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this thread sef ehn........

i have been reading this thread from around 1.30am till 4.45am as i am typing and i must confess that it is thrilling .


i am so fucking tired of all this (dreaming, fighting, flying, running, seeing things broad day light and so many others)that i decided not to fear nor think about it again (i just decide to ignore them and their nefarious activities ). sometimes i wonder whether i came to the world to fight spiritual battles or enjoy the physical realm. i have dreamt of war in Nigeria for more than three times and other terrible things (though i came to discover that i can actually cancel them in my mind, if not like two to three of my brothers would have been dead by now cause i keep seeing it repeatedly), that i just became tired of it and lost interest of it all.

Right now i am facing my physical life and refuse to be intimidated by all the fighting going on between good and evil. To me it is like GOOD AND EVIL ARE ETERNALLY FIGHTING AND WE ARE INBETWEEN THEIR FIGHT, SO EACH IS TRYING TO RECRUIT US TO JOIN THEIR CAUSE. IF U DON'T TAKE SIDE YOU WILL BE CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE AND ALL THE FIRES/MISSILES THROWN BOTH WAYS WILL MEET U IN THE MIDDLE. WHAT I AM SO FUCKING TIRED OF IS THAT COMPARE TO THIS BEINGS THAT ARE FIGHTING, WE ARE NOT THEIR MATCH IN ANYWAY. SO WHEN THEY DECIDE TO FOCUS ON YOU (OR YOU CROSS THEIR PATH OR ATTRACT THEM FOR WHATEVER REASON), IF ANOTHER SUPERIOR POWER DON'T COME TO YOUR AID, YOU ARE GONE. that explains why we have so many religions and beliefs that people cling on just to see another day. I REFUSED TO FEAR THEM NOR BE DRAWN INTO THEIR FIGHT AGAIN BECAUSE WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT WE WILL ALL DIE. TO ME THERE IS NO NEED TO BE AFRAID OF SOMETHING THAT WILL EVENTUALLY HAPPEN SOONER OR LATER. INFACT I LIVE MY LIFE NOW AS IF EACH DAY IS MY LAST DAY THOUGH I KNOW MA TIME IS NOT YET UP.

my mum keep telling me that she was billed to die (along with two others who eventually die and came to tell her that she should follow them claiming it was her turn) when she was about to deliver me, but for strong prayers. from day one (when i was born), i and my family we have been living in the war front(fighting with all kind of forces known to human) till i lost ma brother precisely march, 2000. it was scary then that you will wish night should not come. i started fasting 6am - 6pm when i was around 9 years and have prayed all kinds of prayers known on earth. from mfm style to crying style just to ensure that you see another day plus something to eat. EVERYDAY I TRY TO LEAVE A LEGACY THAT WILL LIVE AFTER ME BECAUSE EVEN IF YOU MAY SEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN TOMORROW BY DIVINE REVELATION, YOU DON'T HAVE THE POWER TO STOP IT XCEPT AID COMES FROM SUPERIOR SPIRITUAL BEING OR IF U LIKE ME CAN CANCEL AND DISPEL IT FROM YOUR SUBCONCIOUS.


FINALLY IT IS LIKE WE ARE BEING TRAPPED IN WHAT (A CONSCIOUSNESS) WE DO NOT FULLY COMPREHEND. JUST LIKE THE SIX BLIND MEN WHO WENT TO EXPERIENCE WHAT AN ELEPHANT IS, EACH OF US HAVE EXPERIENCE WE CAN'T FULLY UNDERSTAND BECAUSE THE WHOLE PICTURE IS REALLY BEYOND OUR COMPREHENSION AND IMAGINATION.

CAN'T KEEP ON BABBLING BEFORE I WRITE A BOOK.

