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ProgrammingRe: Urgent: Interview (programmer) by Zahymaka(m): 11:53pm On May 19, 2007
I would say from experience that if you were given a simple program to write, or implement in pseudocode, then that's very normal. If on the other hand -- from the way it sounds -- you're required to build a full-fledged application that would qualify as a project in your dictionary, the odds are ten to one you're being used. . . under the pretext of 'being interviewed.'
WebmastersRe: Developing Online Examination Website by Zahymaka(m): 7:54pm On May 19, 2007
I've done something along those lines before, but only as a test. How much are you willing to pay? [PS: I'm not in Nigeria]
ComputersRe: Screenshots of Our PC Desktops by Zahymaka(m): 11:37pm On May 18, 2007
WesleyanA:
@Zahymaka

"valid until: 22/12/3123" lol
You never know -- I might still be around then.
LiteratureRe: Frederick Forsyth by Zahymaka(m): 10:46am On Mar 19, 2007
I don't know why, but I think The Fourth Protocol was his best -- probably because it was the first Forsyth book I read and spawned my fascination with the Cambridge Five.

Forsyth is in a genre of his own because he gets everything right -- from the planning to the weaponry to the tiny details.
WebmastersRe: Site Review: PropertiesWithCash.com by Zahymaka(m): 10:38am On Mar 19, 2007
I'll just add a little to what I've seen.

I guessed when you showed it to me earlier that you'd been strong-armed into using a cursive font (as per knowing your style) and the nav looks good in it.

I see you made the width fixed. On higher resolutions (like mine), the space to the right is larger than that to the left. Perhaps aligning the entire block to the center would help.

There's a slight border difference between the hovered and the 'current' state ie the little black border that prevents the white from being continuous. I don't know how to put it but I'm sure you'll understand when you compare.

Cheers, and great job!
ProgrammingRe: Error Running Asp.net Application by Zahymaka(m): 2:59pm On Mar 18, 2007
This looks like one of the problems associated with not setting the folder permissions correctly on the server. Certain web.config directives require an application for the directory and in some cases, setting execute permissions to 'Scripts and Executables.'

Do you have any access to changing these on the server your app is hosted?

By the way, what tool do you use?
Forum GamesRe: Stereotypes! by Zahymaka(m): 7:46pm On Mar 12, 2007
Igbos love to play 'wayo'

Hausas beg

Yoruba people eat only amala and ewedu,
EducationRe: What Is The Meaning Of 'Deja Vu'? by Zahymaka(m): 3:13am On Aug 25, 2006
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LiteratureRe: Which Books/Novels Are You Currently Reading? by Zahymaka(m): 1:16am On Aug 23, 2006
chidexy:
Started reading the Golden Fox by Wilbur Smith today.
Greetings! I thought I was the only one who liked Wilbur Smith here. cheesy
LiteratureRe: Which Books/Novels Are You Currently Reading? by Zahymaka(m): 5:32pm On Aug 22, 2006
Just finished:

Gorky Park -- Martin Cruz Smith

About to finish the sequel:

Polar Star -- Martin Cruz Smith

Should get over with it in the next 1 hour. . .
TV/MoviesRe: Your Favorite Nigerian TV Programmes From The Past? by Zahymaka(m): 8:15am On Aug 22, 2006
Raymand:
HAHAHAHA Oh my gawd, man i remember jaguar! damn, i also remember that show you talked about, it had a name but became so famous the people at RSTV renamed the show to 'Alakalaka' NTA tried something like that, called 'Inside the giant pot'. . . wow, brings back old memeories! damn! grin
Those were the days! If na to choose between 'When you are mine' and Jaguar, na Jaguar I go take sharp sharp. cheesy
LiteratureRe: Which Books/Novels Are You Currently Reading? by Zahymaka(m): 5:59pm On Aug 20, 2006
I just finished:

The Drifters -- James Michener

Currently reading:

Gorky Park -- Martin Cruz Smith
SportsPing Pong (Table Tennis) Training Videos by Zahymaka(op): 5:56pm On Aug 20, 2006
Last week I went down to our local ping pong club at the YMCA and one of our irregular [but one of the very best] players had a turn with me and thrashed me soundly cheesy. He said I've got the right potential [my reflexes are very fast and I can stop a smash directly on the board or pick the ones very few people there can], but the reason I keep getting beat is because since I'm tall so I assume I can get the ball without moving [I stretch in either direction], and I play badly when competing but very well when not in a game.

