The King and Abrastisio

Comparison of electricity tariffs in other countries

2010-07-28T23:26:00-07:00

The following table shows the price of electricity per Kilowatt Hour across different countries. This should serve as a quick reference to what other guys like us pay in these countries. Country $/KwH N/KwH Kingdom o...

Coldfusion stores Data source definitions here

2010-06-09T11:09:00-07:00

Coldfusion server reinstallation or cloning is a common scenario however if your server is the type with multiple data sources, recreating those DSNs could be hell on earth - especially when you have a world cup match to watch. All you need do ...

Questions for Brian Greene

2010-05-26T12:09:00-07:00

I recently bought the Elegant Universe, a great book by Brian Greene. He tried his very best to distil String Theory and other mad cap science into what an average Joe could understand. I understand (well, I think I do) what he wrote but I have mo...

Digging Deep

2010-04-12T03:15:00-07:00

The world is currently faced with energy challenges: oil reserves are being depleted at an unprecedented rate and depending on which statistic you use, we could run out of gas (literally) within the next 100 years. Renewable sources are not enough or...

Behavioral finance and the science of voodoo

2010-03-27T02:35:00-07:00

I just had some argument with a PhD researcher about the value of behavioral models over the up-till-now traditional financial modeling. You see, behavioral finance is a growing field of financial science and came into prominence after the last catas...

The economy of enforcement

2010-03-20T04:23:00-07:00

Lagos is a mad place. Chaos incorporated. Although that isn't enough to make me do the Andrew Method (run away) . Apart from security and electricity, traffic is the biggest problem we have. It takes X number of hours to move from point A to B. I k...

Will the database move into the cloud?

2010-01-13T06:21:00-07:00

In 1999 when senior vice president Marc Benioff left Oracle to create Salesforce.com, many thought he was headed for a cliff at full steam but 10 years down the line, software as a service (SaaS) is a matured business model. Online productivity ap...

Synch your Outlook Contacts with Facebook

2009-12-29T01:32:00-07:00

Just like every other person, almost all my phone contacts are on Facebook, with constantly changing profiles. However, keeping track of who has changed picture or who has a new number is hell. Obviously, the dudes at Developing Trends shared my p...

Blackberry is hurting Nokia in Nigeria

2009-10-15T08:25:00-07:00

Nokia is definitely the largest maker of any type of phone in the world, from the penny pinching Nokia 1100 to the super sexy N900, the mainframe of smartphones. While market penetration is good with the cheaper phones, the more expensive ... [More]

Adieu Papi, Grand Papi

2009-09-28T14:00:00-07:00

I have always known that one day I would end up fatherless but just never thought about it until it happened today. September 28, 2009 will be a day I will never forget, just like other important dates. My father died. Mustapha Adedapo Olowe wa...

Why can't I swap the OS in my phone for another one?

2009-08-20T00:59:00-07:00

That has been the question running on my mind for so long. I use a HP desktop at work, currently running Windows XP SP2. But I know that, if I want, Linux could be made to run on it with minimal efforts (which involve scouting for drivers). ... [More]

CF9 in Beta

2009-07-15T23:41:00-07:00

Adobe has announced the availability of Coldfusion 9 Beta product. With so many exciting features, I am definitely hooked up to another 2 years of pounding out CF codes (even though it seems the time to stop is just around the horizon). CF9 is als...

Windpower to the rescue

2008-06-28T20:02:00-07:00

Energy crisis has never been worse in Nigeria than now. power stations are comatose, the government is reversing itself in all possible directions and no one knows what is going to happen the next minute. Earlier in the administration of Bola Tinu...

Create a Replica Table based on another Table Schema

2008-06-13T05:46:00-07:00

A quick and dirty way to create a table in MS SQL as a replica of another table without having to move data from first table to the second one. Say you want to create Table B based on Table A schema:SELECT TOP 0 * INTO TABLE B FROM TABLE A

The Nigerian Website Traffc Ranking

2008-05-31T12:54:00-07:00

The most popular Nigeria website is Nairaland as declared by Alexa, the number 1 website ranking site on the internet. it is the 14th most popular destination for Nigerian web surfers. Among the media houses, Punch newspaper website, www.punchng...

Smart Organizations: The Buck Stops with the Executives

2008-05-22T06:16:00-07:00

In continuation of my analysis of smart organizations, I have since discovered the importance of leadership. The leadership defines the direction the organization goes. Great organizations are known to have great leaders. They define the direction... [More]

Brilliance versus Intelligence

2008-05-13T08:19:00-07:00

Brilliance is functional intelligence. And I would rather be intelligent that brilliant.

The bionic generation of the future

2008-04-29T11:39:00-07:00

Someone is already talking about implanting Bluetooth devices! Read more from here http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9929881-1.html?tag=cnetfd.mt

What makes a smart organization

2008-04-22T12:04:00-07:00

Of recent, I have been thinking deeply about what makes an organization to be smart. Or deeper still, what defines a smart organization. I am thinking about real life attributes not some fancy buzz words from smart pants consultants.If someone should...

