₦airaland Forum

teampregar:
To me i think Nairaland is broken, Asin, a lot of features has been added on nairaland without proper documentation or arrangment, so therefore the nairaland team is afraid to change any code or mke any update...

What do you mean by proper documentation? or arrangement?

I don't see how that affects a web app.

if you talk about architectural or design pattern, well that's possible if nairaland wasn't built on the solid principles. And that will lead to an OOP designed app harder to maintain and extend...

But, hold on, just because Nairaland isn't doing it does not mean they can't. Over the years, Nairaland has maintained a tradition of a specific interface. And tradition is what can make you unique as well.

Hey, it's a project, I don't think you will want to go too hard on yourself. This is not a time to learn but to act as you will definitely be facing a timeline... 

The question is how vast are you with any of this technologies? That's definitely going to affect your delivery time. 

Here are my advice
Use frameworks wisely. 
1. Twitter bootstrap for the Front-End -html, css. It will hasten your speed. 

How large do you want to make it? 
If it is something minimal that you can always extend and yet fully functional, don't use a framework for the back-end, that will be an overkill. This tutorial will speed you up... 

http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-phpmysql-powered-forum-from-scratch--net-10188

However, if you want to take the challenge, step it up... then 
2. Laravel for back-end- php, MySQL 

This tutorial will guide you up as a beginner as well...

https://daylerees.com/codebright/

3. NEGLECT JQUERY/JAVASCRIPT or at least till you get the forum working. These are meant to enhance the website. Not compulsorily make it work. 


First thing first, know your supervisor, what he will like to expect. When I did my own project, my aim is to project the population of Lagos State University at a time when the population is dwindling down due to the fee hike to about 250k. On presenting my proposal to my supervisor, he expected something high from me, to project the population of Nigeria in years to come... 

That's when I knew that I have caused more trouble for myself. There are so many factors to consider, birth rate, death rate (with consideration of BH bombings as well) and immigrations as key factors. He requested me to get some data from The National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria of which I did... 

I would have caused more havoc to myself if I had wanted to provide something very concrete taking all possible factors cos I will end up using an higher order partial differential equations to generate an equation that does project it much more accurately. 

But it's a research that will take more time than your semester can give you. 

So I settled down for an higher order of ordinary differential equation taking the rate of population changes with respect to time. 

At the end of it, I was pretty damn very close to that of NBS projections and they must have used sophisticated tools. I even went an extra mile to conduct a statistical test to prove my good results. 

Anyways, at the end of it, I am happy with myself, got a lot of thumbs up from the panels as well as questions I wasnt able to answer. As far as I know, we were expecting to confirm my research work by correlating it with the census that was supposed to be carried out In 2016. (that is 10 years to the last one conducted). Census is not even on the agenda right now. And I wonder where my project is right now. In the dustbin? (I've seen some people's own there) or nicely kept somewhere waiting for that confirmation day. 


Here is my advice, I can see you have the passion like I did then, so do it do it for yourself, for the love of Learning, Studying, and Research! 

God help you with a lecturer like mine that will stretch your brain to make you do what you won't believe you could have pulled off .I owe him.

Good luck man!

jstemmanex:
Pls wats d estimate of havin a website, a guy told me 10k last wk nd wit d prices I c here, cld he av added d cost of web designing

Oops! Maybe you should ask him. Ask him about hosting as well.

Your reply just gave back some confidence to all viewers of the thread...

plus 1 for the address.
Okay. I'll get in contact.

Pardon me to ask...

Does West Africa Bloggers awards have a blog or not?

That may sound attacking, am sorry but it just doesn't feel right or probably well organised.

If there won't be a corporate web address to organise such event for it practitioners, please do use a corporate email. yourname.surname@gmail.com is far better than the Nick you used which both is still not better than yourname@westafticabloggersawards.com

Good evening

lawmani:
Siasia is a usless coach.
His ego will kill him
Who are your 3 over aged players?
Why is Alex Iwobi, Issac Success, Awoniyi, etc?
If brasil went with Nyemer then why can he go with our best over aged. .like musa?
We only have 1 overaged that Mikel
Siasia is a Usless coach!
Nonsense!

na now this statement Kon dey meaningful abi una nawaoo

Other banks will be like... "Let's plant an undercover and see how they will survive in this kind of country, probably we will collapse our branches as well"

Cashless Bank, Branchless Bank

sam6055:
cant you just post like a professional... I mean be able to arrange the post in order and simple understanding....

It will be kind of you for an illustration. That will be great! Thanks

[quote author=DESNAT post=48342582][/quote]Really sharp guy. Na hot slap go follow...

I wish I could kneel right in front of a girl on 3rd Mainland Bridge asking that magical sentence that almost make any girl crying, saying Yes! yes!! yes!!! hurriedly.

