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I can see somebody is hyper-excited.

Those that are still on are running like pirate radios. A project must be free from legal shackles to gain community-wide acceptance.

Share your experiences with music production (analog and digital). Which beat making device do you use, do you use the ogbonge Akai MPC 3000 or is it Cubase, FL Studio, Reason etc.

Which genre are you into, hip-hop, apala, juju, country, root and branches, fuji, or is it gospel.

Just about anything, me myself am just learning.

That we may have peace.

I now get it.

I suggest WAZOBIA. That reflects the collaborative nature of CMS. (The MD, CEO, Clerk, and even the gateman can work together to create a document), so it brings people together and the name WAZOBIA relay the diversity of CMS solution.

And HOW abego!! do you come across this information that amazon uses C and C++ for their backend system? Do you work for amazon? It is always a secret for companies to hind their middleware and backend technologies. You can only know their frontend, but others, wow!!! You are a genius to figure that out.

Getting those infos is no rocket science. I will give you the link to that info when i find it, ( i deleted my FF bookmark yesterday)

I want you to read these first,
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/phps-creator-rasmus-lerdorf/2
http://web.oreilly.com/news/lerdorf_0200.html
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/php_experts/rasmus_php.html
http://public.yahoo.com/~radwin/talks/yahoo-phpcon2002.htm

Companies like amazon.com etc use C and C++ for their backend.

The ultimate goal of any developer must be to use C or C++.

Something like Databases that UK banks MUST use, Software that they MUST use and other laws like that. That is because of internal and external security breach.

Do you know that most of these big software houses influence the decision of these boards and even what universities get to teach their students.

So that's no prove that they are the best.

C++ shortcomings ke. JAVA can never rival C++ anyday, anytime.

JAVA even borrowed some aspects of C++.

The .NET Framework is not open source. It is an open standard (detailed in ECWA) and based on that, different people can decide to implement it on any platform, if they so desire. So no, Mono is not in violation of any of Microsoft's copyright laws.

The lead developer (Miguel) of MONO pointed the problems out in an article i read about 2 years ago.

Here are some links that can clarify what i have said:

http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=32&thread=3631

http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-winforms-list/2004-April/000666.html

http://swpat.ffii.de/pikta/xrani/cifs/index.en.html

@SBU, do you know that it's not that so easy to stay online here in Nigeria. It's an honor for most people to be online most fo the time.

So hooking his PC to the web 24/7 is not feasible economically. He need to get a host.

LAMP is the way to go.

Linux has made this possible. Even in the setup boxes area where JAVA hoped to have a niche market, Linux rules.

MONO is having some problem because it violates M$ copyright in some way, if M$ decided to press charges MONO will be down the drain in a matter of days.

LAMP/WAMP is more than enough.

Africanboy it's as if you were reading my mind on this issue. I was about to start a thread[b] (Is JAVA dead?)[/b] when i saw this thread on the frontpage.

JAVA has really failed. Now they have J2EE, JAVA Card, Java this, JAVA that. It's performance did not match it's hype hence the horrible flop. It's development is even a part, using classes and all those AWT and widgets, they can really be a pain in the ass. Even the final interface you get are not OK at all, they look like something from old mosix window system.

JAVA death was even affirmed the day M$ stop supporting JVM on Windows XP >, now to run JAVA program you need to go and download a 64MB or so file, that's scary.

For me (although i don't use JAVA, but i know the basics of using it), JAVA is just a marketing ploy for a company (SUN) that's dying.

To date the only JAVA program i have used with some satisfaction is the Yahoo pool game, and at times it sucks.

I donot know how to write a programme, but i used java script, i mean the one that has me made already and they work fine for me. up till now i still used java script because i found it simple to use.
I think Java is still alive!

Javascript is not JAVA, Javascript is for clientside scripting while JAVA is a programming language, don't let the name confuse you.

You can always get a good webhost.

I doubt if you can get that. Hosting is relatively cheap these days. Although i can talk about Windows hosting.

Vendor locking is the worst thing anyone should avoid.

All those FUDs are nothing but marketing strategies by vendors.

How do you intend to deploy it at the end of the day. Is it going to be on the public internet or on an intranet.

I prefer PHP because it's open source and easy to learn. I used to dig ASP before since i know VB but i need something that's not going to put strains on ones pocket.

How about www.cypsol.com

@cheekee, did you bother to go through some of the posts on this thread. Instead of coming here to make uninformed Bible quoting.

Calling someone for not paying money to another mans pocket is a gravious sin. Thou shall not judge on wrong plea.

I would like people to list links of banks that uses php...

Most of the Banks I know only use ASP/JSP, I wonder why? Security issues maybe... Cry Cry

1. Alliance Leicester --- ASP
2. Nationwide --- ASP
3. Barclays Bank --JSP (Java)
4. Abby National Bank --- Servlet (java)
5. Woolwich Bank ---ASP
6. Halifax Bank ---ASP

etc. I have not seen any php for secure online Banking application. You know why? Banks do not consider open source application like php secure enough to handle ecommerce. So php advocates make note of this.

If you find any bank that uses php let me know I would start learning php as mad. PHP has its place in application development. Not that anything is wrong with php but because it is supported by open source community and php API writer may put a trapdoor in one of its API and access your critical business function, who do you sue? Open source Community or who?

But if you have security breach in ASP you can sue Microsoft equally if same happens to Java you can sue James Gosling. How about PHP? Cry Cry

I can see you are one of those anti-GNU/open source campainer.

Am coming to...

Not that am spoiling things o. But i don't see any reason for these.

Nigerian developers are in need of money, so going open source is likely to doom the IT industry growth here in Nigeria. 50% of people are in IT simply for the dough, 40% are in IT just because that the course they gave them at school. The remaining 10% are only the born hacker/geek.

Until people here are OK, no open source collabo will take off.

He can put a frame on a section of the page that will display content from other tech sites like news.com, linux.com etc.

He should remember, Google and Yahoo started on a single desktop PC with an hard drive that's less than a gig of data.

All he need to do is to jazz the site with Nigerian tech updates. I would have love to be contributing, but... where's the cheddar.

Well i don't know if you have got what you want by now (i just saw this now now), but these little PHP script will do the magic for you.

<?
$your_to ="the email adddress you wan to send your msg to"
$your_subject ="the normal subject"
$your_msg = "Whatever your want to put in your mailbox content"
$your_head = "whatever you need for your header, you can even extract the IP address sef if you track"

mail($your_to, $your_subject, $your_msg, $your_head);

echo/print "Your messages has been sent to: $your_to".

?>

Save this script as mymailer.php, save this on the server (your normal directory)

You can jazz it up the way you want by putting up a fancy form and linking the form action to the mymailer.php.

He better go the PHP/MySql way, it's really really faster to learn.

The screenshot is cool.

Can you explain some of the technology (for the backend) involved in this project.

This is really good. Anybody that want to learn must also be ready to Google like there's no 2morow.

My criteria for a good browser is one with Google and wikipedia search box.