₦airaland Forum

Mumu poster. "Aunty, they gave me F9 in Matts."

Tight stuff! Shouldn't this be in entertainment, mods?

I don't see how. After all, the request is made from the client, i.e. the people going to YOUR clients' websites.

It seems you're only checking the Referer header. Not good enough.
yawa-ti-de is right, you should probably give them some access code. What you could do is have a some kind of free limit (maybe 2000 views a day for each free access code, whatever you can afford to serve). If you go over this limit, you have to pay. This way, you're offering a free public service for low-end users, but the guys who hammer your servers have to pay.

I need someone to help me create/edit a Google map. The job basically involves tracing map outlines and shouldn't take more than a day.
Contact me at googlemaps@places.com.ng

Never mind

Rubbish!  

DaRapture:
The US gas prices are set in gallons. 1Gallon is = to 3 3/4 Liters. The US average for gas/petro is about $3.30 right now. So that means that its only about 88 cents per Liter, which is like 88 Naira per liter.

^^^
@DaRapture Don't be silly.

I need five people for data entry positions in Abuja starting tomorrow.
You need to have a laptop and how much you earn depends on how fast you can enter the data.
Please send an email to dataentry@places.com.ng
Thanks.

I need five people for data entry positions in Abuja starting tomorrow.
You need to have a laptop and how much you earn depends on how fast you can enter the data.
Please send an email to dataentry@places.com.ng
Thanks.

EDIT: Thank you for your emails. Unfortunately the positions are no longer available (this was advertised on December 13, 2011!).

I need five people for data entry positions in Abuja starting tomorrow.
You need to have a laptop and how much you earn depends on how fast you can enter the data.
Please send an email to dataentry@places.com.ng
Thanks.

Can you accept people different from you?
Does posting a link work here http://facebook.com ?

Thanks everyone.

KINGwax:
jajad may be seun and seun may be jajad. It all makes sense cos he registered after the announcement of the contest and posted only for d contest and won. Wouldn't be suprised if he claimed his price back. It's business!

₦ Done. What next?

Seun:
Not Bad. Good work!

More things to look at:
- Contrary to popular opinion online, the naira sign is actually the unicode character ₦ and not N.
- The auction mechanism doesn't seem to be perfected yet. An auction that was supposed
to expire in 1 minute rolled back to 23 hours 59 minutes after and has remained open since!!

There was a problem with the date display. It's already been fixed. ₦ coming right up.

Seun:
Can you also include Cross-Site-Request-Forgery protection so third parties can't log users out or trick them into performing other unintended actions on the site?

Please inspect. Basic CSRF protection implemented.

Seun:
Nice work. Things seem really nice now. Well done!

Can you indicate the proper currency units ($ or ₦) everywhere in the user interface where applicable?

Thank you. Sure.

Seun:
Can you also include Cross-Site-Request-Forgery protection so third parties can't log users out or trick them into performing other unintended actions on the site?

Ahh. I see.

ekt_bear:
Is bootstrap what people use nowadays? It used to be Blueprint and 960.gs, no?

Jajad, do you also know ruby on rails? If so, I'll get in touch with you.

Plese do.

Seun:
Email address verification, of course, as indicated in the original spec.

Done

Seun:
:-)

Can you also fix the date/time system so it works with relative time? when setting up an auction, you should be able to say I want the auction to be open for 3 days or 5 hours or 8 minutes. when viewing an auction, you should be able to see whether the auction ends in 2 days or 7 hours or 4 minutes.

Done

Seun:
password hashing would be good too. Love your use of Twitter Bootstrap.

Done

Any more issues?

yamakuza:
kudos! Great work there!

1. Please put the url in your signature to make it easier to reach.

2. Also, mind putting contact details on your profile for those who have jobs to outsource?

3. Are you a Nigerian? In Nigeria?

Brb!

1. Done
2. Done, outsource away.
3. Yes and yes.

Seun:
password hashing would be good too. Love your use of Twitter Bootstrap.

Yes it would.
It's pretty, isn't it.

Seun:
:-)

Can you also fix the date/time system so it works with relative time? when setting up an auction, you should be able to say I want the auction to be open for 3 days or 5 hours or 8 minutes. when viewing an auction, you should be able to see whether the auction ends in 2 days or 7 hours or 4 minutes.

I suppose so,

Seun:
Email address verification, of course, as indicated in the original spec.

Ok sir.
*Mumbles under breath*

@Seun: Changes have been made to allow the CBN account to load dollars and withdraw naira. Normal accounts can do the opposite.
Any other requests?

@Everyone else, comments and suggestions please?

@Seun All naira from winning bids now go to the account of the CBN governor. (If only SLS was that lucky!)
THe cbngov account is also unable to make bids.

His account is cbngov@cbn.gov, password cbn.
No one else can create auctions now.

*Smacks head*
I actually just saw the req for the governor account. Should be up pronto.

Haha. For now anyone can create an auction. What capabilities would you like his account to have, apart from creating an auction? Currently, there's a limitless supply of dollars for sale.

Nature has taken its course. Now those genes (mental illness) cannot be passed on. Alleluia! 

I've uploaded the code on the net. It can be tested here.
PLEASE remember it is only proof-of-concept. Very little error handling/validation is built in. You can break it!
Everyone, your suggestions on how I can improve it (so I can win Seun's money) are very welcome.

It bruises easily, so be gentle . . . 

Wow. This was fun!
@Seun. I've made several changes. Please checkout the code again. Thanks.

Oops sorry! Forgot to put a link on the homepage. Please use /createauction. I'm looking for a nice datetime javascript picker. Please enter the date/time in this format YYYY-MM-DDTMM:SSZ e.g. 2011-11-10T20:25Z.
As you can see, it's still very much in progress.

I will try to put it up someplace. Installing MySQL 5.5 on a Linux box might be sticky though.

Please take a look. Any thoughts?