Let me swap my phone OS!

2008-04-18T09:18:00-07:00

Going back the computer memory lane, I can state categorically that the success that the PC had in changing the world (the PC really changed the world) is mostly due to the flexibility and interchangeability of its different components. That kudos... [More]

Nokia Caller ID Bug

2008-03-09T14:37:00-07:00

This would never happen to a lot of people but if know two guys having almost the same number, your Nokia phone might mix their names up. [More]

December 31 FYE: Implications for the Nigerian banks

2008-01-21T07:14:00-07:00

With the drive of the current administration of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to take the Nigerian financial sector to be at par with international standards, the recent pronouncement for all banks to have the same financial-year-end com... [More]

The Start of a New Era

2008-01-18T17:03:00-07:00

Today is my last day at First City Monument Bank Plc. That marks the end of an exciting 2 years of challenging and rewarding work at one of Nigeria's finest banks. The guys here are simply wonderful to work with. People are nice and they actually gre... [More]

Global Africa: Presence or Profitability?

2008-01-03T03:38:00-07:00

Following the ultimatum that Nigerian banks shore up their capital base if they are to remain in business, several banks have indeed gone over board with each one raising capital in excess of $1billion. Their aim in the long run, having been re... [More]

Friendship or Business: Madness Incorporated

2007-11-19T11:44:00-07:00

Think about this:

If our friendship kills my business, there won't be friendship and I will be dead broke. But if my business kills our friendship, at least there would be some money to console me...

Global Challenges: Students Leaders not Left Out

2007-11-09T05:00:00-07:00

The world is getting increasingly difficult to manage by the world leaders alone. I guess this is the drive of the organizers of the One World One Society conference taking place at the University of East London between 16th and 17th of November 2007...

ColdFusion 8 and KTML

2007-11-09T04:44:00-07:00

A recent upgrade of a CF7 to CF8 sent my blood temperature past the 100C redline when the editor of a content management system went belly up. The bug is a curious one: CF8 now has some new functions (filedelete, filecopy, filewrite, etc) which are i...

February 29: How does it feel to be born that day?

2007-08-14T14:10:00-07:00

I have never met anyone born on this date but it must be horrible especially if you are girl because you would never do the 1st birthday. Same for the 5th, 10th, 15th, 18th and (blah!) 21st. By the time you come around to do a proper one, 40th, you a...

Investor Delight

2007-07-25T06:58:00-07:00

My long time friend, Ponle Holloway, just released a nifty tool to help those of us who have stock accounts scattered all over the place. It's a website where you can register your stock portfolio and track the performance (or under performance if yo...

ColdFusion 8 Rocks!

2007-07-21T04:53:00-07:00

ColdFusion 8 rocks and that is all I have been seeing and reading from the community. It seems am the only one left out (Duh!): I have been freaking busy. So busy that the Beta installer has been sitting on my test server and I have not even clicked ...

Is this the way it will all end?

2007-07-13T08:41:00-07:00

The get rich quick scheme is not native to Nigeria. Can we assume that the punishment for gullibility or greed would not skip the Nigerians that have thrown caution to the wind and want to reap where they haven't sown. I don't know and I don't really...

iPhone can't work in Lagos, duh!

2007-07-13T08:33:00-07:00

Bad news!

The iPhone has been locked to AT&T and won't work on other GSM networks for now. Very annoying move by Apple. Unlocked version won't be available in Europe until fall. What a way to pour water on my enthusiasm.

At last: The iPhone

2007-06-29T13:26:00-07:00

I hate common phones and I don't know why. May be being exclusive gives a little rush (akin to something speed ball throws at you). Having used an E70 for a year and looking for that cool phone that won't be too common, Apple has finally come to t...

Pennywise HYIB: The king of absurdity

2007-05-23T02:27:00-07:00

Just last week, some dudes came to my office to offer the ever enticing money doubling schemes. I don’t think am being fair in calling Pennywise money doubling or S’ogun D’ogoji because man, Pennywise is something else! Th... [More]

Coldfusion Update Function

2007-05-14T09:45:00-07:00

If you ever had gotten stuck with writing insert and update statement for a table with a zillion columns, you can understand my pain. And applications (most of them) must work with data. Select is cool, in fact, the dudes that crafted the SQL stand... [More]

Error Selecting on AD Linked Server Columns

2007-05-11T14:48:00-07:00

Looks like not all columns are born equal on Active Directory linked server on SQL Server. I have a pretty little view which initially was selecting just four columns (mail, samaccountname,company and displayname) from a linked AD on an SQL Ser... [More]

Nospetco accounts frozen

2007-04-27T16:25:00-07:00

Or at least, that is the gist I have been hearing since I got holed up in a company retreat of recent. Actually, the pace of office work has been so frenetic the last few weeks that I don't even have time to look at myself in the mirror. Not only are... [More]

9 Coldfusion 8 features to watch out for

2007-04-26T02:35:00-07:00

Coldfusion 8 would soon be out of the door with a big bang. Top on my list are built in AJAX widgets, .NET (and Java!) integration, Microsoft Exchange integration and native image manipulation functions. For more of the other exciting jokers up Adobe...