STAY POSITIVE, LIVE POSITIVE FOR YOU WILL EVENTUALLY DIE

Boyooosa:
One of them is aggressively working towards being a SAN which I know its possible in Nigeria, in fact, he is the one that inspired my stand. Anyway, leaving the Lawyers alone, wot of the Judiciary system, is it frustrating the Legal Practitioners or they are the one frustrating it? pls, i stand to be enlightened.

everyone has a way of getting to the top. whether you get there or not depends on your approach.

if you dont consider him to be a good lawyer, how do you think his colleagues and clients would rate him. plus if you were to have a case, knowing the kind of person he is, would you pay him to represent you in courts or would you expect him to deliver good legal services or would you even recommend him to somebody looking for a good lawyer.

zibi2:
Nice advice that why it's called project you seek for knowledge outside your own wisdom and abilities any way I have my materials almost ready anyway thanks !!

if u have materials almost ready, then start reading and prepare your chapter one. there is no reasonable advice you are going to get here.


BTW since you are seeking for knowledge outside your wisdom and abilities, Do you have the available resources to complete it within time stipulated so as to submit it as a project work AND get a good grade? if yes you are good to go, if no then reassess your ability. my simple advice.

will they hear

this thing u just copied and paste shows how shallow you are. you don't think but swallow anything given to you line, hook and sink just because it is one silly person you have not even seen nor knows how he/she behave. do you know what is compliment or do you know what attracts a man to a lady or the dynamics of relationship. i guess you are a youngster, so spend some time and study about relationships or talk to some elderly folks to enlighten you the more.

moreover the first thing that attract a man to a lady is.........................u guess (think about your eyes).

met/mat is a lucrative course as it is not applicable only in the steel industries but across all manufacturing and production companies including oil companies(by now u are jumping for joy ). infact with FG local content policy, most infrastructures and structures in the oil and gas subsector are partly or wholly designed and fabricated in Nigeria. with a growing manufacturing base and more factory setups, the services of met/mat engineers will soon surpass that of mechanical engineers. i can't give more details again, just know that the prospect is high. moreover you don't have to limit yourself to the Nigerian environment because if you know what you are doing (ask one of ur professors or academic adviser for the career prospect in that area), you may become a global player. One of my professors who taught us material science when i was in school used to go to the US as if he is going to their village. i think we had only one lecture with that man instead of 5-7 because of his frequent traveling.

Remember you have to graduate with good grades and be good upstairs to compete for plum job openings (a well rounded student, not just to pass ur exams). this is ur preparation and suffering time for the glory ahead.

wishing you luck with your studies.

kelechiMarie:
So true Hehehehehe
Terrorists attack only america and the bad guys are the Russians and Asians.

Mostly Arabs not Asians generally

this post looks like a fp candidate.

space booked in case ##space bookers association##

Boyooosa:
come to our street and c Barristers that ride cars but can not construct simple and correct tenses ... are they successful or rich? i am asking you a question na... why u com pause?

i have defined what success is in this thread https://www.nairaland.com/1996267/sorry-state-nigerian-education.

in terms of being rich it depends on what u term as riches or is it being wealthy.

those barristers are below standards and below average professionals exist in all professions.

like sibrah rightly said, hacking is higher in pecking order than enterprise development which means that you must be an excellent enterprise developer before you can attain hacker level. just try piercing through wordpress or drupal source code files (which are not big systems anyway) and u will see that understanding, modifying and extending (which is hacking by the way) another developers code is a pain in the ass especially if the fellow does not follow any programming standards nor provide any documentation.

Thewhizzkid1:
Those nairalanders who gave d marketable courses suggestion are right. An average doctor will graduate and get a job faster than an average engineer. So will an average dentist graduate and get a job faster than an average biochemist. So d fact that someone gave dat suggestion does not mean he is a scheme to get rich quick. In fact, anyone who wants to get rich place little or no value in education. How can someone who wants to get rich quick study medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, law, etc? The truth of d matter is dat there are indeed marketable courses but our aim of studying a given course in school should not b mainly based on d marketability.
Jux study what u like and what u want and keep praying and studying hard so that u find a gud job afterwards. Peradventure u don't get ur desired course, still study hard and pray in wherever u find urself.

is this a consolation to console yourself or others? i repeat when you are good with what you are doing, you won't be looking for a job.

