Justiceuphold:
@simiolu1, thanks for the update. Can you kindly check your inbox, I sent you a pm . Thanks

I said I replied. And you even sent your PM twice even though I replied the first one. Now, there;s nothing in my inbox to check. Maybe you don't know how the PM system works.

drpips1:



Hello simiolu1 , please i want to ask about resolving this situation, i recently moved from region of the country to another, how can i resolve the location issue for the meetup, i already sent a mail but i have not seen any reply yet......thanks

Those guys are dealing with a lot of issues. Your e-mail would eventually be replied. Once the launch party is over, and you still haven't gotten an answer, make noise in the Slack channel.

Justiceuphold I have replied your PM

officialcharlz:
for those who have gotten in, what data plans do you suggest?

Data plans are dependent on location. Use what people report in your area that is fast. If you are in an area where swift, spectranet, smile or ntel work and can afford the modem; you should go for those. If not, just subscribe for something in the range of 3 - 4 GB per month

bjhaid:
thanks man, not a beginner like that, gainfully employed already and busy with laravel, Alc could've have just been a plus

You welcome

Darey00:


Thanks for this boss!! That Slack tho, the day I installed it on my phone I no even understand it all..
Awaiting further instructions from Andela tho

Slack can be very overwhelming. Just take your time with it

bjhaid:
yeah bro

I would advice you to be patient. So many things are responsible for not getting in. One of them is applying late. Chimdi the program coordinator tweeted that they received over 1000 applications in the first 24hours that the applications were made open.

I would also advice that you befriend someone who has gotten in. The person can give you the videos and you would follow along. If they are given assignment, do it. Follow them learn the thing. The only difference is that you won't have a certificate to back it up.

This was how I learned how to use a computer. I would collect the handouts of my friends who enrolled for desktop publishing in those days and look for somewhere to practice. Today, none of them can match me when it comes to computer knowledge.

Bless up

w3bh4ck:
90% And I got a mail......... So how does it work?.... is it gonna be 100% online?....

The course is online. You would have to open an Udacity account to take the courses. But you should wait to get instructions. You would need data too... lots of it because course content is delivered through videos.

You can decide to get all the videos of the course content at once but the courses are designed in such a way that there is a progress monitor for your account for every video you watch. This progress monitor would be part of your assessment. So in the end, there is no escaping watching the videos online.

You would be invited to a slack channel and subsequently, organized into WhatsApp groups. The slack channels would be very crowded and rowdy; so don't let it overwhelm you. Just follow instructions and you would be fine. The WhatsApp groups would be saner.

Then there are going to be physical meetups which are organized and grouped by your state of residence and location. The meetups are basically to go over the course content and smoothen out areas that people are having issues with.

I suggest that you be active at meetups. Let people know that there is a problem you can solve for them. At my meetup, I was the gradle guy. If anyone had issues with Android studio, I was the go to guy. Contribute too. Watch the videos and understand them before going for the meetups. It would enable you help others.

I got a job offer from the guy handling the meetup I used to attend because of this. I declined the offer though.

Then don't default on your assignments. And do them yourself. A lot of people look for ways to boycott not doing the assignments. But they are putting themselves in poo. The course is designed in such a way that the knowledge builds up. By doing the assignments, you apply what you have learnt and you can judge yourself if you are lagging in some areas.

If you can lay hands on study materials for the track you applied for, it would be a good thing too. So that you can hit the ground running once the course starts.

If you are for web, install the necessary software you would need like code editor ( I would suggest VS Code). Jeffery Way of laracasts.com just published a VS Code series that you should take a look at. I know the web track would be using the MEAN (MongoDB, Express, Angular and NodeJS) stack. So you should also find a way to install node.js and Mongo DB.

The total size of the packages of the MEAN stack should not be over 1GB. I'm not sure though.

If you are for the Android track; then install Android studio. Believe me, this would save you a lot of stress later. The reason is because to install Android studio and get it functional, you would need to install the Java SDK. Android Studio version 3.0 currently clocks in at almost 2GB for the installer. Then you would need to download SDK libraries.