Do you ever wonder . . .

2007-04-19T06:15:00-07:00

Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin? Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed? Why you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"? Why "abbreviated" is such a long word? Why doctors call what th... [More]

Marriage According to Nairaland

2007-04-19T02:48:00-07:00

I was chatting with one of the few friends I made on Nairaland (before I left) yesterday and she told me she was getting married. Well, getting married is one of those things that have happened to all my friends. But this is different. She told she's... [More]

ColdFire: Another Ray Effort

2007-03-10T08:48:00-07:00

Ray Camden just announced a FireBug extension for debugging CF applications, ColdFire. You can read more here. It should make life easy for everyone except me. Why? Because somehow, I never use Firefox (which is my one and only browser) to work with ...

A workaround for the 1000 row limitation on Active Directory Interface

2007-02-19T08:25:00-07:00

While working on a simple system that would allow using Microsoft Word to mail merge documents to users on the network, I bumped into the proverbial 1000 row limitation imposed by the Active Directory interface. [More]

ColdFusion bouncing outside bound emails

2007-02-08T03:01:00-07:00

Recently, I added some features to a framework so that it could send emails (piece of cake on ColdFusion). Well, I got my own emails while testing but a while later, something made me check the undelivered folder for ColdFusion mail engine only to... [More]

The agony of dude with a beer gut

2007-01-24T04:14:00-07:00

it ain't everyday you get to be called a dude and when you manage to be called one, you want to hold on fast like a leech to that even if the desperate talons of old age is fast clutching at your throat. [More]

Firefox 3 Features

2007-01-24T04:06:00-07:00

Firefox 2 is hardly sitting tight before the pretty boys at Mozilla started building the third iteration of the best browser in the world (sulk if you like!). You can read about some of the interesting features here.

Adobe RIA Conference in Nigeria

2007-01-17T01:55:00-07:00

At last, the RIA beam has been focused on Nigeria. The Nigerian Adobe User Group would be doing an RIA conference to discuss and showcase what we Nigerian's got to offer. ColdFusion and Flex are going to get serious scrutiny. I also heard that some ...

Dara is one year old!

2007-01-05T11:10:00-07:00

It was just like yesterday that Dara (my daughter) literarily popped out into this mad mad world; and she's been a bundle of joy ever since. And today marks her first year on planet earth. It's been fun all the way. I remember when I was so impatien... [More]

The shorter the better

2006-12-28T00:43:00-07:00

Can you imagine? I haven't written a single technical article in months. The folks at CFDJ (I promised them heaven and earth) must be thinking of spilling my blood by now. And to make matters worse, am adding a short story section to my blog. What wi...

The Greatest Disappointment

2006-12-18T01:59:00-07:00

A Yoruba adage made popular by the legendary singer, King Sunny Ade, says "Akinkaju t'o mo'ja ti'o mo'sa iru won ma'n b'ogun ibo mi lo ni". Meaning a good warrior knows when to advance and when to retreat. And a better warrior even knows wh... [More]

NOSPETCO: A Classic Ponzi Scheme

2006-12-15T12:19:00-07:00

I have always wanted to write about a classic Ponzi scheme that is making raves in Nigeria of recent but never got around to it until this afternoon when I read about what a like minded person wrote about it. This is the short take: There i... [More]

Yet another dawg out of the street

2006-12-12T08:49:00-07:00

Long time friend, Japin Honeysett, finally summoned courage by taking his long time girlfriend, Sewe (some Tivish name, don't ask me what it means) to the alter. Japin is really brave because he crossed many oceans (Pacific, Indian and Atlantic ocean... [More]

What else can I ask for?

2006-12-07T00:41:00-07:00

Sincerely, what else can one ask for except for a good wife? Unless you are related to the Dalai Lama, you have got to get married one of these days. For me, I have always seen marriage as an inevitable life sentence in which a jail break is not favo...

What manner of legacy

2006-11-14T04:33:00-07:00

When Obasanjo was sworn-in in May 1999 he promised to uphold the constitution. Of course, those of us who have been in this country since the last 7 years know he has done everything apart from standing strong for the laws he promised to defend. [More]

Make your vote count

2006-11-06T01:06:00-07:00

The voters' registration exercise has been on for a while now. Even though the project has been fraught with a lot of Nigerian factor, there have been strong clamors from different angles for all of us to register. At least, if we don't vote, we can'...

One more crash too many...

