. Look, you are the OP. Even if you are 18 years, what does that mean? There are boys younger than you that have achieved a lot. You are studying at Igbenedion University? And you want a standing ovation? Well, if not that it will be a complete childishness, I will reel out my antecedents to you. But let's forget it. Where we studied and the course we studied have nothing to do with this thread.

Here is my point. Am not against your startup. But you need to know that you cannot trick some of us.

Your friend was introduced to NL. He saw an article written about your startup. He saw the article before you because techmoran did not inform you on time that they have published your story. He quickly signed up and to reward you for introducing him to NL, he created two threads in webmasters and programming sections for you. You later saw the article on techmoran and you did not create a thread immediately, but you first informed your friend that you want to post the article on NL, he then told you that he has covered you. Just imagine the scenario and then listen to yourself again.

Story.

^^^The true is that if one thinks he's smart, he may end up finding out that he's just a f0ol.

Then that is where I come in. There must be some level of sanity here. He should have started by saying that this is his startup and that he got mentioned on techmoran and that we should check it out. It's not telling us that he culled it from techmoran and that he's new here. His lies will not solve anything. We have a way of knowing who is who. Even when you create a thread and then use another account to reply yourself, we have a way of knowing.

He has talked about this yolpe thing in this account: https://www.nairaland.com/howardriddle, and he has not stopped operating the account. It's even a sin to have two accounts on Nairaland. So he should even be banned for trying to spam on us.

You said you will change your age if it will take you out of poverty. No sir. It will deep you more into poverty. Age falsification has a way of disgracing someone and take off opportunities from him. Why will I say am 16 years just to score a useless point.

^^^Well you might be wrong. Why must he create a new account to post his startup and claim that he culled it from techmoran?

@OP, sorry but you are not new here. You just created this new account to post this and make front page. If you make front page, good for you. But I want you to know that you are: https://www.nairaland.com/howardriddle. And you are probably not 18 years old. You know that Nigerians or humans are vulnerable whenever they see that a teenager has developed something. But I dont see what is ground-breaking in what you are claiming to have done. I mean this is what jobberman has done already and they even have a mobile app for it. You have nothing new to offer. It's just a bunch of php script that will allow people to post their cv and search for jobs. The site is even in 403 Forbidden right now.

You claimed to be new, and the only thread you quickly created in webmasters and programming sections was this thread. Look, you are the owner of yolpe.com. You just pitched on those boys at techmoran to write that thing for you and then you copied, created a new account and pasted the stuff here. Your name is Howard Izundu. So this is your main Nairaland account: https://www.nairaland.com/howardriddle. It would have been honourable to post this as update using your main account. People that have read about your former post about your yolpe.com will now know that you got a mention in a blog or you paid techmoran to write about you. Whatever. But because you wanted to trick the moderators, you created a new account to post about your 18 years old startup stuff. When you posted this under this account https://www.nairaland.com/howardriddle you never said you are 18 years.

@OP, sorry but you are not new here. You just created this new account to post this and make front page. If you make front page, good for you. But I want you to know that you are: https://www.nairaland.com/howardriddle. And you are probably not 18 years old. You know that Nigerians or humans are vulnerable whenever they see that a teenager has developed something. But I dont see what is ground-breaking in what you are claiming to have done. I mean this is what jobberman has done already and they even have a mobile app for it. You have nothing new to offer. It's just a bunch of php script that will allow people to post their cv and search for jobs. The site is even in 403 Forbidden right now.

You claimed to be new, and the only thread you quickly created in webmasters and programming sections was this thread. You didnt even introduce yourself in the "Webmasters Introduce Yourself thread." Look, you are the owner of yolpe.com. You just pitched on those boys at techmoran to write that thing for you and then you copied, created a new account and pasted the stuff here. Your name is Howard Izundu. So this is your main Nairaland account: https://www.nairaland.com/howardriddle. It would have been honourable to post this as update using your main account. People that have read about your former post about your yolpe.com will now know that you got a mention in a blog or you paid techmoran to write about you. Whatever. But because you wanted to trick the moderators, you created a new account to post about your 18 years old startup stuff. When you posted this under this account https://www.nairaland.com/howardriddle you never said you are 18 years.

afridigit: Nice list, but i tell you, your grand children will help you complete it.

Don't be myopic brother. Who says am pursuing to achieve all of them? Even if one is to achieve all of these, who says he can't achieve them in his life's time?

You are: https://www.nairaland.com/howardriddle
You talked about this sometime in May.
Now you are claiming to be 18 years because you want to take advantage of teen age to make front page by all means and create a buzz for your yolpe.com.