Most times you guys fail to realise that you are competing with somebody else including your classmate n that bosom friend of yours for a limited space. there is no where in the world that job space are reserved so that when you graduate, you immediately fill in (except for your papa company). the process of employment is always open so that the employer can get the person they think is perfectly fit for the job. that is why it is called labour market. Every graduate whether studying medicine, nursing, dentistry or any other course you think is lucrative automatically enters the job market except the person does not want to work
##just think about what happens in the market btw sellers n buyers==* clue the best (a good) service gets a higher pay*==##

Even the bible says "seest thou a man diligent in his business, he will stand before kings and not mean men"

why did you choose/pick or accept a topic you don't have an idea about. better change it ASAP to what you can do or maybe you want to score less than a c in ur project work. you don't have to kill urself with ur b.sc project. just do what you can because of time and available resources or you may regret it.

If u are really curious to know how stuff works, take up a personal project maybe after graduation to improve your skills. #ma opinion though#

Good for them and a great marketing strategy to get more developers using .NET

They have slowly and painfully realised that open source gathers more momentum and have actually made some systems necessary even on windows platform.

PROCTOR:
What else should they equate success to if not money

Being recognised in your chosen field of endeavour as an authority is success. the likes of dangote, wole soyinka, femi falana and many others can be considered success in their fields because they excel at what they do.

Making money is a skill that if you don't know, no matter the course you study, you will remain a pauper. No one course guarantees you the kind of money you may need OR haven't you seen people in so called lucrative profession live a wretched life.

if u want money, then learn how to make a living from your discipline afterall you have people in every profession that are making money most atimes without being recognised.

if u design that and did not use templates then this is my verdict:

- your color contrast is poor though the content organisation is great.
- your text formatting is a little poor (check out goal.com or punchng for font-family and font-size spec).
- don't use dotted line border around your login box and the rest.
- Lastly and most importantly, from your HomePage it is not obvious what your site does (or is meant for). tell ur first time visitors what your site does from the homepage to expect any sign up.

i can build a responsive wordpress theme for you if you are ready to pay

I came to notice that some fellas on Nairaland in a get rich quick schemes started suggesting which disciplines in tertiary institutions are marketable in Nigeria. All tom dick and harry proffered their solutions in a million and one ways.

Let me start by saying, there is no shortcut to success (Recognition). Smart and hard work with perseverance would take you to any position in life.

It seems that the fate of Nigerian Youths are left hanging in the balance. This mentality exhibited by youngsters is a result of lack of direction and goals in life which should have been hammered home during their days in secondary schools. But what did our teachers do? They glorify one discipline more than the other that children became stereotyped to some courses. Those days when we were younger, if a student is ask what discipline do you want to study when you get to the university, if u don't mention Engineering, Law and Medicine, then you are considered a candidate for failure. This mentality rock bottom the self esteem of children who didn't have a direction early in life like me or those who wanted to study other courses that were considered less lucrative. Like when i was growing up, businessmen were look upon with disdain and considered dishonest in their dealings. Instead a professional job with a steady paycheck was preferred in our locality plus the fact that you were considered a saint. When i was in my early twenties, i discovered that businessmen rock n rule the town, so i decided to join the party and discard all other opinions including that of my immediate family.

The problem with education in Nigeria is that our Lecturers/Teachers don't encourage creative thinking and problem-solving among students. the prefer to spoon-feed students thereby stifling creative thinking. if you don't give back exactly what was given to u in class, your chance of failure is above 70%.

