I like that she is honest about what she wants. Women are hypergamous. This is ok but unchecked hypergamy is the problem. If she is loyal, respectful and submissive to her man, loves children and wants to bear the man's children, is willing to cook and keep a house clean to make a "home" out of a "house" for the family, enjoys having sex with her man, supports the man's endeavors where she can, minimal drama, non-feminist ... then she would be a good find to most men. Our modern culture seems to have diminished the value of bearing new life. It is better that the wife be with the children than having nannies raise your children. The man should provide.

I doubt this would get a response quickly. Make I try my luck.

I've been looking into Haskell for a number of years now though on and off.

I love the language and have written a few programs in it. Nothing big. In my Haskell study, I got stuck around Monad Transformers. It seems without this you can't use Haskell effectively.

I would love to talk to anyone in Nigeria who has been able to surpass this and use Haskell productively. Having to tame the use of the mtl or the transformers libraries and to write your own Monad transformers have been a challenge.

My Nairaland profile has my twitter profile link. I would love a direct message cos I don't check Nairaland as I used to when I was younger.

Many thanks.

That's no problem. I'm currently not at the place now cos of the holidays. If the person isn't in a hurry, from the 6th of January the pictures will be posted here.

I'm relocating so I need to let my place go at Eputu, Ajah. I have a year left counting from August 2015. It has a big parlour with dining room, kitchen and bathroom, all tiles. Borehole with constant water and it's not far from the road.

I'm giving it away at N250k for the 1 yr left on the place. No agent and agreement fee. Pay and pack in.

Call 07037122181 or 09093674043.

Thanks for the link. There are a lot of great books there. It may take me some time to find what I'm looking for.

I agree.

Hi. Thanks for your reply. I have done a Google search, I did so before posting this question. Google kept giving me links to 'tutorial' web pages and an ebook on Apache. I don't know the exact name of the ebook to search for.

Hi, guys. I need the links to download an ebook on how webservers work. I know webservers simply receive requests for webpages, scripts, images etc and send back the required resource but I think a better understanding may be needed when dealing with things like scalability, Caching or whatever stuff I should know but don't know right now. Thanks.

Hi. How can I help?

I guess I'll give GWT a look see. Thanks y'all.

I guess applets are a dead technology. It's too bad that I don't know enough stuff to replace what I can do with applets.

I used applets cos that was the tech I knew. Maybe I'll give GWT a try but right now I don't have the time. My Javascript knowledge isn't spectacular, jQuery knowledge just there.

Sorry, men. I didn't know any other way to implement the idea. I should have specified that Java applets are involved earlier. If you use a modern browser like Google Chrome on a computer I'm sure the applet should load. Cheers.

story-tree.appspot.com . Tell me what you think. If you think it can be done better let's figure out how.

I guess you mean learning to write a business proposal isn't that hard to learn. Thanks guys. In case you remember me, I'm sorry logica for what I said to you back then. I don't normally talk like that.

Thanks. I'm currently doing my NYSC service in Ekiti. Should I 'contact' one of the service providers through a written business proposal(I don't know exactly how to write those), by email or hardcopy or should I go to their head office in Lagos? If there is a better third or fourth option let me know. Thanks.

Thanks for the reply. I really appreciate it. So, what's the next step I should take?

The title says it all. If a user gives their phone number in a webApp how can the webApp subtract credit from the user's hone as payment for services rendered? I really need this for something I'm presently working on. Please reply as soon as you can. Thanks y'all.

http://efeplaytesting.appspot.com , I used the play framework to write the program and used the Google app Engine to host it and you know what, it is totally free if the traffic is reasonable , peeps like me who are learning web-app programming can get to see their site online.

@Fayimora my mtn internet connection hasn't been working for the past three days, so I couldn't reply soon enough. I have a new problem with my Android program now, but here's the story so far:

I've created a J2SE application that can be used to create what I call story-tree files, they have a .str file extension(which is just a glorified xml file). Story-tree consist of nodes that can have text saved in them. I want the text in the .str file to be readable by an android program. The J2SE program uses a JTextPane for inputting text, while the android program uses a TextView for displaying text. The problem I had that started this thread has been more or less solved, but here's the thing:

I've noticed that when using the J2SE program to finally save your work(the text in the story nodes are saved as Nodes in xml) things like 'new lines' are represented(in the created .str file) as 
 . Any time I set the text of a TextView, with a sample text, in an xml Node, like the one below:


Whatever you like
I am the green lantern

nothing is displayed in the TextView.

For a sample text in an xml Node, like the one shown below:

WhateverWhateverWhatever

MoreWhateverWhateverWhatever

only 'WhateverWhateverWhatever' is displayed in the TextView.

I think the presence of the '
' characters causes it, cos when I remove them from the file the main text can be displayed(but the intended formating is lost). Please help figure this out. Thanks.

