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InvestmentRe: Nice by lexdino: 11:03pm On May 12, 2025
It seems all these small Nigerian banks are playing the same script on diasporans.
Providusbank used the same method to " )seize" my 100k since December last year after I transferred the initial deposit of 100k for opening a new account with them.
First, they said my BVN data doesn't correspond with the NIN I I submitted. I updated the NIN data and they are now requesting for me to send them information about my abode in Nigeria so they can verify.
100k will not kill me, so I just left it with them Until whenever I'm in Nigeria.
ProgrammingRe: Early to Early-mid career VoIP Professional by lexdino: 8:28pm On May 10, 2025
Yeah, it is.

Thank you very much

airsaylongcome:
Sipwise link I sent earlier. They are German or Austrian.

Passcom is an ITSP in Germany. I actually really wanted to work with them when I started. They had a really good VOIP training programme.

https://jobs.pascom.net/en/

They also have a really good YouTube channel.

hxxps://www[.]youtube[.]com/@pascomnet

Was actually supposed to be in Germany this weekend for the Kamailio conference starting on Monday. Small world to hear you are in Germany. Really small world I tell you!
ProgrammingRe: Early to Early-mid career VoIP Professional by lexdino: 11:04pm On May 09, 2025
Thank you very much.
I am currently studying embedded systems part-time in Germany.
If there's anything I can be of help, quid pro quo smiley, kindly let me know.

Will keep you informed about my progress.


airsaylongcome:
Lol! Truckload I know. Bookmark them. Come to them later. I may not be readily available soon. So I'm "dumping" as much as I can until my next relatively down time which may be for a few months. Focus on the Videos for now. All 32. After that we'll see where I can point you. Don't forget to keep your C/C++ in view. Very important. VERY IMPORTANT. Not all "seniors" have malicious intentions lol. (I'm not a senior o. Cos where you feel say you sabi reach you go see who sabi pass)

My fun projects are more towards home labbing. Currently messing about with home and building automation. Hard to do it properly in Naija because the electrical wiring in our homes are worse than substandard. But we still dey try to get around it

Handful of Raspberry Pi projects as well.
ProgrammingRe: Early to Early-mid career VoIP Professional by lexdino: 9:05pm On May 08, 2025
Wow shocked
A truckload of resources to consume!

Still struggling with understanding all the basics of PBX as explained in the part 1 of that series.
But I managed to login to the PBX VM on Virtualbox today.
Hopefully, will make more progress tomorrow.

Are you into embedded systems as well? I mean I2C, SPI, RTOS and those bare metal stuffs?



airsaylongcome:
We have almost 2000 FreePBX VMs for our customers. Data Centre sitting in Vegas.

I understand his worry, but to support multiple tenants using FreePBX as the PBX, almost every provider hosts multiple instances of FreePBX behind something called a Session Border Controller. Sangoma has one available for testing. There's also a somewhat limited open source one called dsiprouter. Limited in the sense that it's API is behind a pay wall. But the developer, is a super cool guy. African-American. Had a brief call with him recently and the first thing out of his mouth when I got on the call was "Thank God you are black!".

That's several steps ahead though. Focus on getting your head around understanding and working with FreePBX

Did I mention training[.]sangoma[.]com? Register there if you can and follow the PBXACT training. Same instructor. PBXACT is FreePBX with Sangoma's commercial modules. Licensed and requiring subscription. But it can begin to give you ideas how the open source offering of FreePBX is monetised.

There's an interesting Webinar coming up on 05/20 for a well received open source module.

Register at: hxxps://register[.]gotowebinar[.]com/register/4365743306136387670

and join if you can. Definitely not an attempt to market or advertise. Just interesting stuff to keep eyes on.

Don't forget to start looking into the Asterisk codebase. As a dev, that's where you want to play. AstriDevCon should be interesting
ProgrammingRe: Early to Early-mid career VoIP Professional by lexdino: 1:32am On May 08, 2025
I guess it's just the part of me that always tries to run before learning to walk smiley
I will stick with virtualbox in that case.

What do you think about that tutor's recommendation against the virtualization method for running the server?

airsaylongcome:
Why don't you want to use Virtualbox? That's what I used starting out
ProgrammingRe: Early to Early-mid career VoIP Professional by lexdino: 9:35pm On May 07, 2025
Just downloaded the PBX16 image now.
Still on part 1 of that YT series though.
Seems I will have to learn how to use the Windows inbuilt Hyper-v as against the VirtualBox and Vmware workstation VMs I have been using in the past.

airsaylongcome:
You can also work with v16: hxxps://downloads[.]freepbxdistro[.]org/ISO/SNG7-PBX16-64bit-2306-1[.]iso

V17 is still doing anyhow. Minor differences between between v16 and v17. The YT series uses v15 I think. But the concepts are still the same.