He offered to give me a stack of ping pong training videos to work on my movement and my forehand grip [I use my backhand excessively in all positions especially when I'm smashing] as well as on my impatience. Unfortunately, I don't have a VCR and the only one I know of is in the library. I hate sitting there to watch movies and they're almost always occupied -- if a student who wants to watch an academic video comes in and all the others aren't free, I have to gice mine up.

Does anyone have an idea of where I can get [free] downloadable training DVDs and/or matches so I can observe the players? So far I've got some very short snippets from the Joo Se-Hyuk -- Werner Schlager finale in Paris 2003 but I haven't been able to get any other training videos.

If you've got any I can play on my system, I'll appreciate it if you can send it to me through YouSendIt. Thanks a lot.
TV/MoviesRe: Your Favorite Nigerian TV Programmes From The Past? by Zahymaka(m): 4:52pm On Aug 20, 2006
1. Jaguar [My belle oh, my head oh!] grin

2. I've forgotten the name but PH people who were around then should remember the one that featured Alakalaka, Njali, Panya, Ibiere and co.
WebmastersRe: Building Dynamic Websites With MySQL And PHP by Zahymaka(m): 4:45pm On Aug 20, 2006
damseremie:
The last message was actually from me . i mistakenly used someone else;s account who was already logged in. So here it is again


Thanks u all . Am yet to try it but i will and ill make sure i let u know what went RIGHT, (Or wrong). and to timmy yes i meant PhpMyAdmin not myphpadmin as i wrote earilier (well u got me).
: ill finish work on the site in the next 3 or 4 days so that ill put your solution to test.
Thanks again.
timmy Could u tell me exctly what details u need about my admin panel so that i can send them, (again remember am an amateur so bear with my questions if they seem foolish)
Idams it's so unclucky we don't meet online. I'd be glad to help you when I'm on. Just buzz me [I'm almost always invisible].
ProgrammingRe: Xml Programmers by Zahymaka(m): 3:51pm On Aug 20, 2006
qleyo:
http://qleyo.co.uk it is working :s
Great work. Few people bother to do any validation. wink. I stick to 1.1.
ProgrammingRe: Xml Programmers by Zahymaka(m): 2:58pm On Aug 20, 2006
qleyo:
no its that, its DNS issues - long story. But it should be working now :/
Not yet. . . undecided
ComputersRe: Wanna Buy My Ibm Laptop For 5k? by Zahymaka(m): 10:12am On Aug 20, 2006
50K for:

1. Pentium III 498MHz shocked

2. 11GB Hard Disk angry

3. 128MB RAM grin

4. Busted DVD ROM [e no even fit burn]. angry

5. 50-minute battery shocked

6. Just 1 USB port cry

[size=28pt]WAKE UP![/size]
HealthRe: What Do You Use When On Your Period? Tampons Or Pads? by Zahymaka(m): 1:07am On Aug 20, 2006
bluenubian:
wonder who else is on that list huh
Very special ladies! kiss
HealthRe: What Do You Use When On Your Period? Tampons Or Pads? by Zahymaka(m): 12:10am On Aug 20, 2006
bluenubian:
why da face, am jus curious?
You and KC have been added to my private list of the naughtiest Nairaland ladies. cheesy
FamilyRe: 95 Per-cent Of Nigeria's Teenage Girls Cannot Boast Of Being Virgins! by Zahymaka(m): 10:40pm On Aug 19, 2006
What's so special about a tiny membrane that stretches across a woman's entrance? What do you say to those who's hymens are so tough they have to be surgically punctured by a doctor. Are they any less woman because they were 'disvirgined' by a tool?

All this hype about virginity is very irrelevant in my opinion. As long as you kjeep a clean mind [unlike me cheesy], I don't think you have any problem. tongue
WebmastersRe: Creating Dynamic Pages Using Dreamweaver/php/mysql/asp/access by Zahymaka(m): 10:28pm On Aug 19, 2006
I hope I'm not going to step on any toes here.

