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traeces: Some1 pls talk to me. 10x

yes it is possible... If your replies to the same queries are the same or if you plan to be on hand to handle the queries..

Congratulations to the boys,,,,when are they releasing the code

My Congratulations goes to Suen for keeping to your promise. Atleast you inspired us all. Especially for Me, I am already picking intrest in this programming of a thing. Please where can I get enroll for any of this programming sort here in Abuja?

@winners, congratulations, I would love that there be a Pycon in Nigeria maybe next year.

weldone @Seun. Congrats guys.

Congrats to the winners.

Hmmm great inovation. I came late but nevermind, am still on PHP. I dont think i would have been able. Dont actually know what this apparent popular Python is all about for now. Will love it more if such competition is done annually. Maybe i stand i a good chance next year because am not resting at all. And it is quiet interesting to observe that apart from Pystar, the rest two winners are new members. Maybe they just heard a competition was being organised on nairaland, and they rushed and sign up to display their tallent or probably most likely are well known programmers here in nairaland and dint want to contest with their real identity. All the same, kudos to the winners and Seun. Good to see nigerian youths bringing something out of nothing. Despite the hunger, guys still willing to learn and read complex codes and languages when de quick remove food from belle

I quite agreed with the last post. The problem jamb is having is not a scripting problem but rather managing the request made by student within the same time. An idea came to me, why not jamb write a script that manage student result checking traffic. That shld take care of the problem. Am available if they need me on that.

laidback:
I stopped at 'entry level' programming over a decade ago though I'm still in IT. So I'm not speaking authoritatively, but that I think a crashing website is more than about the website itself. Aren't the hardware (Server hosting the application, networking and bandwidth of the link connecting the server) also very important? Meanwhile, I know someone who can take a shot at this.

True talk,it is beyond the website now we are talking about the machineries running the website although some real good preogramming techniques would come in handy.i have not been coming to nairaland for upto 3 months or more if not i would have joined cos am into programming but i know by now the competition will be over.

There will be a new contest soon.

Seun:
There will be a new contest soon.

hope to get the info then,meanwhile there is no website that doesn't go down/slow server for a very massive traffic,I even encountered that today on nairaland,because of today's traffic.

Seun:
There will be a new contest soon.

AMEN

Seun:
If you're competent in another programming language, Python is the easiest programming language to pick up. Just download Python 3.2.3 and read the Python tutorial that comes with it. If anything is not clear, browse/search StackOverflow. Go through the Python module documentation. Ask questions on this thread.

Once you understand Python, download the CherryPy web framework and install it. Read the documentation to get up to speed and play with it for a while. If you have questions, search the web or ask on this thread.

You will also need the MySQL driver for Python. Download this and follow the Python 3 installation instructions. Of course, you must download MySQL to your machine in order to use it.

Is CherryPy still the best framework for Python?

By best I am most concerned with speed/performance.

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So 150k for 2012 na small moni?

Seun:
Hello Guys & Girls,

The JAMB website goes down every year when results are released. It's a national embarrassment, and it needs to be fixed right away. I bet the JAMB website is going to crash again after the next UTME exam if we don't show them how it's done!

I hereby announce a programming contest to create an open source JAMB result checking script just to show the JAMB Tech guys how it's done. You're to create a simple JAMB result checking website that works just like the official version and can handle millions of candidate records and heavy traffic from all of them trying to check their results on the same day.

I'm also offering a prize of 150 thousand naira to the person who writes the best JAMB result checking script, but in order to win the prize, you must satisfy certain conditions:

1) You must be unemployed or employed/self-employed and currently earning less than ₦251k per month.
2) You must develop your JAMB result checker with Python 3.2, CherryPy , MySQL 5+, & hg on Google Code.
3) You must indicate your interest immediately by posting a link to your repo here.
4) You must complete the result checker before 11pm on Sunday 8th April and link to it on this thread.

The writer of the best result checking script as assessed by me and other judges will win 150,000 naira, provided you qualify and follow all the rules. The money will be deposited into your account about 3 days after the submission deadline.

Ask me any question about this contest and I'll try to answer you promptly.

Good luck!

All these chochochocho na for bloggers blogger blogger. Real engineers hit and run. Nairaland is stale make una reinvent and pay we the real guys wey dry run am since A1. This site and Sahara reporters website is of no difference or use.