2006-10-29T04:59:00-07:00

We were all rudely jolted by news of another ADC airplane crash in Nigeria today. Damn, how many times will these metal birds fall of the sky before someone starts to do something? It is pretty unfortunate how human lives are just wantonly wasted ... [More]

The Nigerian Constitution [1999]

2006-10-16T00:00:00-07:00

For those who are interested in the Nigerian Constitution of 1999, you can download it from this link.

The parable of the only child

2006-10-12T07:15:00-07:00

President Obasanjo from Nigeria meets with the Queen of England. He asks her, "Your Majesty, how do you run such an efficient government? Are there any tips you can give to me?" "Well," says the Queen, "the most important thi... [More]

Stella Felix in Space? People can be dumb ass!

2006-10-12T04:18:00-07:00

News have been going around that Nigeria, at last, has hurtled someone into space. In this case, a nubile 17 year old girl called Stella Felix. When I first heard it, I didn't believe it and everyone called me a damned cynic. Duh! [More]

The time has come for a Macbook Pro

2006-10-11T14:14:00-07:00

Having endured years of stupidly designed and pretty ugly laptops, I finally decided to opt for a Mac Pro. I am thinking of something black, shining and sexy. Just like an African Queen. Presently I use a HP NC6120 with 1Gig of memory but it is so ug... [More]

Google Documents

2006-10-11T13:34:00-07:00

At last, Google has launched a beta program showcasing its Writely (online document editor) acquisition and an online spreadsheet. But the missing gap is linking this with Gmail. Writing well formatted emails on Gmail is not for the faint hearted as ...

Bill Gates in Nigeria

2006-10-09T03:48:00-07:00

Bill Gates came to Nigeria over the weekend to discuss with "Baba Iyabo" on how to eradicate HIV/AIDS and poverty. For me, what I would love most is if Bill could institute a free tuition technological college in Nigeria. Education, though ...

Beanz Chopaz drops a baby gurl

2006-09-25T04:42:00-07:00

News from the grapevine just reported that the Chief Genter of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Mr. Ademola Ogunmiloro, just dropped a bouncing baby girl. Consequently, the CGF has declared 7 days of unlimited washing in celebrating the good news. Th...

Nokia E70 at last

2006-09-22T07:33:00-07:00

I have been patiently waiting for this phone since it was announced in October 2005. I was using 6820 previously but when the dude decided to take an early trip to the graves, I opted to wait for the E70. I ran through a motley of some temporary phon...

dupeolorunjo.com goes live

2006-09-11T08:19:00-07:00

Christian author and banker, Dupe Olorunjo, has launched a new book and a brand new website to showcase her spiritointellectual efforts. The website, along with a brand new book, The Aireginan Dream, were launched yesterday, September 10th, 2006 at t... [More]

Another dawg out of the street!

2006-09-11T02:56:00-07:00

My long time pal, Olaleye Oginni, getting married at last. You can't know how relieved I am getting this dawg from roaming the street. And in making sure he doesn't change his mind along the way, I would be right there to the very end. Then I can ...

Election 2007: Lessons to learn from others

2006-09-04T03:49:00-07:00

Super geek Pierce Omidyar ain't only about the web. In his article back in 2004, he outlined why candidates running for elective posts should make sure their votes are well counted. The same can't be truer for the elections coming up in 2007. Candida... [More]

JustNaija is down again

2006-08-31T03:53:00-07:00

Wannabe gossip and chat website, justnaija.com is down again for the umpteenth time. The issue this time around is that even though the home page works, you can't view threads. [More]

Excel 2007 Quirk

2006-08-25T10:30:00-07:00

Just got a book on Excel 2003 VBA and I thought of doing some reading and experiments. Along the line, I discovered that I couldn't name a sub or function SayHello. Also, I couldn't record a macro called SayHello. I wonder why because SayHello doe...

CF8 Wish List

2006-07-24T05:28:00-07:00

The ColdFusion 8th iteration is now hot on the cooker and everyone is wishing for this or that. For me, the following should be sorted out or included: Better CFDOCUMENT For the kind of work I do and for enterprise reporting, CFDOCUMENT is just... [More]

Adeola Oladeji dropped a gurl!

2006-07-12T12:08:00-07:00

One of my friends (Ade who got married last year, remember him?) just dropped a gurl this morning. Can you imagine that despite all the bragging, he could only do a gurl. I guess if he has 2 more daughters, the three of them then would be equivalent ...

Rich Folks? Don't visit them no more...

2006-06-27T06:43:00-07:00

Someone sent this to me and it's pretty funny. ************************************************** Below was an encounter with a rich friend during a visit to his house sometime Question: "What would you like to have ...Fruit juice, Soda, Te...

Television is dangerous for your kids

2006-06-27T06:07:00-07:00

A study (recent???) has shown that TV could really be dangerous to the well-being of our young ones. As a new father, I have been consuming so much materials on how to raise good children. This is important when you consider that when you are old and...

Evolution of a Programmer

2006-06-27T05:53:00-07:00

A very funny depiction of how programmers evolve over time...