And please, these softwares are not things you can easily come across in computer village. You would only come across them from developer geeks like you. So, spending time to prepare for the course is time well spent.

In the end, starting is easy; finishing is the hard part. All the best

Chigojude:


I guess I wasn't selected...when is the next cohort application starting. I really desire to be an Andelan.

The cohort program is different from ALC.

And applications are already open for the next cohort. Visit the Andela website to apply

Built2last:


He usually sends his crusade preparation money and free books months ahead. There are many religious organizations in Europe committed to evangelists and missionaries. They fund it. What Nigerian churches should do. How many church in Nigeria have missions department. When was the last time your pastor raised a special offering or seed to support people in most dangerous places preaching the gospel

I don't know the specific number of churches that have missions department but I know RCCG has. My branch in Lagos has at least 5 mission fields that I know of including one in the Bahamas

musicwriter:
People, use your brains.

The EFCC have no case whatsoever against her. That's why they won't want her in Nigeria, cause if she eventually arrive here, all the fake news about stolen billions would be busted, and Nigerians would realize how much the APC, Lai Mohamed and co has fooled everyone. Just think!.

"Nigeria have the biggest number of imbeciles"........ Wole Soyinka.

The EFCC has no case according to you. So why is she begging them to try her? If she knows she is innocent, let her go prove it to the UK authorities. Shikena

Iya Nkechi, abeg give me a plate of goat meat peppersoup and big orijin. Abeg, give Shagati nkwobi and odeku make he take use knack body. This work go long small. We suppose encourage the op.

Abeg who get toothpick? Meat debris dey my teeth wey no wan comot.

If na me, I go name the car WidowMaker. If you no understand, abeg go watch the review wey Jeremy Clarkson do for that correct machine wey dem dey call McLaren P1

ezzylee:
Lol.... Cross Country is the worst transport company I've ever taken when travelling.

My first time going to Ghana, I went with them. They'll tell you they'll start the journey by 6am, journey won't start until 9 or 10am. You'll now enter Ghana around 1am the next day (all this delay and all happened in all the 4 times I went with them).

Had some friends that were coming back to Nigeria with cross country. As usual, cross country told them to come by 5am this time. Their bus didn't leave the park until 11am. They were still in Ghana as at 4pm. They slept at aflao border that day and got into Nigeria the next day in the morning/afternoon.

Since I noticed all these things, I vowed not to do anything with them again. Now GUO is BAE.
GUO would leave Ghana 6am and I'll be at iyana ipaja by 3pm..... My house by 4 or 5pm.

1 million likes for you. GUO beats all other transport company hands down. I served in Imo. Every time I did Iyana Ipaja - Imo, it was always with GUO. Well maintained buses and no unnecessary delay. Even during a fuel crisis, the bus I boarded did not stop to queue at a filling station for fuel. And they are cheaper than GiG and Cross Country!

The best part is that they tell you upfront the route the driver is going to take so that you'll know before hand how to plan your journey. They even gave me a Calendar. GUO is bae

LordeCalifornia:
I've finally rectified it. I missed a point in the instructions earlier on.
Thanks for painstakingly listing out the steps. Gracias!

Correct!!!

asalimpo:

I think you are misconstruing what i said.
if i'm coding and testing code in a directory, they'll be a .bat file there.
Either created from a text editor or a copy of one of the bat files on my system.
That's it. When i want to compile code, i just click on the bat file in the current directory and it will be at the current directory. The only work involved is in creating the bat file or copying it to the current directory i'm working on. This is shorter than clicking start button, copying directory path to it etc.

creating a bat file in current working directory -method1:
enter directory-> rightclick "create new text document"->open text document->enter "start"->save as dot bat->click .bat file (it opens a command prompt in current directory).

moving to a new directory:
copy the bat file->paste it in new direcotory. -> click to open command prompt.
To me it aint work any more thn creating a java file is work.

method2:
open command prompt (windowsKey+R):->enter cmd in the pop up window->go to current working directory(switch back)->go to mouse. move it to address bar->right click to select path->right click to copy->switch out to cmd->paste path in cmd->click enter to open cmd in path!!

