Bellview Airline Website Crash
Found in Channel : Random Talks — Tags: — Damilare @ 10:08 am 4 Comments »
“On October 22, 2005, Bellview Airlines Flight 210, a Boeing 737 aircraft with 117 people on board, crashed shortly after taking off from Lagos en route to the Nigerian capital Abuja. Early reports from Oyo state government officials claimed that at least half of those on board survived the crash, but later retracted that statement saying that that “the latest reports coming to us say that all the people on the plane died.” Confusion at the crash site was given as a cause for the mistaken figure. CNN reports that poor weather may have contributed to the crash. The crash inquiry is being aided by officials from Boeing and the United States National Transportation Safety Board. The flight data recorders have not yet been recovered, though pieces of their casing have been found. Angus Ozoka, a Nigerian official leading the crash investigation, said he believes the recorders were destroyed in the impact. Bellview resumed flights on October 24, 2005″. - Wikipedia
About a month later in there was an emergency landing in Kotoka International Airport in Ghana, which resulted to a license revocation by a aviation task force. Though Bellview has been re-authorized and have since resumed flight operations, the management may have learnt their lessons, but definately not the Web Developers. I noticed the error below on their website, this is so unprefessional for an airline company. Continue reading the post…
The Superwomen
Found in Channel : Random Talks — Damilare @ 5:51 am 1 Comment »
Behind every successful man is a woman, the bible also says “He who finds a woman of virtue, finds a good wife”, hence every man’s dream come true is hooking up with the right woman. A woman of virtue raises vibrant and healthy kids. She also drives the husband to success with support, love and care (vice versa). I grinned with envy watching Saheed, head of an admnistration, Lagos State University take home his wonderful bride, Tokunbo, home on the 23rd of August, 2008. This did not only prick my conscience with the “are you ready?” question, it also raised a fundamental question. What sort of woman makes a almost perfect one? Continue reading the post…
Introducing my curiosities…
Found in Channel : Just Curious... — Damilare @ 5:11 pm No Comments »
I am curious by nature. This explains my love for Philosophy and romance for Computer Science. But beyond problems of knowledge and artificial intelligence, little things about life prick my curiosity. Hence, the birth of yet another channel on Damilare.net
“Just Curious..” is born. From time to time, I’d be making my ignorances public in this channel. Topics would be anything that comes to mind, things that need explainations. If you want to peep into my distubred mind, Just Curious… is the place to be.
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Do Computers Think
Found in Channel : Philosophy — Damilare @ 12:28 pm 1 Comment »
“Computers cannot think, but computers think”, that was the stupid (lets leave it at stupid for now, till we judge) response to the question during my discussion with Big Seg and Funmi on our way from Wasimi. Funmi, a final year law student of OAU had critically accused me of concluding hastily. But I quickly escaped siting the erroneous nature of man. I responded by saying “I am not a thinking-thing, but a human being prone to mistakes and errors” Big Seg then came in by drawing me to my statement. “What is a thinking-thing?” was the question. Trust me now, before saying PHP, I had said Computers! Then the main argument began. Do Computers Think?
I had never given it a real thought, maybe because I am not a ‘real’ philosopher. I had always centered my thoughts around Computers, Machines and Robots helping man to build the world, just like Man helps the creator (If any) to build the world. The fundamental question, “do computers think?”, never crossed my mind, except for sometime last year in an epistemology class when Prof. Sophie Oluwole dabbled briefly into AI. Continue reading the post…
How to be a Ninja Web Developer
Found in Channel : Web Development — Damilare @ 9:33 pm No Comments »
The topic is “How to be a Ninja Web Developer“, not a “Naija Web Developer” I am not mistaken, trust me. A friend inspired this post. I had to evaluate the way I develop web applications following our invigorating debate on using frameworks or not. This also poses a question of whether to reuse libraries, pre-written scripts, templates or more. While I wouldn’t answer the posed questions, I’d go ahead and talk about how to be a Ninja Web developer, but first, who is a Ninja Web Developer?
A Ninja Web Developer has a fighting attitude to web development. He (or she) is fighting against, Comrade Time and Comrade Money. How much was he paid for the project, what he stands to gain, and what deadline is to be met. It is a duel to be fought, and if your Ninja skills are not strong enough, you would be defeated! That said, you should know that a Ninja Web Developer is not just developing web applications, but fighting against time and money, in which a loss is not accepted.
Now how do you become a Ninja Web Developer (a winning one at that)? Simply assimilate the list below. Continue reading the post…
Just before you start up
Found in Channel : Business Talks, Neti-Preneur — Damilare @ 6:58 am 1 Comment »
Another wonderful idea just struck you, perhaps you have done the necessary market research. You are sure this one is the right step to take. Before starting up again, please read the next few paragraphs.
A lot of things need be considered before jumping onto projects, most budding entrepreneurs don’t, and hence they don’t complete them, fail or succeed by fluke. There are numerous factors one needs to consider, amongst them all, I find these very important
Research: Have you done all necessary market research? Never embark on a project because you are merely in love with the idea. The love will be short-lived and the drive to forge ahead will escape, leaving you with a feeling of failure and frustration. Instead, take all ideas into a research bed.
Strive to answer questions like who would benefit from this project? What problems are going to be solved? What are the social or economic values of the end product? Get these answers and perform a reality check on them. If you are satisfied with the results, consider other factors below.
Continue reading the post…
Web Development Tools I can’t do without
Found in Channel : Code Lab, Random Talks, Web Development — Damilare @ 9:46 am 1 Comment »
There are five web development tools I live by everyday and night. They are Firebug, Web Developer Toolbar, ColorZilla, PHP Designer and Adobe Fireworks. Good news is they are all free except the last two (there are open source alternatives).
Oro Ede: Will this save Yoruba Langauge?
Found in Channel : Project Reviews — Damilare @ 9:37 am No Comments »
It is uncommon these days to find websites providing content translation in several languages, what is common however is the absence of most African languages. To me, this means African languages are fast going into extinction. While African languages die as time ticks, some of her native speakers strive to the rescue.
Efiko Identity: We are Efikos not geeks nor are we nerds
Found in Channel : Random Talks — Damilare @ 5:22 pm 4 Comments »
(Me, debugging a bug-ridden web application used for Hotel reservation in Hell Fire)
As a new knowledge-oriented renaissance crops up among Nigerian youths, we need to draw a line between who a nerd, a geek and an Efiko is. Nerds are basically people of rare intelligence above average. Geeks on the other hand, are people deeply rooted and a specific field, notably Computer Science. However one thing geeks and nerds have in common is there social reclusiveness, or as perceived by the ‘normal’ people. Continue reading the post…
Starting a Domain, Hosting and Web Design Company in Nigeria
Found in Channel : Business Talks, Web Development — Damilare @ 4:20 pm 7 Comments »
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