Interesting Facts about Germany 2006 World Cup

2006-06-20T02:33:00-07:00

Pool Feed for Broadcasters 1 Number of Directors 6 PanAmSats used to send HD signal worldwide 9 Cities hosting matches 12 Panels on current FIFA football 14 Distinct feeds produced by HBS per match 16 Outside Broadca...

Riya Photo Search

2006-06-16T11:18:00-07:00

A self proclaimed photo search on the Internet, Riya, just opened shop. But I guess the result is not worth the candle. This link shows what you get when you search for R Kelly (am a Kelly fan).

Teen-only ringtone

2006-06-16T11:12:00-07:00

NYTimes just reported on a new type of ring tones that is inaudible to adults. "While most human communication takes place in a frequency range between 200 and 8,000 hertz (a hertz being the scientific unit of frequency equal to one cycle per sec...

cfdocument is breaking my heart

2006-06-06T07:27:00-07:00

I have been facing a challenge of using cfdocument to create very nasty and mean looking reports. After boasting about all CF can do, I guess getting reports out on PDF should be as simple as abc. Alas, I think I boasted one more time too many. The c...

Welcome to the World, Baby Kaka

2006-06-06T02:29:00-07:00

One of my friends just dropped a bouncing baby boy too. He's Oluwasubomi Oluwaseyi, Ayotomiwa, Oluwakayode, Iseoluwa, Oluwatosin, Oladimeji, David, Emmanuel Kaka.I use to think my baby has the longest name but am sure this one beats her hands down......

Adieu! GoLive and Freehand

2006-06-01T02:33:00-07:00

The recent marriage of Adobe and Macromedia has produced its first set of casualties. Adobe has announced that it would be discontinuing GoLive and Freehand. This link is in French. Don't bother asking me if I can read Farancé. GoLive will step aside...

Open Source ColdFusion?

2006-06-01T02:29:00-07:00

Vince Bonfatti is asking questions if Blue Dragon should be open sourced. I guess some dudes have been laying it on him.
I don't think so. Must everything be open sourced?

Baby Olamide is Born

2006-05-27T08:32:00-07:00

My friends (Lekan 'Sully' Sule and his wife, Madam Sule) just dropped a bouncing baby boy. He's named Olamide Olalekan-Sule. Many congrats to the family. Meanwhile, Madam Sule has been clamoring for Olamide to marry my baby girl. I am sad to say, ho... [More]

Single Row Bug on Linked DB2

2006-05-22T15:06:00-07:00

I don't know how I could describe the frustration I have passed through when a linked DB2 server on MS SQL started returning 1 single row using the openquery syntax.After trolling on the net for days, I finally found a solution at http://sastools.com...

The New Adobe Website

2006-05-02T01:49:00-07:00

At last, macromedia.com was finally collapsed into Adobe. There is now a brand new website. Or what people think is a brand new website. Because IMHO, the site was just a jazzed up macromedia.com.I hope Adobe will take care of us like Macromedia used...

Security Web Applications

2006-04-27T02:23:00-07:00

There is a great article on web security at ColdFusion Muse. This is part of a series of security articles you have got to read. I think it is best to secure out applications now before it gets too late. You never know when the hackers would strike. ...

Configuring DB2 (Legacy) as Linked Server on MS SQL

2006-04-20T12:15:00-07:00

Like I have discussed before, I have been banging my head against the table (I mean it!) on a project I am working on presently. This project involves writing fancy reports against very nasty databases. One, they are as old as my late grandfather (th... [More]

Bug or Quirk: Error on CF Query of Queries

2006-04-13T06:09:00-07:00

CF threw an error when I ran a query of queries (QoQ) on a recordset which has zone in it and I was using the column on a group by select (to gimmie summaries on a dashboard, you get it?). Is this a bug or quirk?"Query Of Queries syntax error.Encount...

Oracle NVL equivalent on MS SQL

2006-04-12T15:08:00-07:00

I have been an Oracle DB person for quite a while until my new job where we are running DB2 and MS SQL for the moment. Now, in Oracle, the NVL() function is a quick shortcut for series of nasty CASE THEN ELSE statements. Since the data am dealing wit... [More]

Honda Accords and their Nigerian pet names

2006-04-05T12:46:00-07:00

While shopping for a new car recently, I was seriously considering a Honda Accord. What struck me however was the funny names Nigerians have given the different generations of Honda Accords. [More]

Web 2.0/Ajax will not save the world

2006-04-04T01:58:00-07:00

Over the last one year since Jesse James Garette unleashed the Ajax dragon (he didn't create it, he only gave it a fancy name) everyone has jumped on the bandwagon of how Web 2.0 (whatever that means) and Ajax will save the world. How they will chase... [More]

If You Have Three Shirts...