Method 2, your recommendation is simply way to time consuming and slow. Switching context while working affects concentration. Method1,the method is currently use, is simply easier on the mind and concentration. No context switches.
It's bad for programming and fragments focus.


But i'll try the first option u gave and see how it goes.

Its all in the way you organize your projects and personal preference. For example, all the github projects I save to my PC are in a folder named Github in my C drive. Same with my Java projects. So I will be having something like C:\Javaprojects\<projectname>. But if I bury them in nested directories on my desktop, I would be having something like C:\Users\<username>\Desktop\Javaprojects\<projectname>.

Out of the two, we can both agree that the former is easier to type than the latter. So that is how I organize all my projects and moving from one project to another simply consists of exiting out of a directory and entering into another directory.

Then I also have Git installed on my PC and it comes with Git Bash which is the command line of Linux. It also has a context menu that allows me to right click and start Bash in the current directory. Check the screenshot attached. And believe me, bash changes everything for me.

Also this way, projects are not littered around my PC like say na goat sh!t.

LordeCalifornia:

In line 7,

You edit before typing. And I said click on Edit. I didn't say click on edit text

And I think it is straight forward enough. From step 6 to step 7.

It is when you select "Path" and click edit that another pop up would display what you would actually edit

asalimpo:

added command prompt to folder option? I didnt know of that. I'll check it out.
I've got so many .bat files that when working or testing i just copy one of them somewhere into the current directory click it and i'm good to go.

i tried that and it opened in <userName> directory.
It's all good then.

This your workflow na helele. Issa inefficient something.

Do a Google search for "add command prompt to folder option." You should see something that asks you to download a batch file. This is preferable if you are not too comfortable modifying Windows Registry by yourself.

Another way is to open command prompt the default way, copy the folder address of the folder you want to work in from Windows explorer address bar, paste into command prompt and press enter. Cmd would change directory to the directory you pasted.

Both are still better thank copying batch file upandan

asalimpo:

Ok, i'm on win7 too.
i'm not really sure which one requires a restart, but usually i just restart. Mayb i'm confusing things with
adding a jar file to the classpath. One isnt seen by the system until after a restart.
- windows key + R. I never knew that. I stated how i usually do things when reinstalling.
The benefit of creating a .bat file is that , you can open the cmd from any directory, rather than the desktop.
That way compiling can be done in a special folder,rather than littered around the system.
Again,that's just my way.

Well if that's how you see it. To each his own. But I have added the Command Prompt to the folder menu options on my PC. So I can just right click on a folder and select "Command Prompt". This would open the Command Prompt and set the directory to the folder.

I don't know how you set up your PC but except I use the above method to open Cmd; my PC opens Cmd in C:\Users\<myusername> by default and not the desktop.

asalimpo:

12. restart your computer (for the new classpath variable to register) then type javac at the command prompt.
- dont know how to create a command prompt window?
open notepad or anytext editor of ur choice. type "start". save it as <anyNameOfUrChoice e.g win>.bat.
.Save it as a file only (select 'All files' in the file type list) .
- click on it, then type 'javac'.
if you see a screen full on nanshense, dont panic!! Your installation was successful if you see 'command not recognize' something went wrong..

Oga, na long thing be this o.

To open a Command Prompt Window, do any of the following
1. Press the Windows key on the keyboard and type "cmd.exe". If you don't have administrator privileges, right click on the result and select "Run as administrator".

2. Use the following key combo "Windows Key + R". It would open a pop-up. In the pop-up box, type "cmd.exe".

At the bolded, I never restart my PC when setting a PATH variable. My OS is Windows 7 Pro but OP can to fulfill all righteousness

It depends on so many factors. I have always asked my brothers for advice when I encounter any challenge in a relationship that is above my thinking cap. And they have never failed to advice me as to what is best even when I am not comfortable with it. If na me Bleep up, they tell it to my face.