Like seriously, is it always a YES? I haven't seen this in real life though but it is in every Hollywood films I've watched...

Have you ever been in such scenario with a No as an answer? While kneeling down?

wait oo, 'Do Nigerians do this in the first place?

And to the sharp guys, how will you cover up?

You know, that's why I probably got a D in English for my waec! Thank God for Neco back then...

dhtml18, have you watched arrows? I will like to borrow some of his sentences...

You'r someone else,
You'r something else,
You'r the funny troll master!

Go to GitHub
Learn from people's repository, add yours and make the world better

logicalhumour:
Sorry, I should have used Google but iam on freebasics. My command prompt 's path is

c:\Document and setting\Administrator>_

I want to change it to

c:\>_

use
c:\Document and setting\Administrator> cd/


you still use xp?

May I? As the answer is quite not the answer...

URI means Uniform Resource Identifier.
URL means Uniform Resource Locator.

and a term which the op never mentioned about but related...

URN means Uniform Resource Name

Now...
An Identifier (or say URI) can be a Locator or a Name.

If we are to relate this in English terms, that's very true...
As an illustration, I can identify the op by Name or by Location of where he lives.

In technical terms, I will use the same examples used before

Here is a URL....
https://www.nairaland.com/3268365/what-difference-between-url-uri#48179571

and here is a URN
www.nairaland.com/3268365/what-difference-between-url-uri#48179571

And either of them can generally be called URI.

Notice the difference between the two of them?
yeah! it's HTTP which is simply a transfer protocol which takes its action on the Transport Layer of the OSI Model. Hence if something is responsible for transportation, then it helps to locate something which in our own case now, a name...

If you ask, what is the name, it is simply the file + the path. that is...

www.nairaland.com/3268365/what-difference-between-url-uri#48179571

Which simply illustrate that there is an html file titled 'what-difference-between-url-uri#48179571' in a folder '3268365' which is in a root folder 'www.nairaland.com' ...

Now, if you notice, I haven't mentioned about slug at all, that is because it isn't part of the specification used to build the www.

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I hope I clarified this enough! If you need some reference, your final destination should be at w3.org

I wrote something about this on my blog NoT quite long. But it's from the perspective of the common misconceptions about URI.

tag: 2awesome, dhtml18

proxy20:
Yeah bro sketch and Photoshop is alot better in Ui design because you can slice it to Java XML or html, css or a bootstrap template in iOS , Cordova , web and android dev.

Sketch is proprietary... and still for Mac users alone.

That makes it kinda sucks

lordZOUGA:
So, I made this UI this morning.

I decided to use Nairaland's current UI palette.

Thoughts?

I love the first one being simple and cool.

I love the second for the colour used to garnish the icons... Personally, I think the blue text colour makes it looks shouty...

Using Pencil?? I had like to substitute it for Photoshop when making my prototypes. why? for the sake of open source that's crazy right? yup.

I guess you should elaborate more on the Whats and Whys of the project since you are requiring for an unpaid collaboration. Well, that's if the project won't be proprietary...

A little more about 'What I need from you' makes it a much more friendlier approach...

Hello, domainkingteam

I am having errors paying for a domain name. it says on cashenvoy that : otp required, may or may not have been enabled.

I am using my Gtbank MasterCard token for the transaction.

Any help, same error with voguepay

expertix:
Well! my advise to you is to get the actual knowledge first; keep reading and reading every where that has to do with domain business and it will get to the time when you are ripe enough, the profits will start coming.

Domaining is like every other business that requires studies, but many thought it is a get reach quick business which is not so, as it takes procedure to make money via domaining biz. just keep it up and buy good domains and then you will see that people will start coming for your properties.

Cheers.

Thanks bro. Those words instilled some confidence in me.

Chibenze:
Are you sure u register/ buy the right domain?
Check page 252 and 322 for some tips to assist/ mentor you. Good luck

checked like 3 times before today. I adapt the techniques. what I think I haven't gotten right is how to contact a viable seller. How do you go about it?

Guys, I need your help. I've tried this domain name business and I've not gotten a head start. Trust me, am the Google kind of person but I couldn't wrap my head with selling my domains(just two though).

I guess I need someone to guide me, like do this and this, it works this way... like a mentor.

I had like to make some mentions but since I am the dullest on this problem, your inputs are all welcome.

like seriously, who is going to mentor me? Pls Pls. I will drop my whatsapp number if you wish to help!!! even if it is just once, I know am not a zombie , I can pick up from there. Thanks friends
...

Etotaziba:
But i got a mail challenging me to finish before friday, 8th of July, 2016 is it that they extended the deadline to 18th?

Date is same as mine. No invite yet

d33types:
why you must not install whatsapp plus...

nice list. In fact, it should be whatsapp minus