2006-04-02T17:18:00-07:00

I guess there is somewhere in the bible where Jesus talked about the fact that if you have two shirts, give one to someone who doesnt have. I dont know why am writing this. But one thing I know is that I am mightily sad in my heart. Not because I d... [More]

1 Terabyte Flash Disk?

2006-03-16T06:41:00-07:00

Texas Memory Systems just released a monster-sized flash memory called Tera-RamSan. Isn't that awesome? Check it out at http://www.superssd.com/products/tera-ramsan/

Never fly on budget

2006-03-12T00:44:00-07:00

Is this the new age wisdom? Well I didnt know until I found out the hard way. I had a precious one week in between two jobs and I felt like making the best out of it. The best in this situation was running away from everything. You know, the calls, ... [More]

Today is my last day at Access Bank

2006-02-28T00:00:00-07:00

Today marks my last day as an Access Bank employee. It's been quite a trip. [More]

Firefox Bug? Windows Quirk?

2006-02-24T02:40:00-07:00

Anytime my Firefox 1.5.01 shows a pop up that I should participate in a survey, and I click Cancel, my XP SP2 says Firefox has crashed and it closes.

Web 2.1

2006-02-20T15:03:00-07:00

A crazy article about the new web. Time has come again for the old dudes to start looking for startup funds.
Read it here: http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=3594

Meebo keeps all IM in one place

2006-02-17T14:32:00-07:00

Meebo is an AJAX on steroid web application that allows you to login to Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Jabber, GTalk and ICQ all at the same time without installing any desktop app. The startup is run by a dude and 2 babes (chikitos!).Check them out at www24.meebo...

JComponents Downloads

2006-02-17T06:47:00-07:00

Joe Rinehart of Clearsoftware has discountinued the download and support of the popular JComponents widgets. However, since I still have a recent download, I am making it available here for download. Please note that the components are free but not o...

Obituary: Papa Has Gone Home

2006-02-11T07:58:00-07:00

How things change so fast. Last month, 25th of January, I wrote about the Nairaland Phenomenon. It is so sad that few days later, the head nigger in-charge there developed a nasty and acute case of Megalomania. I have since dropped all association... [More]

The Nairaland Phenomenon

2006-01-25T13:34:00-07:00

It is unbelievable that this mega Nigerian online community has operated below most peoples radar for so long. But for the more than twelve thousand Nairaland members, it is a towering monolith that keeps growing everyday. Nairaland, a... [More]

BBC Versus CNN

2006-01-23T03:43:00-07:00

Do you know that more people go to the BBC website than the CNN website? Interesting find out more at http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=lang&lang=en

This Guy is Insane

2006-01-18T10:50:00-07:00

Someone toiled nights and day to write a lovely piece of blogging software (powering this website) and gave it out for free. Then another person woke up one day, stole the code and started reselling it as his own. What do you call such a person? A ma...

Naming Baby Olowe

2006-01-12T16:00:00-07:00

Today will mark the begining of a new life as my new baby girl gets a name. She was named Adeolu Oluwadarasimi Oluwabusolami Oreoluwa Oluwapelumi Oluwanifesimi Oluwato'oni Naomi Deji-Olowe. Pretty long name but you can be sure some will drop along th... [More]

The Gbenga Obasanjo Interview

2006-01-10T05:23:00-07:00

nThat Gbenga Obasanjo has stirred up the hornet's nest is no news but have you read the rest of the interviews? Just plain juicy. Read it all at The Nigerian Village.

I 'v a new baby girl

2006-01-05T02:02:00-07:00

Precisely at 1:55AM today, I got my brand new baby girl. She looked so cool (but ~~black~~ her aunt Duronke doesn't want that. She's black and beautiful). For now, we call her baby BT. Check the photos section to see some preview.

Happy New Year!

2006-01-01T00:00:00-07:00

Happy new year to everyone out there. May the good Lord make 2006 a year of blessings and prosperity. Amen

But you got to play your part: BE GOOD TO EVERYONE!

The Evils of Flash Forms

2005-12-28T00:53:00-07:00

When Flash forms were first released by on CFMX7 everyone hooed and haaed it as the best thing that ever happened to UI development since Berners-Lee invented HTML.Like others, I quickly ported some applications to Flash forms and I was grinning from... [More]

What manner of Government...

2005-12-21T01:08:00-07:00

I don't know if we have been cursed with the fire brigade spirit. I don't know why it takes disasters to make our government to move. And even when they move, it is so so clumsy. [More]

Too Old to Squat

2005-12-12T01:00:00-07:00

There was a man who really took care of his body. One day he took a look in the mirror and noticed that he was tan all over except for his penis. So he decided to do something about it. [More]

Why?

2005-12-05T01:03:00-07:00

Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting weak?

Why do banks charge a fee on "insufficient funds" when they know there is not enough? [More]

Times have changed

2005-12-04T01:11:00-07:00

25 years ago...... [More]

A Visit to Mental Asylum

2005-12-01T01:07:00-07:00

During a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the Director, "What is the critera that defines a patient to be institutionalized?" "Well..." said the Director, "we fill up a bathtub, and offer a teaspoon, a teacup, and a bucket to... [More]

The Pope's last request

2005-11-30T09:29:00-07:00

As Pope John Paul II was dying; he sent for Tafa Balogun and Dipereye to come to the Vatican. [More]

Active Directory on Coldfusion Journal

2005-11-29T14:53:00-07:00

My article on Active Directory integration has been published by the Coldfusion Developer Journal. You can read it here.