You just opened this account: https://www.nairaland.com/rudolfbane today and created this thread in Webmasters and Programming sections.

Well, if the pitch works for you, good. I am not even against it making front page, just that it's good for you to know that there are people keeping tabs of things going on here.

It's called mega drop-drown menu. It's actually simple and tricky to achieve. If you know how html nested list works and css relative and absolute positioning, you can achieve it. Only css can do it, but if you want the drop down to be smooth, you can add jquery to it. Like here: http://www.ctrlshiftstudios.com/school

You can study the code of this one: http://www.ctrlshiftstudios.com/mega-drop-down-menu and see if you can play around with the code and use it.

You can locate the image from your cpanel.

Let me break these things up for us to understand.

1. Develop a robust web application that will continue to make you money for years.
Yes, if you are an entrepreneur or just a freelancer or even an employee, you can develop a robust web application that will be a goldmine for years. Applications like: http://www.freshbooks.com and http://www.wufoo.com and https://www.heroku.com

2. Be invited to speak at a web design conference in America or Europe or host one in Africa.
Yes, it's an achievement. When you are known in the web design and development industry as someone that has something to offer, and you are invited to share your experiences and expertise in a conference, then you have reached a certain peak in this industry. When I said America or Europe, it's because they are leading in this industry. It will be a great honour and achievement to speak at conferences like: http://www.convergese.com and http://www.aneventapart.com and http://www.takeoffconf.com and http://www.thenextweb.com/conference Or you host one in Africa and bring down some of these great guys in this industry to speak.

3. Develop an opensource web application that will be used widely.
Yes, if you do number 1 and you don't want to make money from it, then you can make it an opensource. It's an achievement.

4. Write a ground-breaking book on the art of web design and development.
There are tons of books on subjects of web design and development out there. Yet, people are still writing books on this industry. Why? Because this industry keeps evolving. If you reach certain level in your career, and you think you can write a ground-breaking book on any subject in web design and development and you have company like sitepoint.com to publish it, then you have really achieved something.

5. Develop at least 50 wordpress or drupal or joomla or expressionengine themes and make them available for download.
Yes, you can develop themes for these CMSs from scratch and make them available for download. The themes will be elegant and responsive. You will just put them up for free download. That is a great achievement.

6. Develop a new framework of any language you are proficient in.
Yes, you can develop a php framework that has something new and spectacular to offer, which php frameworks on ground dont offer. You can develop a ruby framework. You can develop another javascript framework.

7. Develop a widely used plugin for Wordpress or any other CMS.
There are tons of plugins for CMSs especially WP. But if you think deeply and check well, you may discover that there are plugins still needed to be developed. If you can find out and actually develop one and it's widely used, you have ended up achieving something.

8. Develop an opensource application that will force Nigerian government to honour you. Like developing a language translation application for English to Hausa or Igbo or Yoruba or Nupe. And then Hausa to Yoruba, Hausa to Igbo, Igbo to Yoruba, Igbo to Hausa, Yoruba to Hausa, Yoruba to Igbo and so on.
This is a daunting task. This is not just an achievement, but a milestone achievement. It will take time and resources. But if you can do it, you will never be forgotten. That is a great achievement. You will be given an OON.

9. Develop a comprehensive quality video tutorial from html to advanced php and provide it for free download. Or be doing a weekly podcast or screencast on web design tips.
Yes. if you can develop a quality video tutorial on web developmet or start a weekly podcast like: http://shoptalkshow.com and http://boagworld.com/show or a weekly screencast like: http://www.youtube.com/gotreehouse, then you have really achieved something.

10. Build a web developers centre where developers can come together and brainstorm and relax.
This will be a resource and brainstorming center. It will have high speed Internet connection. It will have libary full of programming books and videos. It's a great achievement if you can do it.

Sorry. I didn't mean employees. I mean entrepreneurs. Yet, even as an employee, you must achieve at least one of the achievements. Check the list again. But if you are an entrepreneur like me, then you must achieve at least 3. So when I said 3, I didnt mean both employees and entrepreneurs. Yet I didn't say every web developer must achieve 3. Read my post again. I said at least should. The should means that even if a web developer didn't achieve up to 3, he's still an achiever.

Most people that work in facebook and microsoft and google and so on have a way of giving back to the community. Check http://www.kirupa.com. He's an Indian that works with Microsoft. He has written a book on programming. The website is full of tons of tutorials. He has achieved more than one of the achievements listed above. He has authored a book and he has developed a robust tutorial website.