Also look up TangoPBX, a fork of FreePBX. I'm most likely going to go with that splinter as Chris Sherwood don waka go there too. But right now, I'm straddling both.

hxxps://community[.]tangopbx[.]org/
hxxps://community[.]freepbx[.]org/


Olamilarks: if you go with v17 script, run it with the
--opensourceonly option.
ProgrammingRe: Early to Early-mid career VoIP Professional by lexdino: 2:24pm On May 07, 2025
Thank you.
I will be going through everything and let you know how it's going later in the day.
Have a nice day.

airsaylongcome:
Have a crack: hxxps://www[.]sipwise[.]com/archives/career/telecom-sip-engineer
ProgrammingRe: Early to Early-mid career VoIP Professional by lexdino: 2:36pm On May 04, 2025
Thank you very much for your response.

Unfortunately, experience have made me to become very skeptical of professional developers who give directions to younger developers because I realized a lot have an ulterior motive (gatekeeping) to frustrate these younger developers out of the industry by sending them towards the wrong directions.

I would really appreciate if you could please respond to these other questions I have.
* Could you give me cues on the minimum VoIP programming skills/concept to learn, or if possible, a portfolio project to build, which will serve as proof of knowledge before applying for jobs in this niche?
* How long do you think it takes to master these learnings to a point where employers are willing to pay you money for your work?
* And what sort of tasks / daily activities should one look forward to performing on the job as a VoIP software engineer?

Thank you very much






airsaylongcome:
Asterisk, the biggest open source VoIP software is built with C/C++. You would be playing in higher leagues than where I'm even trying to get people started. Have a look at their repo see what low hanging fruits tickle you. I've come across two Naija guys living in Naija and working for Telnyx (think MTN but on a more massive scale). They were doing something similar. Working from here. Not with Asterisk but with Freeswitch (the second big open source player)

ios and Android experience just makes it even better. If that's your preference, look at Linphone mobile app and SDK.

It's a niche field though, so jobs aren't "in the open". Get into the community. Especially the developer community side of it. I literally just got "something" from a Detroit and British Colombia businesses. Simply from just being in the forums.
airsaylongcome:
Asterisk, the biggest open source VoIP software is built with C/C++. You would be playing in higher leagues than where I'm even trying to get people started. Have a look at their repo see what low hanging fruits tickle you. I've come across two Naija guys living in Naija and working for Telnyx (think MTN but on a more massive scale). They were doing something similar. Working from here. Not with Asterisk but with Freeswitch (the second big open source player)

ios and Android experience just makes it even better. If that's your preference, look at Linphone mobile app and SDK.

It's a niche field though, so jobs aren't "in the open". Get into the community. Especially the developer community side of it. I literally just got "something" from a Detroit and British Colombia businesses. Simply from just being in the forums.
ProgrammingRe: Early to Early-mid career VoIP Professional by lexdino: 9:25am On May 04, 2025
Does knowing C/C++ and having built Audio app for android and iOS give me an edge if I decide to start learning this?

airsaylongcome:
It's mostly networking. It's niche I know but part of the aim is to get readers interested. An L1 VoIP tech with zero experience will be earning around $17.50/hr for a US business. That's for someone with 0 years of experience and just basic idea about it o. A good self starter would be doing around $30/hr within 3 years with self development. And that's not hard stuff doing crazy UI/UX or CSS stuff o. I literally got my first role after watching a 30-part YouTube tutorial. From zero knowledge o. Someone with some networking background and a bit of drive could be starting at around $20/hr. It's just a bit frustrating having almost no one interested in it. I was on a call with an African-American in the space and the first thing he said was "THANK GOD you are black!" Said he's tired of attending VoIP conferences across the world and being almost the only black person in the room. He's almost always only the black speaker at these conferences.

That's for just tech. Devs could be building VoIP apps for mobile/desktop. Linphone already has any interested dev half the way. Add WebRTC using SIP.js or JSSIP and people here could be playing in that space

Is asm a reference to Assembly language? RISC or CISC?
ProgrammingRe: I Build Cross-platform Mobile App For Android And iOS by lexdino(op): 9:12pm On Apr 03, 2025
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ProgrammingRe: I Build Cross-platform Mobile App For Android And iOS by lexdino(op): 3:44pm On Feb 26, 2025
ThugCheetah:
Which card do you use to pay for Google developer console
Domiciliary Acct Debit Card
ProgrammingRe: I Build Cross-platform Mobile App For Android And iOS by lexdino(op): 11:18pm On Feb 24, 2025
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ProgrammingRe: I Build Cross-platform Mobile App For Android And iOS by lexdino(op): 10:10pm On Feb 14, 2025
Grateful for the product feedback and career tips.