See what lack of good counseling and career guidance in our secondary schools have caused. these teenagers now equate success with money. OH what a bastardize minds. it would not be better for our teachers/leaders who refused to lay a solid foundation for their wards whom they were supposed to groom. having access to internet has become a cursed than blessing because youngsters are not taught how to think for themselves and to separate opinions from facts. it is a pity that people who are supposed to be leaders of tomorrow don't have guidance of what to make of their life. NIGERIA is greatly doomed, for our founding fathers (past government administrations starting from 1960 till now) did not lay a foundation for this country leading to what i term SUCCESSIVE GENERATIONAL FAILURES (I need to write a book on this).

With the annoyance in me, if i want to finish this piece, it may take a day for nlders to go through this. So for the sake of brevity and the fact that i would love contribution from matured minds, lets keep this rolling. Do you really need to read a lucrative course in tertiary institution to be successful (or make money as some youngsters here associate success with plenty money)?

Let me end with this advice (or should i say a little secret). When you have a quality product (which is yourself, skills and services) and know how to market it (not with bragging), the sky is your beginning. BE THE BEST YOU CAN IN YOUR CHOSEN FIELD OF ENDEAVOURS

Contributions are welcomed. ##team summarise - don't look for summary because this is how i can summarise it. maybe i wasn't good at summary during my secondary school days##

***To moderators, if this post is not the right section pls move it there for me ***

See what lack of counselors and career guidance in our secondary schools have caused. these teenagers now equate success with money. OH what a bastardize minds. it would not be better for our teachers/leaders who refused to lay a solid foundation for their wards whom they were supposed to groom. having access to internet has become a cursed than blessing because youngsters are not taught how to think for themselves and separate opinions from facts. it is a pity that people who are supposed to be leaders of tomoro dont have guidance of what to make of their life. NIGERIA is greatly doomed.

bruceleah:
I understand it's a pseudocode, I was just questioning his logic. why would we check for passwords if username does not exist?

Great optimisation reducing system resources consumption (like overhead incurred by database access) and faster code execution.

GozieDiora:
Well, from the stand point of computer programming purity and code optimisation, one is actually better.

Here is the gist:

In the first scenario (I.e. using the logical operator), compilers equiped with code optimisation functionality (like Object Pascal etc) take advantage of this structure to reduce total execution time by handling only one side of the operator in the best case scenario. In other words, the second side is executed if and only if the first part evaluates to be false (for logical OR). This goes a long way to increase speed and reduce run time memory consumption. However, this benefit can only be remarkable in data crunching programs like large file processing, batch processing especially in ERP's etc. IDE's like Netbeans for Java language, Morph X for X++ etc. which show approximate execution time would show this for very large amount of data.

In the second, still on logical OR, provided the first condition is true, the second must run.

So if OR is the intended logic, it would pay to use the first structure for code optimisation.

This feature you just explained is called short-circuiting, whereby the second condition is ONLY evaluated if the first condition is true else the inner block statement is skipped and the else block executed if it is available.

bruceleah has a higher insight which is mainly in their application. in between i am learning and enjoying it

more suggestions please

Cybergenius:
No difference, they are both the same

like bruceleah said. i think there is a very subtle difference mostly in different scenarios and application.

bruceleah:
Another scenario... Let's say we want to know if a username actually exist in our database, and check if the password matches the specified user name

The first example wld just throw a mismatch error

But the with d example, we could actually check if the username exists first, the throw an error if username does not exist. And den we check if the password matches the specified username. If not true, it throws a mismatch error.

i love your assertion by bringing two use case illustrating each scenario perfectly. in fact if it was a competition i may likely give it to you . but lets keep this open for further thoughts and opinions.

pls all the programmers in the house should contribute for the benefit of all. it is very necessary

NOTICE: pls this post is for experienced programmers only. if u don't understand what it means , just sit back and enjoy the explanation from our senior friends.

........AND if u know, please offer ur explanation. even if u are a newbie, u can benefit from this.


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what is the difference between these two statements.