Because of this, I will most probably go to them for martial advice IF the thing pass my power. Na them be my Papa and Mama as Papa and Mama have gone to be with Baba God.

I also don't fail to tell any lady I am dating that I would rather have her report me to my brothers as they are her fathers-in-law.

LordeCalifornia:

New download?
Hehe. Alright I'd do that when I buy more data. Thanks

If you will ever become a good programmer, having internet access is very crucial.

But to set your classpath

1. Go to the directory where the jdk is installed. Open the "bin" folder.
Click inside the windows explorer address bar to reveal the full address of the directory. Copy the address.
2. Press the Windows key on your keyboard and type "environment variables".
3. Click " edit system environment variables".
To do this, the OS would verify if you have administrator privileges.
4. On the resulting pop-up screen, click "environment variables". It is located just above the OK and Cancel buttons.
5. On the resulting pop-up dialog, scroll down the " system variables" tab. Look for "Path".
6. Once you see " Path" click on it once to highlight it then click "Edit".
7. Navigate the cursor to the last position.
Prrssing " End" on your keyboard is faster than using the directional keys.
Type a semicolon " ;" then paste the address of the folder you copied earlier.
There should not be a space between the semi colon and what you paste.
8.Click OK. To apply changes. Click OK again and again till the "System Properties" window closes.
9. Open Command Prompt.
10. Type "javac"
If you followed all the steps correctly, this command would execute without errors.

You can also do "javac -version" to know the version of the jdk you have installed.

Happy coding

Can you teach someone how to program in 6 days?

Yes.

But chances are that the person would not be able to build anything "meaningful" with just 6 days knowledge of programming.

asalimpo:
As far as nairaland is a monopolistic operator there is no incentive for it to change.
Competition genders creativity.
e.g There was once almighty NITEL (if you were old enough then), did they improve?
Telecoms got privatized and voila, NITEL was now in a sea of sharks. IT died disgracefully since it couldnt compete. Gone were the days of subsidization of inefficiency and gross irresponsibility and corruption.

Seun, will not do anything to improve this section.. Say all u want to say. Write reams. Nothing will happen.
He's all after traffic and numbers to grease his pocket. If this section is heavily curated, nonsense posts will
reduce. touts and trolls will reduce, views will reduce, revenue will reduce. Seun doesnt want that.
So, this section will continue to b a pit latrine of crappy posts. Who cares as far as money keep rolling in?

On a side note, I read somewhere that drugs companies are not interested in funding research that could produce cures for cancer because,Cancer medication is a huge market for them. Producing a cure will kill their
cash cow!! Same for AIDS!! The government can't force them, their legally blameless, but morally ... ?

In as much as I like the Ops observations, the sad reality is that Nairaland would never change. The OP is not the first person to suggest changes to Seun. I even came across a topic on radar that talked about some changes Seun ought to make. Funny enough, Seun commented on that thread and promised to make the changes. Over one year later, he still has not made those changes.

One of those changes was that ad links should open in a new tab instead of taking the user away from Nairaland on the same tab. Adding a simple "target = "_blank"" to the codebase would fix this. Yet Seun has not done it.

If a simple change like that has not been made, how would a whole Programming section have new features like code formatting etc. The sad truth is that Nairaland would be like this for a verrrrrrrrrrry loooooooooong time

DharkPoet:

Quick question, how does one implement queues say in PHP?

Unfortunately, that question is beyond the scope of this thread. Also, I cannot give you a comprehensive anser just like that. Google it, visit stack overflow and different blogs. By the time you read 10blog posts and try a few times, you would get it.

bearnana:
I don't think scalability of applications is much about performance.

Its more about how to manage, if a lot of hands were to get on deck.