@logica It is ON , I'm new at this online beefing thing, so don't laugh , You are very condescending, you know that? You tell me I have a "bigger" problem in grasping simple concepts , how do you want me to feel about that when in my heart of hearts I know this to be true and you've just let me know how dumb I really am? If I commit suicide because of this it'll be on your head , and my mom will have your head , for realziz.

Then, you later tell me goodluck , like you mean 'Goodluck, I hope you fix your head, so that you can grasp simple things.'' You are a very hurtful person. I hate you. I hate you very much. I hope you continue to help me in my other problems, though. Thanks. I don't have a religion, so I won't say 'God punish.' Don't know if that line ever work for anyone.

You've been coding for a few years, and completed a few projects, so you think I'm a novice(which I am). So you are the master, right, someone who has "grown" as a programmer? I'm learning I agree, but don't discourage me. See, oga, you are not as great a programmer as you think you are. Have you written a programming book? Have you become a millionaire from your coding efforts? Have you won an international coding challenge? We, humans tend to have a bloated image of ourselves, so don't get it twisted.

BEEF OFF:
Words seem, TO ME(I'm being agnostic here), quite powerful. You don't use yours well, from my subjective point of view. What you may be explaining may be simple for you, but it isn't simple for everyone. If Einstein has thought us anything, it is the relativity of things we are beyond doubt convinced are absolute. I didn't understand this when I used to teach my brother math in secondary school. I understand it now 5 years later. Not everybody is moving at the same high intellectual speed as you 'logica'. On a final note, put more effort in making your ideas clear and as simple as you can, but not simpler(cos it would be impossible for you, since you can't make something SIMPLER THAN YOU COULD).

Developing for android requires a good knowledge of Java before proceeding, so learning Java is still best.

For a beginner I suggest going the Java way. If you don't understand Java Standard Edition, learn that first. You can then decide to choose one of the options above.

And I have told you that there isn't a problem anymore, and that is left for you too to figure. Oga no vex for ma head.

Even though, I'm writing both programs on the same computer, they are both written with different IDEs/text-editors, so your dependency whatever-stuff is not applicable. Thanks for the advice anyway. You may think you are right, but how many times have you written code that made the complier complain? I imagine millions. So, you could still be wrong about your diagnosis of my now non-existent problem. Yes, I'm right about this, yes , Thanks again everyone.

I think 'Number One' may be closer to the truth because the code for the 'StoryNode' class in the android project is EXACTLY the same as that in the J2SE program, but the problem still pops up. What I need done is very simple. I know I'm a novice, but I think it is best to find the easiest and shortest way to solve a problem. I think that's one of the things that differentiates an expert from a novice. Fine, the expert can do more complex stuff than a novice, but if they were to attempt the same thing, the expert would get it done in the easiest, shortest and most elegant way possible.

Anyway, using xml got the job done, though I had to change my algorithm for re-constructing my data in the android program. Thanks again guys.

Hi guys.

Adding a serialVersiouUID in both StoryNode classes didn't work , still the same ClassNotFoundException runtime exception thrown. I'm glad it was suggested, though, because I learnt something new when i did a little bit of research on it in google. All the JavaSE books,(maybe five or more) I have, don't even whisper anything about serialVersionUID, and it turned out to be quite an important thing to know when serializing objects.

I use eclipse for the android part of the project and use TextPad for the J2SE part.
logica writes like a very smart somebody, but what he wrote seems far too intricate for me to get.

I've opted for representing my collection of StoryNode objects as xml. This way no effing ClassNotFoundException will occur. A friend adviced that I do this about a month back, but I felt serializing was just too painless for me to let go.

I came up with an algorithm to get my collection of data objects back in the android reader program, but found out the algorithm was not perfect. I then figured that a better way would be to replay the entire process of addition and deletion of StoryNodes in using the J2SE program, when reading back the data in the android program. Its just crazy enough to work.

Will post more questions when I have troubles. Thanks guys.

I didn't even know that what I was doing was following the 'Producer-Consumer' pattern. I guess I can't run away from Design Patterns any longer. The only one I remember a bit of is the 'Singleton'

Thanks friends for your spirited contributions. I really really appreciate it. I'll put some of your advice to work. My problem came from what I wanted to do for this african mobile apps competition , it ends this month , maybe its something you guys may be interested in. Here's the link: http://www.africanmobileapps.com/

If I have more trouble I'll say so. Thanks again.

http://www.4shared.com/file/8eVrrmR8/Whisper.html

I wrote the program around April I guess. Download the file and send it to two phones , run the application. The application uses bluetooth for two chatting. Bluetooth has a range of about 10metres, so the app is useful in a boring class if you don't want to waste your credit on sms. See if it does what you want. If so, you can request for the source code, to assist your learning, and I would gladly post it here.