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dhtml18:
This is the style of nairaland voting, the way it is done across board, I did not form the system you know. Let us just play along please, but in case your royal highness or anyone is not too pleased about this, well, you can always click here.

I don agree na. I dey sit down watch..

dhtml18:
I nominate seunthomas (he stands a chance since i am not running)



The way other nairaland competitions are decided - BY VOTING ONLY!!!! Nah, no coding things o, we want to give a fair chance to everyone.

How can you select the "Best Nairaland Programmer" by "VOTING ONLY" without any form of technical task or "coding"
That does not sound right.
I no dey compete sha but i dey sip coffee they watch..

Make i seat down they watch....LOL

@KvnqPrezo You should learn to respect your seniors. I am 100% sure you did not read this all through. @dhtml18 is not in my bracket and neither are you. Having projects on github is not a criteria for how well skilled you are. Experience is one of the single most important requirement in programming. You are gaining yours gradually. While would i be comparing myself to @dhtml18 who just started learning android not so long ago. I started android development more than 6 years ago. IOS development in about the same time.
The whole idea of this thread was just to have fun and nothing more. There are very few people around NL that are in my bracket and most of them would have appreciated the pun in the whole exercise.

For those of you saying taking someone else's work and publishing it online as your own(even when you are a co-author) is not plagiarism, i dont think you really know what you are saying.
This is just one example of plagiarism, there are more direct ways like taking the text of the content and changing the authors name to your own name.
OP, my advice is to contact the Professor and inform him(in a friendly manner). Its your right. Ordinarily, he should have even contacted you before uploading the work to any site at all. If he fails to do so, just contact those sites and ask them to take down your work. Send your proof to them and they will act accordingly. Your proof may be in any form. It may even be a spiral binding of the original work. They are under obligation to at least listen to you. However, they may have terms that does not explicitly forbid co-authors to publish a document, however all the other authors must be cited appropriately.

This was something i discussed in depth with someone just yesterday. This issue of plagiarism is a big one that most of those academic sites have been battling for a long time. Some of this sites have Machine Learning software that can detect if a work is plagiarised. My advice is you do the gentleman thing first by contacting the said professor C. Ask him to relinquish his claims to the original work. Ideally, he should respond positively because it can be a major embarrasment for him and can actually ruin is academic career. If he refuses to contact those sites or per adventure he delays in doing so. You can contact them directly with adequate evidence, which may be scanned copies of any hard copy materials in which the work was first published, newspaper commentories on the said paper,copy of your email to him. Most of them will respond positively by contacting him and would take appropriate action if you have all the right evidence. Wish you the best.

Bro, your code actually makes no sense. Your exception handling at the very least is really not necessary. Its purely an overkill. But nice humor sha.

Your chances are quite good. Just make sure you work more on your Java skills. I recommend you pick up a few more languages on the way. Its easier to get php jobs. Also .Net jobs are around especially companies building custom software. I wont recommend you focus on CCNA except you really have passion for networking. The difference between a programmer and other IT fields is that you can always go independent "easier".

You can learn javascript in a few hours. But it will take practice and experience to become proficient in it. proficiency would depend on you.

Highly furious i was not included in your list of helpers. But will still go ahead and help you.
Easiest way to go about doing this and still have the robust features you want are 2 major ways.

a. Using a mail script(php or any language), create a rest api for your mail service on your server.
This is beneficial, if you want to integrate the mail function with an existing rest api.

b. Just look for a simple pop3 or imap client and use it in your app. You need to enable pop3/imap in your mail service else it wont work.

Apparently your developer is learning the hard way the issues of compatibility between android versions and devices. There are rules to follow when developing an app that works across versions of android and devices. The problem is that in most developed countries very few people have android versions lower than 3.0
But in Nigeria and most developing countries, older devices are more prominent.

a. Use appcompat for uniform UI across android versions.
b. You may need to use network libraries(http,socket,etc) that support lower versions. In some cases you will need to actually write your own network stack. Most of the open source libraries dont support older devices.
c. Its always better to test on older devices first and then complete your test on newer devices.
Wish your developer best of luck.

You would need to bundle your application with the java runtime and an application launcher which would be an executable(.exe). The final size of your application would be huge however. If you know the libraries your jar uses from the java runtime, you may be able to exclude some libraries and hence reduce the size of your final bundle. Their are some applications that do this already for you. Best you search online for them.

Olumyco:
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm!
Bro. try and get what I am saying. Nobody is saying .net is class of libraries. What U wrote still support what I wrote but only that U r trying to separate the content of .net and then sticking only to the runtime part of it as the nomenclature.

ur classification

1. .net as abstraction of machine

2. .net as a framework


Mine

1. CLR

2. Class libraries


So what's the difference


.net CLR is a virtual machine. And a Virtual Machine is an abstraction away from native code (machine).

All I can see is that U r trying to describe .net CLR and .net framework as separate entities just the way we av it in other languages like java.
But I can tell U it's not it.