To explain my point I'd share a personal experience since you are talking PHP:
I worked on an application where the devs who handled the code before used procedural and the client wanted to build a Software Department to manage the application. It was difficult to understand the application and the variable types the devs before had done. So we were tasked to build the application from ground up in a very short space of time.

Some rules I have learnt in my short time on this coded planet.

1: Your application won't scale if it wasn't designed to scale. i.e. Don't use procedural if your application would one day have a very large number of users and would have a software department.

2: Simple Architecture is good if you are starting i.e Try to optimize your code base for speed (this is different fro performance; your code performs and your code performs fast are two different things. Every codebase is designed to perform, not all codebase is designed to perform fast...)

3: Think about database type. Since you mentioned LAMPP, I am assuming that you are using MYSQL for backend. It may not be as important as the first two rules when starting out but you would have to consider database engine type ISAM, MyISAM, InnoDB.

These are the ones I can think off the top of my head. The other ones are when you have reached about 500k users. You might want to think of load balancers and redundant firewalls, maybe more webservers for performance. By then you would also have to factor splitting your database read and writes. Before you get to this stage, there should be enough money to hire me to help you out...

But first off, if you are thinking of scaling at this early stage, THINK OF YOUR CODEBASE!!!

I want to disagree a little with some things you wrote.

In the perfect developer world, everyone writes OOP, deploys with Git and can set up AMP on a Linux server from scratch. In reality, a lot of developers still write spaghetti code, have never hosted outside shared hosting, don't know how to use git and have never even set up AMP talkless of using SSH.

My point is that we should allow people to learn and outgrow things. Believe me, when a developer grasps OOP, no one would tell him or her to drop spaghetti code. Then he or she would start to wonder how dumb they were coding like that in the first place. Saying that spaghetti code can't scale is not entirely true. It can if you scale out the infrastructure but one day while writing a new feature, someone is going to break.something.

I signed up on Twitter late 2008 and back then, the service broke almost every day. Instagram in its early days broke a couple of times too. But those people and teams learnt from those mistakes. I once heard Jan Koum (the CEO) of WhatsApp say that the only reason why WhatsApp has been stable was that the two founders were former employees of Yahoo who had experienced how to scale a digital product at Yahoo.

Scaling a product is hard; only a few developers would get to do it in their lifetimes. A lot of those would make mistakes when doing it for the first time. They would learn from it and move on.

First off, scaling is majorly about 3 things

1. Your codebase.

Is your software efficient? Can you squeeze a little more juice out of it by refactoring? Are you using queues in the right places? Anything that can be delayed until a later time should be queued. Examples include transactional e-mails like Password resets, invoice recepits etc. If you are transcoding audio files or video files; abeg use a queue to do that then send notifications to the user when it is done (Facebook does this when you upload videos). If your users are uploading files and you are storing those files in the cloud using Dropbox, S3, G Cloud, Cloudinary etc, find a way to make sure those files are being uploaded to the cloud straight away instead of them being stored on your server first before being moved to the cloud. If you are using an MVC framework or architecture, make sure your controllers are not doing too much or everything. Make use of traits and services.

2. Your infrastructure. I don't think you would want to build a software and scale it using a shared hosting solution. Get a cloud service for your infrastructure. DanielTheGeek has talked about that.
However, from my experience using AWS Elastic Load Balancers, you can configure an auto-scaling group that would scale your servers based on traffic. You can configure your group to have at least 2 servers running (the best configuration) and the load balancer routes requests to each one simultaneously in such a way that one server is not overworked at the expense of another.

3. Your database. I would not like to go into database engines and the best one for your software but to scale your DB, cache the most frequent queries your users have. Memcached and Redis are the best in this category. Caching reduces the number of queries hitting your database and allows your DB to rest a little. Then have more than one DB server running. You would then set a time of the day when you generally have reduced traffic that these DBs would sync.

loveymom:

thanks for getting back.
non of the options are applicable. thanks a lot.

How else do you think I was going to send you videos close to 5GB? By e-mail? Or did you not see the screenshots I posted?

loveymom:


can I also get the video for digital marketing?

