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Hi Guys,

Over the last few months, I have been working on an outsourcing portal for the Nigerian community. I have studied closely the rate at which the IT community is growing in Nigeria. The product which i am creating awareness for is hosted at www.skillsmix.com.

I know a number of people have attempted to do this in the past, but there hasnt been much traction to this web applications. The products aim to bring a gap which definitely exist in the Nigeria IT community.

Please find attached a product profile which i have drafted below:

Introduction: Skillsmix is an online outsourcing portal bringing together skilled workers (freelancer) in contact with clients who are willing to pay freelancers for their project needs.

Features:

- Escrow Service: The escrow service is very crucial to the success of skillsmix.com as it allow us to protect both the client/buyer and the freelancers.
- Project Management Tools: Skillsmix has been built to provide both parties adequate tools to efficiently manage their projects.
- Each project posted will have its own Q & A discussion board where client and freelancer can collaborate.
- There is a messaging system (Compose, inbox and sent folder) for all users of the website.
- Social Media Tool: There is a forum built into the site where freelancers, client and Skillsmix support staff can mingle and network.


I am committed within the next 3months to create an awareness about this service and also to answer any questions that anyone might have. I welcome ideas, opinions and constructive feedback for this service as we launch this product in Nigeria.


Thanks

We are a small start up IT company in Lagos, located around Oregun in Lagos.

We are looking for a Business Development Executive.


The Job spec is as below:

1. Adopting company's vision, own the vision and help to drive the vision.
2. Liaise with the users of the website and build a working relationship with users using social media tools or any means available.
3. Expected to meet up with set targets around the build up of traffic and revenue into the website.
4. Would be expected to be comfortable with the website so as to be able to answer any question or resolve any issues about the website.
5. Expected to be able to work under minimal supervision and able to use own initiatives as at when needed.
6. Would acts as a representative of the company at any PR events we are expected to feature.
7. Coordinating and organizing office and the website back end functions.


Candidate would be expected to have relevant experience and qualification.

Send CV to info@leumascom.com

I am keen to know if there are any Ruby on Rails programmers in Nigeria.

I have some on going projects and the projects have been written in Ruby on Rails.

And I would be needing some help as the project grows.

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Thanks Afam. I hope more people will contribute to this topic.

I have been a frequent visitor to online freelancing marketplace in the west (US and Europe). Sites i have visited in the past include odesk, elance, freelancer e.t.c. And these web application do fill a gap in the west.

As a summary, these websites connects freelancers possessing desired skills and individual/organization that have small to medium term projects to be executed. These sites serve as escrow as well, the client would have to deposit payment for the projects and the money would only be release to workers on successful completion of the project. (These sites charges between 7% - 10% of any amount paid to freelancers)

I have done a very quick google search on these websites in Nigeria and i found a few sites with little or no activity on them. I would like to get some insights into these as i currently have a solution that i can customize and deploy to a production within a few weeks but it is important to understand the why it would work or why it wouldnt.

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I have a Honda Pilot for sale in Lagos.

Location: Anthony Village, Lagos.

Alloy wheel
Leather seats (lovely interior)
4WD
Full options
Factory ac
3row seat
Cruise control

The car looks good for its age and drives well.

Mileage is 131000

Asking price is 2million.


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This is my own take on this. I do not believe testing is a waste of time on my project, infact it is one of the most valuable thing a developer can do for so many reason and i would try to list some.
1. it help to understand the problem domain better as when you think about how to test an application even before it is written, it forces you to ask the right questions.

2. It also help for maintainabilty and support, what happens when you come back to a piece of code you have written a lot of time ago.

3. Also when you add a new functionality it acts as a safety net to ensure that you havennt broken anything.

4. It also help to ensure that you only write the minimal code that is needed to solve the problem at hand, as you only need to write code to make the test pass.

Also @seun said it is extra piece of code, you would not normally deploy your test code to the production env so it is not extra code, it is only to ensure that there isnt any broken functionality in your application.

I believe there is only one condition which should make a developer not write tests for their code, if the application is so small as in just a page of code and it is only maintained by you, saying that i would still write tests.

There are several levels at which which can do testing

1. Unit testing which is at the lowest level
2. Integration testing
3. Acceptance tests (which is done at user interface level)

And i believe every project should be testing at these 3levels. see Mike Cohn testing pyramid for how we should be distributing our testing efforts at the different levels. (http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/the-forgotten-layer-of-the-test-automation-pyramid)


I did a talk on testing some months ago and i have tried to attach my presentation to this post(its not the full presentation as there is a 200k limit). I hope this is useful to someone.



Saying all this , it is a not an easy craft, it takes a lot of time to learn how to do it right without going over the top ......

Hi,

i think i am more interested in the prices quoted per m2. it is not stated in term of individual items, such as blocks or cement or any of the other material needed.

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While i commend this effort, how do the nigerian police ensure that details entered is correct.

What stop me from entry whacky data into the system?

Interesting and we are watching for opportunities , I hope this thread would stay on track, focusing on the reason it was created ,