.net combines both the runtime and the class libraries together and that is why U cannot compare it with JVM.

JVM is only a virtual machine which U can compare to .net CLR but .net is more than a CLR.

Though I too have problem with Microsoft in terms of nomenclature. Naming it .net Framework to me is quite misleading except those that really understands what is happening under the hood. But my point is this:

".net Whatever" is both CLR and Class libraries. Other third party libraries can be used on it. But it is clear .net comes with CLR and internal libraries just like Node.js.

Get this .net contains almost 13, 000 classes. If .net did not come with libraries so how do we use it for Web (ASP.net), desktop apps and co.
.net expose a lots of classes (API) - file class, Graphic class, SmtpClient Class and so on.

Now the closest to .net is Node.js

I think we can form a Nomenclature for .net ourselves

May b we shud call it .net platform

Besides if we call it ".net Framework" just know that it's a Robust Framework that is pregnant with CLR and Framework Class Library

And if we call it ".net Runtime" just as Oga Seunthomas would want it, just know that it is pregnant with Common Language Runtime (CLR) and Framework Class Library

Thanks

Forget it. You cant understand it. You are still repeating the same mistake.
.Net is different architecturally from the .Net framework.

Olumyco:
.net framework is a robust framework and as ovoSoftware has described it, that is how it is.

.net framework contains two tins

1. Framework Class Library

2. Common Language Runtime

Framework Class Library is a library where u can get and access classes to do bigger tins.

Common Language Runtime (CLR) is Microsoft means of Implementing codes

Common Language Runtime (CLR) has both compiler and Interpreter(JIT Compiler attached)

The compiler compiles d codes to MSIL code (it's an intermediate language dat looks like object oriented assembly language). The interpreter den interpretes & JIT optimize d MSIL code by translating it to machine code at runtime and JITing it.


So .net is both class libraries and Runtime

Just like Nodejs of JavaScript dat has both libraries and Runtime

Like in some other languages dier libraries stand as an entity and dier runtime as another entity.

For the sake of technical correctness, i would like to disagree with you.
.NET is not the same thing as the .NET framework which you rightly defined as consisting of the runtime and the accompanying libraries.
.NET is an abstraction of the machine. For you to say that .NET is a set of libraries would be very inaccurate and would be missing the entire point of the development of .NET.

The whole idea behind creation of .NET(runtime) is to ensure portability across microsoft languages. This means that irrespective of the language of writing your application, it could still interoperate with other codebase that is .NET.
If for example i wrote a piece of code, say a dynamic library in c#, i could easily use the library in vb.net without recompiling it. I just include the neccessary library and start calling methods.
Now the framework which consists of base classes and the runtime is bundled together.
But when you say .NET, you are describing the runtime. Its just like Java, which consists of the runtime and the class libraries. Java and .NET can exist without the accompanying libraries by the way.
And this is not about argument.
Its so if you go to an interview and meet someone who understands this concept well, you will be technically correct.

ovoSoftware:
My young friend, CLR (common library runtime) is the application virtual machine in the .NET Framework......that does not make it a runtime......its like calling android studio an automation tool just because it contains an automation tool (gradle) or calling a human head just because he has an head......I gave an easy discription for what .NET is.....you went all technical ...... and you ate still wrong

Also go to the link b4 commenting on yardstick cuz itz all there except you don't understand and I will be happy to help

OK ohhh. According to you, .NET is ".NET is a set of libraries ". Dude am not young by the way, one of the early adopters of .Net,Java,Python in this part of the world.

dhtml18:
Battle-line drawn: ovoSoftware vs seunthomas
Referee: master-troll (mister dhtml18)
Please watch this board for live battle.

You can start placing your bets. . .

You are a joker. You wey no fit differenciate between language and runtime, na you wan do referee?

ovoSoftware:
@seunthomas
What are u saying?....... the class library and the CLR (common language runtime) together constitute the .NET framework....so u saying its only a runtime is not different from me calling it a bunch of libraries . In my earlier statement I tried to give an eagle's eye view of what .NET is but you went all technical in a wrong way....I bet u haven't heard of what a runtime library is

As for your comparison saga......this is one of the many projects done to compare Java and c# speed on android

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17134522/does-anyone-have-benchmarks-code-results-comparing-performance-of-android-ap

Bro, you are wrong. But i wont want to elaborate so it does not look like we are at war. But do a little research on the .Net concept and Language Virtual Machines. You will understand that am right. As for comparison, what is the yardstick. I could wake up tomorrow and create my own implementation of .NET or Java and say so and so is faster. Proper benchmarks require you state the yardstick for your measurements and not just make generalized statements.