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if(condition && condition){

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if(condition){
if(condition){}
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for the past three years or so, i was in the leagues of idi amin group but because i had nothing to show for it plus the fact that it is not profitable, i switched in the middle of this year to charles taylor group. With the wealth of experience garner from the previous idi amin group, i can extend and customize CMS by developing themes, plugins and modules (to be frank im still working on it trying to use my coding ability to work with open source systems like Drupal). hoping to flex with Subversion (SVN), Github and Drush next year insha Allah

very insightful post. you sound very experienced. currently working on a site with lots of images, animations and drop down menu, and i am thinking of using responsive layout to cater for differences in screen size of desktops only (between 650px and 1200px). hoping to create a mobile version later (i.e if client request for it). what do you think?

@moderator
Like i said it was part time effort during my university days which lasted like six years plus all the strikes and riots. moreover i decided not to be a blogger but a developer which means i spent sometime learning programming and development tools like cms and framework coding. i was not just out to make money, but to be a top developer and also make web design my hobby.

i know that anybody who dedicates two years to learn full time, with good guidance will reach where i am. so it depends on ur vision, strategies and resources available to you.

THE JOURNEY OF A WEB DEVELOPER

IN 2008 i learn web design hoping it was like graphics design where you've got tools like corel draw, Photoshop and illustrator to perform your magic. In a bid to understand and master these imaginary tools of mine, i got to discover that the web was different. From FrontPage, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Swishmax in 2008; i progress through the ranks and find myself coding websites in 2012(something i hated from the very beginning). Not that i didn't know about coding but i thought i could find a way to be an average designer without coding. After groping through a lot of web technologies both backend and frontend, i came to love coding my sites(because of the level of control it gives) than using code generators n wysiwyg(what you see is what you get) editors. Coding sites is very tedious and a pain in the ass, not to mention the time spent on this strenous exercise(that is if you are working on a project and not learning/practising a language). With pressure from clients and bosses to deliver within a short period of time plus the low amount budgeted for web projects, coding became unsuitable(or you can say unbearable) and punishing for even the smallest of projects, and i turned to CMS and FRAMEWORKS. It was as if i just started to learn web development again and it is very frustrating, having to learn new tools, API's and new ways of doing things almost on each project(with low pay and short development time).

Not to mention the fact that 70% - 90% of website owners in naija dont know nor care about site operations, management and maintenance. All they do is setup the site, forget about it and after one year or the number of years hosting was paid for, .....and that is it. The worrisome part is that they dont know how to MONITIZE their site and more annoying, they dont want to learn with the smallest fee or even free of charge.

After six years of dirtying my hands in the web world(though it was actually an extra-curricular activity due to my full time university studies), i discover the power of the frontend tripatite, protocols/standards and the place of backend technologies in web(mobile web) app development. With knowledge of dreamweaver, fireworks, photoshop(little), illustrator(little), swishmax(ranaway from animation because of the complexity. Don't just add salt to injury, moreover javascript/css animation together with animated gif solve my simple animation problems), html, xml, css(can't stop loving to code/design with this though frameworks appeal, but i still love it raw), javascript/jquery(still hoping to mess with mooTools, YUI, Angularjs n Backbone.js), ajax and other web API's, http and ftp rules with codes, traffic generation and basic SEO, web services and rss feeds, basic server administration and configuration, few backend programming languages, few Database technologies and inching towards shell scripting, i am still marching on, not relenting until i become a true WEBMASTER.

As i am zooming to certification in web development with few websites under my portfolio including a custom mini-CMS, it seems as if i have just started and there are more things to learn than what i have already known. It is a never ending cycle as i prepare to present myself to the world and face great challenges ahead.

all of una wey dey view this topic in the early hrs of the day wey una suppose sl**p. btw 2am n 5am. above dey see una for 3d reflective

this one wey loss of memory don follow, how will he remember where all his cash is hidden?

chai!!!!!!!!!!! some nlders no dey sleep. at 2am and 5am, some people are still posting. una try sha


but op try complete the remaining ones, i and we are waiting