Applause

2005-11-25T02:12:00-07:00

The soldiers are tired and lonely after spending weeks in enemy territory. To entertain them the Major called for this HOT number from the nearby town. She came, danced and when the first dance was done, the soldiers went mad.... [More]

Happy Thanksgiving

2005-11-25T02:05:00-07:00

Divorcing After 45 Years An old man in Phoenix calls his son in New York and says, "I hate to ruin your day, But I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing; forty-five years of misery is enough." "Pop, what are you talking ab... [More]

It's dog's life after all.........

2005-11-19T02:15:00-07:00

A butcher watching over his shop is really surprised when he sees a dog coming inside the shop. He shoos him away. But later, the dog is back again. So, he goes over to the dog and notices it has a note in its mouth. He takes the note and i... [More]

Dynamic Component Path

2005-11-16T08:49:00-07:00

I moved a CMS application from one server to the other (which was almost a good replica of the production server) and CF couldn't find my components again. Since I don't have a ready access to the webroot to store my components I had to look for a w... [More]

Sony is not OK at all

2005-11-15T00:56:00-07:00

Seems everyone knows what Sony has been up to. The company is not better than those evil hackers that write terrible vira except that it is big and very mean. From now on, I wouldn't be found dead within a mile of a Sony; it has gone too far, it h...

What .Com can do to your brain!

2005-11-14T02:08:00-07:00

An ambitious yuppie finally decided to take a vacation. He booked himself on a Caribbean cruise and proceeded to have the time of his life... until the boat sank! The man found himself swept up on the shore of an island with no other people,... [More]

ColdFusion White Space Reduction

2005-11-01T14:50:00-07:00

I just finished our new website (my place of work). Now, I live in Nigeria and most of our customers are resident in Nigeria too. However, because of our local Internet infrastructural constraints, most visitors would have narrowband connections... [More]

The Heart of Men

2005-10-27T01:56:00-07:00

Someone came around to pick some mails in my office. While signing for the mails, I saw that he's a Joseph. I jokingly asked him if his wife was Mary and his son Jesus? You can guess his reply? [More]

Obasanjo has a nerd son

2005-10-26T07:50:00-07:00

Seems someone appreciates technology in the Obasanjo's clan. Dare Obasanjo, who works at Microsoft, runs a website and blog.

Wedding Prisoner

2005-10-12T04:55:00-07:00

On their wedding night, the bride told her husband: "Honey, am a virgin and I don't know anything about sex, Can you explain it to me first so I don't embarrass you?" OK, sweetheart. Putting it simply we will call your part "the priso... [More]

A fool for life

2005-10-12T04:53:00-07:00

A guy gets home early from work and hears strange noises coming from the bedroom.

He rushes upstairs to find his wife naked on the bed, sweating and panting. [More]

Dunlop Rubber would have prevented this accident...

2005-10-07T06:57:00-07:00

A young woman who was several months pregnant boarded a bus.Then she noticed a young man smiling at her, presuming he was laughing at her on account of her condition. She changed her seatbut he only seemed more amused. [More]

Yoruba Dictionary

2005-10-05T13:56:00-07:00

For the Yoruba dudes who don't know their left from their right, hit www.yorubadictionary.com to find out what that silly word ;-) means. This work is being sponsored by Dr Adebusola Onayemi of learnyoruba.com.

What men 'v got to say about them women...

2005-10-04T03:20:00-07:00

This is what some of the great men have thought about marriage and Women..... Some when trying to be humorous...... What a shame. I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats... [More]

I own the pepsi

2005-10-04T03:19:00-07:00

A Jamiacan Rasta man and his wife are in court getting a divorce. The problem was who should get custody of the child. The wife jumped up and said, "Your Honor. I brought the child into this world with pain and labor. She should be in my custody."...

Dopey and the Penguin

2005-10-02T23:52:00-07:00

The seven dwarfs go to the Vatican, and because they are THE seven dwarfs, they are ushered in to see the Pope. Dopey leads the pack. "Dopey, my son," says the Pope, "what can I do for you?" Dopey asks, "Excuse me y... [More]

Nasty Sex

2005-10-01T06:16:00-07:00

Everybody who has a dog calls him "Rover" or "Spot" I made the mistake of calling mine "Sex". Now Sex has been very embarrassing to me. When I went to city hall to renew his dog license, I told the clerk I would like a license for... [More]

Revisited: Is this a CFMAIL bug?

2005-09-30T03:24:00-07:00

Now am back this morning. Even though I could not breathe freely, I was still curious to know what could have gone wrong. Who am I to say a solid program like CF7 has a bug (a roach or something more creepy)? [More]

Is this a CFMAIL bug?