I dont want to sound like a bully, but a lot of the statements made on this thread are very very wrong. Like someone comparing speed of java(android) and .net without an appropriate yardstick. Both perform comparable well. And both have some runtime optimizations that could be done. Lets just say when it comes to speed, c/c++ is the only language that beats java and .net. This is because their is no middle process in c, no garbage collection, no VM. Please before you post stuff, try to confirm if what you post is accurate, else you maybe misleading other people. In life lies move faster than the truth. Lets try to be well informed.

ovoSoftware:
don't confuse .NET with C#. C# is a language, .NET is a set of libraries
Almost 2 pages now and its a pity no programmer could correct this

This is the biggest mistake programmers make don't learn the library ......learn the language.

Learn the language completely. Don’t learn the libraries, learn the language. Use the libraries. Does that make sense? e.g. Learning the language will allow you to manipulate it as you start to do things you never thought of before. Learning the language completely will also help in learning other languages later as you'll be able to ask the question "how do I do ____ in ____?". You'll also learn things you shouldn't do, like in Java, double brace initialization

.Net is actually not a set of libraries but a runtime. The difference is that a library is in most compiled or static linkable code that you can reuse in your own program. .Net is more than that. The closest comparison to .Net would be the JVM which is what makes java code portable and run anywhere.

I would like to contribute my 2 kobo. Firstly, .Net is not a language but a runtime. The .Net platform has several languages and even languages like php,python,ruby could be ported to work on .Net VM.
In the early stage when the .Net framework was developed (early 2000), it was actually far more advanced than even Java. The closed nature of the framework made it develop far slower than most open languages. Its actually adopts new idealogies faster than Java.
I develop on most of this platforms and can categorically say anyone making such an assumption is ignorant. .Net is now more open and i can say that it will be relevant for a long time.

larisoft:
Baba, am fine and learning o.

On the issue at hand, I m not asking why use servers. am asking; if your needs are so big that you will need dedicated servers, why not just use a cloud service? you can read my comment up there.

The whole idea of a dedicated server was to run containers on it.. Good to know you are ok.

larisoft:
from what he says, I deduce he needs an app he believes is "large". My solution? build something he can keep expanding on and it won't tear apart. that's the major feature in apps like snapchat. Those asking for dedicated servers...cloud nko? why waste time hacking away at servers which is just a utility.

Well you need servers to host the api. Or is the app going to communicate p2p(even with that you would need a signalling server-intermediary server). Anyway, i was offering to build the app for free as a partnership. How are u doing by the way @larisoft.

If you can afford to pay for dedicated servers for a year,register the business name(US),pay for dev accounts.

Then contact me and lets deal. We launch with a subset of instagram features on both ios and android platforms. Send me a private mail on NL.

Dont do that. Never save images in a database except the images are valuable and cant be kept on the filesystem. What you need to do is to upload the images to your filesystem, get the path of the file and save just that path information in the database. So if you uploaded the image to images/uploads/ in your application directory, then save the image/uploads/myimage.jpg in the database. Saving images as blob is very inefficient and like i said only do this if there is a very important reason that the file cant be kept on your filesystem.

The issue is with you command to connect to mysql. If you are using command prompt as you said, then the command to connect would be like so:
mysql -u username -pPassword -h Host(optional)
so for example : username=root password=admin
mysql -u root -padmin

There are instances you may need to specify a host assuming your database is not running on localhost but on a specific ip address

I quite appreciate your effort but permit to share my observations about your program.

I recommend you pass parameters to your functions rather than use global variables(variables that can be seen across functions) in your program. For a program as small as this, this is negligable but its a very good practice when you are writing very large programs. Trust me when your program gets very huge, it would be a nightmare.

But its a good effort. Forget what anyone is saying. C is a truely unique language in a world of its own.

proxy20:
Your Algorithm would be too slow because no filter to monitor phone calls , text of millions and Internet activities all at once . One hour may crash the system .

This is a very big project that requires database centres like Google and Facebook . One terabyte per minute is not an easy setup .

I dont think it would be slow in the age of c1000k and c10000k systems.

[quote author=proxy20 post=44576741][/quote]I dont think it would be slow in the age of c1000k and c10000k systems.

larisoft:
for computers to be bought into the equation, we have to assume that relevant data is already available and need to be processed into information. how these data are gotten is not our businesses but that of the law enforcement agents

In addition to your contribution. Most agencies employ human operatives to gather information(sigint). The information they gather is fed into the system we are proposing in addition to data that is collected. Although this systems are very complex, they already exist around the world. One such system exist in Nigeria (online gossip).

On a scale of 1-10, how good are you as a programmer? Contact me and lets discuss.

For the purpose of multithreading in IOS or OSX you use an async block called GCD(grandcentral dispatch). Basically what this does is allow you to run intensive task in the background without blocking the UI. If you want to use real threads in your application(i discourage this as GCD is adequate for most uses), you can use pthreads or any other c/c++ thread library.

dhtml18:
At long last. . . . . .you forgot to add that he is a better programmer than dhtml18!

Well most of his work is original stuff, so you can be the judge of that. Its the thinking behind is solutions that makes him a good programmer. Programming is more about you go about trying to solve the problem.