Will be pushing an update to the app based on the critical points you have drawn my attention to.


sreamsense:
This is actually good at least for being able to get it to deployment stage in both stores. Try to add more screenshots to both android and that of apple store at least make them 8 each. And try to use those free professional app to design your screenshots with description to capture more interests for download. Increase on fonts where necessary to avoid people using glasses before they can read your content.

Also let your next project app topic be the app that can really solve human problem or tool so you can try to attract more downloads. If your new idea is existing before in stores, then add more extra features to make your stands out. With this you can be able to attract more downloads organically even without advert.

Seems you never integrate admob or in-app-purchase yet, Also, you are not actually using Nigeria address for your play console, but Germany. Are you based there or just used address of someone you knew there? You have tried in general to even reach this stage, try to make those changes to attract more downloads and properbly retain them through your coding quality content, and then add admob to monetize them. Go for more apps and good luck
ProgrammingRe: I Build Cross-platform Mobile App For Android And iOS by lexdino(op): 9:13am On Feb 14, 2025
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ProgrammingI Build Cross-platform Mobile App For Android And iOS by lexdino(op):
Hello,

I am an Embedded Systems Engineer specialized in developing native mobile apps for both Android and iOS Platforms.

Here is a sample project I just developed and deployed on both Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
Dinkplay App on Google Play Store | Dinkplay App on Apple App Store

Contact me, lets discuss how we can develop your idea into a mobile App present on both the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
TravelRe: Polish Student Visa by lexdino: 8:54pm On Dec 26, 2020
Shogun200:
first things first, mail the embassy to ascertain the main reason for number 9, for accommodation contract of one year visit olx.pl and search for accomdation( e.g one room apartment in wrocław), you may need to pay to secure the contract
For the itinerary, I did it with one person at wakanow.
I hope this helps

Enjoy the joy of the season.
Good evening.

What should one do if one's school provides accommodation for students but the students are not allowed to apply for the accommodation until they have their visa?

I am referring to KUL Lublin in this case.

Your response will be highly appreciated.
TravelRe: Polish Student Visa by lexdino: 1:16pm On Dec 04, 2020
Ykhgu1:
You want to do something smart you now went to First Bank ?? Like HOW??
It was not as if my sponsor had an option.
Nigerian banks wont allow you apply for CC unless you've been banking with them for up to a year.
TravelRe: Polish Student Visa by lexdino: 7:22pm On Dec 03, 2020
Never knew First bank Naira credit card takes this long to process. This coming Monday will make it 5 weeks since my sponsor applied for one but the staffs keep posting us with the excuse that they're still waiting for approval from Lagos.
During my initial Polish visa application, it only took 7 working days for Access bank to process my Naira credit card.
TravelRe: Polish Student Visa by lexdino: 7:16pm On Dec 03, 2020
Stay positive, man.
Nothing like internal runz with the phone booking system.
I can help you call their line next Thursday if you willing to compensate.


William2323:
Guyyss... i have just spent the last 4hrs 29 mins calling the embassy. From when they switched on that line Right untill they switched off the lines. It kept saying busy. I used 7phones for this operation and dailed that number 3000+ times (no exaggerations here) there was nothing not even once did it ring. It was devastating. What would i do now to get this appointment. This is why people tend to do internal runs and everything in this naija has to be fraudulent one way or the other. Im sure people are getting this appointment internally and paying to get it. Im sure.. cos this doesn’t make any sense. If lots of people aren’t getting appointments that phone lines would be on all week. Appointments are being booked but its not for the average Nigerian like you and me that wants to go through proper channels. No cap
TravelRe: Polish Student Visa by lexdino:
Kobaba:
No challenge lets me get ur contact
TravelRe: Polish Student Visa by lexdino: 6:34pm On Nov 27, 2020
Kobaba:
I still didn't get an appointment today making it 4 weeks of trying Please i really need help cos time is running out abeg �
If you're really serious, I can help you book an appointment date this coming Thursday. I have booked 3 phone appointments (2 for myself and one for a friend I met at the embassy gate during my visa interview yesterday) therefore, I'm 95% sure of getting an appointment date any Thursday that I use all my effort to call the embassy's phone line.
But you will have to pay me money oo because calling that phone line is mentally exhausting.
TravelRe: Polish Student Visa by lexdino: 6:24pm On Nov 27, 2020
Hardefillar1:
Actually it’s all on God but at the same time I did my part as a human...

I read clearly what they requested on their website and on here too...

So I took along all documents that were requested as originals in originals; and all other documents
Though I used payslips and employment letter for my financial documents.

It took exactly 30 days as it was written on my collection slip...

So once your documents are complete and valid; you’ll pray to God for success and it’ll be yours to claim.
A big congrats to you bro.
I will be glad if you could disclose the monthly net pay in your sponsor's pay slip that you submitted to the polish embassy
My initial visa application was rejected a few weeks ago as a result of insufficient funds, therefore, knowing this will highly improve my chances of success with my current visa application.
Thanks in advance.

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