2005-09-29T16:42:00-07:00

I just finished deploying a newsletter software showcasing some fancy CFFORM do da functions to the Library department. However, along the line, someone (up there) felt the user profile of the of the sender ID for the newsletter should be changed.... [More]

Not the best time to take a jump

2005-09-29T15:08:00-07:00

Dear Husband: I'm writing you this letter to tell you that I'm leaving you for good. I've been a good woman to you for seven years and I have nothing to show for it. These last two weeks have been hell. Your boss called to tell me that you had quit ... [More]

Should non-dev organizations develop applications?

2005-09-27T13:21:00-07:00

For those of us who work in the IT department of organizations, and who have some programming skills, we face a recurrent issue of build versus buy. Sometimes, a dude in finance wants some fancy Excel macro, for a report NOW! Where I work, everything... [More]

Guns ét al

2005-09-23T03:01:00-07:00

An old Italian Mafia Don is dying, and he called his grandson to his bed. "Grandson, I wan you to lissin to me. I wan you to take my chrome plated 38 revolver so you will always remember me." "But grandpa, I really don't like guns, ... how abo... [More]

My CF8 wish list

2005-09-20T15:32:00-07:00

The CF8 flour is in the mix and on its way to the oven. Now that we've been asked to dream big, so I will be stating my own wish list here. [More]

Email and Success

2005-09-19T03:31:00-07:00

A jobless man applied for the position of "office boy "at Microsoft. The HR manager interviewed him then watched him cleaning the floor as a test. "You are employed "he said. "Give me your e-mail address and I'll ... [More]

New Lingo for an Old Priest

2005-09-19T03:21:00-07:00

There was an old priest who got sick of all the people in his parish who kept confessing to adultery. One Sunday, in the pulpit, he said, "If I hear one more person confess to adultery, I'll quit!"Everyone liked him, so they came up wit... [More]

Laughter is the best medicine

2005-09-19T03:18:00-07:00

Work could be very killing. And for some of us, work is murder, murdering the very fun out of our lives. But ain't gonna sit on my butt and let this work zapp the fun out of me. [More]

Naija Airways!!!!!

2005-09-16T05:56:00-07:00

Good morning, Ladies and Gentlemen. This is your captain (Boniface) welcoming you on board of Nigeria Airways. We apologize for the four-day delay in taking off, it was due to bad weather and some overtime I had to put in at the bakery. This is fligh... [More]

Dreamweaver 8 Rocks

2005-09-13T07:18:00-07:00

Or may be the code view. At last, Macromedia has given us what Homesite use to have then; proper code management. Now, you could collapse portions of code, highlight tag parents recursively, highlight invalid syntax, etc.

Condom in the rain

2005-09-13T06:13:00-07:00

A woman was having a daytime affair while her husband was at work. One wet and rainy day she was in bed with her boyfriend when to her horror, she heard her husband's car pull into the driveway. She looked out the window and yelled ... [More]

Studio 8 is finally out

2005-09-13T04:54:00-07:00

After waiting for what seems like a century, Macromedia finally pushed Studio 8 out of the garage door. Visit Macromedia to download a trial, hope it would be worth the $399 upgrade.

Flash forms and how not to upgrade CFMX7

2005-08-30T10:51:00-07:00

When the honchos at work decided to put some business processes on the intranet, I felt it was the best time to start putting flash forms to it's paces. Process automation could be fiendishly difficult with so much validations. I hardly use javasc... [More]

Leveraging on the Active Directory Infrastructure: Base/Foundation Services

2005-08-25T07:34:00-07:00

Since we have decided to use the AD as the user management foundation for the different web applications running on the network, it's now so easy to write applications without worry. But won't it be nice for users to login on one application and r... [More]

I guess am back...

2005-08-22T03:34:00-07:00

Had to take a quick vacation to rest some parts of my aching body. It was really fun running away from work and getting paid for doing so.

Dreamweaver 8 is out

2005-08-08T05:14:00-07:00

Macromedia just released Studio 8, which includes the much loved/hated Dreamweaver. For me, the coolest additions are the XML and the zoom tools. Go to Macromedia to read more.

How Mozzies Affect Projects

2005-08-04T03:49:00-07:00

If you think only tech issues, budget, (nasty) bosses, etc can derail a beautiful projects, think otherwise. A nastier determinant is the Mozzy. [More]

Leveraging on the Active Directory Infrastructure

2005-07-27T12:23:00-07:00

When CF developers talk of not reinventing the wheel, we tend to quickly think of CFLIB.org, fancy web services, borrowed CFCs, commercial components like SoEditor, KTML, etc
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A new day to start a blog

2005-07-19T14:11:00-07:00

Today should mark the start of my life in Blogosphere. Special thanks to Ray Camden not only for providing BlogCFC but also for helping out in setting it up.