So even if you are an employee, which is not a bad thing because everybody will not have to be an entrepreneur, you must find a way of giving back to the community. If you check the achievements, one or none is self-centered. Most of them will not even make the developer any income, but he will end up changing lives in this industry.

Web Application Development is a skill. C++, python and php are languages or tools you have. If someone ask you what is your skill, you cant say my skill is php. You will say web development. When he asks you the platform you use, you can then say php. What is skill? Skill is an ability and capacity acquired through deliberate, systematic, and sustained effort and training. However, I understand that tools or languages go hand in hand with what you do with the tools. You are web application developer that uses php or python. So one can say to be skilled in web development or mobile development. One can also be said to be skilled in php or python.

If you are not in this industry for life, you may not worry yourself achieving any of the achievements. But if you are in this, I tell you, you must achieve at least three from this list. Nobody will even push you. You will see it as a necessity to give back to the community and touch lives. Somebody like Chris Coyier who created http://www.codepen.io and the Gregg Pollack who created http://www.codeschool.com are doing these things for fun, yet these applications are great achievements.

So get my point, I am not saying that if every web developer did not achieve the things on the list, he will be seen as a failure. Far from it. But my point is if you continue in this industry, and you know your game, you will be compelled by yourself to give something robust to the web development community.

As I write this right now, somebody is figuring out how to give us another ground breaking php framework. Somebody is trying to develop another python framework. Somebody is thinking of developing a complete video tutorial on web development that will cover everything about html, css, javascript (jquery, ajax, json, angularJs), php (codeigniter, laravel), mysql, ui/ux, responsive design, and call it: WEB DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT: From Start to Finish and then offer it for free of charge or at a small fee.

People have given us awesome applications and most of them are free. Think of sass, compass, haml, node.js, backbone.js, in fact go here: http://www.javascriptoo.com and see more than 100 javascript projects that guys have developed. You can bookmark the website.

You tried. Keep learning and keep honing your skill. About the blog logo, they subtly hid it in the color.css.
Now to remove it, just do this:

1. Do your own logo in photoshop or any graphics software. Make the size to be 260px width by 97px height.

2. Save it in png format.

3. Save it with this name: site-name

4. Save it in your images folder.

Then upload and refresh and watch the magic happen.

okeyxyz: I don't need to know anything more about the poster besides the opinions he had categorically expressed in OP, which is silly to say the least. What he is saying is that any developer who does not have the same interests as himself(as listed in the OP), then such a person cannot be regarded as a genuine(if at all) web-deveoper. Like I said before: That list is a set of interests, not a set of skills. Nobody gives you a degree, a qualification or employment based on your interests, rather it is based on your skills. Your interests might make people like you but it is not the core abilities by which you are rated in any industry. This is why the list is silly.

Thank you for at least reading through my silly list.

You may notice that all over the world, any known web developer has done one or more things in the list. The list is not made up of set of skills as you said, neither is the list made up of interests. There is only one skill here: Web Application Development. If you have this SKILL, you will in one way or another in the course of your career achieve one or more of these achievements in the list. The list is made up of achievements which every web developer MUST achieve at least one. It's not a choice. As long as you are a web developer and you are in this for life, then you must one day find yourself achieving one of these. I actually thought about them carefully before posting.

Check history. Any web programmer that you know today has achieved one or more things in the list.

You can get tons of information here: http://www.ctrlshiftstudios.com/Where-To-Get-Information-Without-Referencing

If you get it from there, you will not have to reference it because it's all yours.
Good luck in your blogging career.

Just imagine.

1. Do you know that this clock was coded with pure CSS with small bit of javascript? No images.

2. Do you know that the second image was coded with pure CSS gradients? No images. No javascript. No canvas. No data URIs.

3. Do you know that the third image, which is animated progress bar was coded with pure CSS? With canvas for the noise background only.

4. Do you know that the fourth images was coded with pure CSS? No images. No javascript.

You may not be amazed if you are a pro, but I was amazed. It was done by my mentor in web design and development.

I now believe that there is more to be done on the web.

See answer here: http://www.ctrlshiftstudios.com/How-Possible-Is-It-To-Learn-Web-Designing-In-1-Week

Hahaha @yawa. Check number 5. The themes MUST be responsive.

@Greenmouse, am busy working on some things.
Like: http://www.ctrlshiftstudios.com/awesome-themes (Free and premium themes)
Like: http://www.ctrlshiftstudios.com/chat (web chatting application)

AND other ones I cant provide the links for now.

@Greenmouse, kudos.