When you want to do something quickly, using simple techniques, then perhaps Dreamweaver is good. I dropped Dreamweaver ages ago and use it only for designing Wordpress themes because the memory overhead is lower than the tool I use [Zend Studio].

There's a thin line between knowing where to use automatically generated code and where to write your own reusable libraries. For the purposes of this, I'll talk about PHP even though I also use ASP VB, Asp.NET C# and Asp.NET VB.

If for example, you want a more secure session, then it is always advisable to write your own session handler or else PHP might append your session id to all urls depending on the configuration. If you want to separate your data layer from your business logic, and you don't want to use a mighty database abstraction layer like PEAR DB, then it is always advisable to write yours [I've got mine which I use on almost every project].

Dreamweaver has its pros and cons, some of the cons being that it is so easy to write insecure code as well as to write code that won't parse because the syntax highlighting is still faulty [HEREDOC syntax is not recognized and unclosed blocks are not highlighted either].

If the alternatives you have are between Dreameaver and Notepad, then by all means use Dreamweaver. IF on the other hand you can get a tool that focuses specifically on the language you're interested in [e.g. Maguma Studio for PHP, Visual Web Developer for Asp.NET and AspWizard for ASP], then you're sure to get better coding help from the editor.

Well, that's my two cents [apologies to My2cents].
ProgrammingRe: Xml Programmers by Zahymaka(m): 10:12pm On Aug 19, 2006
qleyo:
XML is not a programming language its a document structure! You can parse XML in any language. I once wrote my own parser for some embedded C however languages like PHP, Java I know come with built in XML parsers.
Thanks for clearing that up. Actually, XML is best for presenting specific data like RSS and Atom. Elsewhere, I've discovered that the overhead on CSV or other formats is less when doing any sort of programming that requirees parsing XML. Methinks the usefulness of XML has been overhyped, although I have to admit it has it's uses when doing work on AJAX or using XML Data Islands for client-side scripting on the web.

The thing is knowing where to draw the line -- not every kind of data can be presented as XML.

You can always use XSL to transform XML into a more readable format -- e.g. the RSS 2.0 feed on my blog has been transformed [ http://azuka.zatechcorp.com/feed/ ].

qleyo, by the way I've never gotten your site to load everytime I tried. Getting too many hits?
HealthRe: What Do You Use When On Your Period? Tampons Or Pads? by Zahymaka(m): 10:06pm On Aug 19, 2006
bluenubian:
@kc
which di*ck have u been messing with that is as small as a tampon?
lipsrsealed lipsrsealed lipsrsealed lipsrsealed lipsrsealed lipsrsealed lipsrsealed lipsrsealed lipsrsealed shocked shocked shocked shocked
RomanceRe: Tall Sistas. Above 5ft 6in? Over 21? Register Here! by Zahymaka(m): 8:14pm On Aug 19, 2006
Zahymaka:
Methinks the first time you posted you were wearing high heels. tongue
. . . and now you're wearing a wig. . .
RomanceRe: Tall Sistas. Above 5ft 6in? Over 21? Register Here! by Zahymaka(m): 8:00pm On Aug 19, 2006
[quote author=must_a_far link=topic=20699.msg572195#msg572195 date=1156006384]i'm back and taller. are these the only tall people up in here. if yes then its a good thing. narrowing down my options would be as easy as fixing garri, milk and sugar. [s]i guess that clause that said must be over 21 knocked out a lot of unqualified options[/s]

since the last time i posted i think i have grown about a half inch taller or maibe its because i combed my hair extra.[/quote]Methinks the first time you posted you were wearing high heels. tongue
Forum GamesRe: Who Are You Missing Today? by Zahymaka(m): 5:09pm On Aug 19, 2006
dominobaby:
Lmao! Genial, true talk bruva, true talk @ Zah.
I'm an advocate of the truth wink.
WebmastersRe: The Youngest Blogger In Nigeria Is Only 13! by Zahymaka(m): 5:36am On Aug 18, 2006
I wonder why the two youngest bloggers are both 13, female and blog only about animals. Aren't there more interesting things? undecided

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