You can. But there are questions you need to answer

1. Are you in Lagos?

If yes, getting the videos would be very easy. Send me a PM and we'll setup a meetup for a weekend.

If no, do you have any friend or family in Lagos that would not mind meeting with me to help you get the videos?

If your answer to these two questions are no, then you have to figure out how to get a high capacity flash drive or an external hard drive to me. I would then copy the videos on the flash and send the device back to you

Alexgeneration:
I sent you a mail Bro

And I have replied that e-mail. Or did I not?

neyobills:



This is a no case scenario

Does davido have any legal duty to stop him from drinking......NO
Davido can only be complicit if the deceased is under 18 years or he was tied and forced by Davido to drink the tequila

Is it legal to drink as many bottles as u want ....Yes

That is why it is clearly stated on the alcohol bottles to drink responsibly and the plus 18 sign

Is it legal for him to order his police escort to go and take escort his friends car from wherever he might have been unconscious to the hospital and access the situation......Absolutely.

Some weeks ago a girl died in a basement freezer in a hotel in the US and the cctv footage shows her obviously staggering to the basement after been stoned peole think she might have been saved if her friends had tried to look out for her a bit more,as u have seen on the footage davido was obviously trying to help out and would rather say big ups to him.However nobody in the world knows when he is gonna die even you so it was just some innocent clubbing,getting high and all

However he can always be invited for questioning by the police anytime they deem fit to help investigations since they were together on the day of the incident doesnt make him complicit in any way.

Thank you for your contribution. We are all learning. Even the Police are not accusing anyone of murder yet; they are only asking questions which they should. I would be more.worried if they did not.

What I did was to paint a picture of what cases could look like so that the person I quoted would desist from the beer parlour argument of "them no carry gun put for him head or force am".

The fact I only tried to establish was that encouraging a crime is itself a crime. And you are right, drinking is absolutely legal. Thank you once again

mpowa:

There is no case to answer here. it's unfortunate the guy had to die, but police can't accuse anyone of anything.They were partying, they were having fun, irresponsibly though, but it wasn't like the guy was drinking poison and they encouraged him or he wants to shoot himself and they encouraged him. It's not everyday people die of drinking, it was unfortunate it turned to death, but nobody will be accused of murder or conspiracy, it was fun gone bad.

It was fun gone bad; true.
They were partying; true.
Is partying illegal? No.
Would the Police ask questions when someone ends up dead hours after attending a party? Definitely.

And the Police is not accusing anyone of anything yet. They only want to know how a guy who was drinking some hours ago suddenly ended up in a hospital DOA (Dead On Arrival). But you entirely missed the point I was trying to make in my post.

I should have said complicity, not conspiracy (my bad) and complicity is a very strange dice in law and people get convicted for it on the most ridiculous and flimsy excuses you can ever hear. And one of those reasons can be encouraging someone to take an unreasonable amount of alcohol (reason number 1) and an autopsy report which indicates that the person died as a consequence of that alcohol intake (reason number 2). The key word here is unreasonable. If it was one shot or two, no one would be making noise. But 30 (or 40 as some people claim)? Damn; that's high. And please note those two conditions.

Complicity is the participation in a completed criminal act of an accomplice, a partner in the crime who aids or encourages (abets) other perpetrators of that crime, and who shared with them an intent to act to complete the crime. A person is an accomplice of another person in the commission of a crime if they purpose the completion of a crime, and toward that end, if that person solicits or [b]encourages the other person, or aids or attempts to aid in planning or committing the crime, or has legal duty to prevent that crime but fails to properly make an effort to prevent it..

Is drinking a crime? No.
Did someone end up dead? Yes.
Was the death from natural causes? No.
Was a crime committed? Maybe.
If reason number 2 that I mentioned above was fulfilled, then the Police would ask if they encouraged him when he was taking that alcohol.
Did they? Yes.
Do you now get my point?
In the end, that autopsy report saved them from a lot of Police wahala. Can we both agree on that?