It is either these Yahoo-Yahoo boys are testing my hacking skills or they just want me to get tired of exposing them. Anyway, I will expose this then would save my strength for other interesting things. According to Oladimeji, this is another form of careless phishing. Dimeji is an experienced Information Security Expert. I am dedicating this new blog…

I have witnessed several elections in Nigeria and the one I still can't forget is the 1993 Election of Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola (SDP) and Bashir Othman Tofa (NRC). Though I was not in the age bracket that could vote, I can still recite the "M.K.O, is our Man o..." lyrics so well, even till now. The campaign reached everyone; both old and young, poor and rich, people in cities and rural villages. Available technology was utilised but we cannot compare what was achievable back then…

It seems Prestashop cart is becoming the prefered cart (maybe in Nigeria) because the rate at which people are deploying it is amazing. The few integrations I have been doing recently had been dominated by Prestashop cart. There must be something about this cart that people are falling in love with. After few minutes of reviewing iOnePay's documentation here is the iOnePay integration for prestashop. I used Prestashop 1.6.0.6 for this integration.

Follow the following steps for…

Imagine! These Yahoo-Yahoo boys no dey fear at all. I promised myself that any day that I get email from these scammers I will expose them; here is my first one. I received a direct mail in my Yahoo mailbox asking me to reset my EcoBank account. Immediately I got the mail, I laughed. I have never had an EcoBank account (not because I do not like Ecobank), besides that, the content of the mail made me…

Just worked on another open cart payment integration and would like to share it with people to make their life easy.

Follow the following easy steps

Step 1.
Download the module from here and extract it to the root of your open cart installation e.g public_html/webpayopencart.

Step 2.
Install the module by going to your web browser…

I got a call from someone who needed me to integrate UBA payment platform for Presta Cart. I ran into some issues and no thanks to UBA support team because the guy I called could not solve my problem. I finally solved the problem with the assistance of the same person I was doing the integration for, kudos Boss. The addon is compatible with Prestashop 1.4.0 to 1.6.0.6.

Follow the following steps for a successful integration:

Step 1.

Download…

On January 6, 2014 I got a call to appear on a TV program to talk on Entrepreneurship. The TV show is one of biggest in Lagos and Nigeria. The show ended well and insightful. It was a good way to start the yaer.

Your View is a talk show, hosted by women of different backgrounds, disciplines and experiences. They’ll lead discussions on the views of Nigerians about everything and anything that affects our socio-economic and political reality with live call in from viewers to express…

Recently, Nigeria's seventh most popular website went offline for almost 3 days; that is about 72 hours and some other blogs too. It is quite unfortunate but there are lessons that developers and small business owners can learn from this. I feel it is unprofessional to have a website as heavily visited as Nairaland go off that way without doing some necessary things. Part of the signals it sends is that it is probably one man squad behind this web application and he is not running…

On the 7th of September, 2012, I got an email from a Computer Science/Mathematics undergraduate of O.A.U.,Nigeria (Obafemi Awolowo University) asking to come and do his industrial training with Think First Technologies limited. The email was followed up with a call then I asked the guy to forward his CV to my personal email. Here is how the journey to this beautiful application started.

The objective on his CV struck a cord in me and made me to be curious about reading more about his ability.…

Being working on migrating a client's prestashop cart applciation to a VPS and I encountered so many road blocks. Below steps solve my problem a great deal and I am forever grateful to the poster. Underlined part of the post made the difference.

Transferring files

Whether you have your files locally stored, or on another webhosting, you need to upload all of them to the new space. As I am developing using WAMP (you can use MAMP on mac, or XAMPP), I can simply access…

This Boko Haram menace has taken so long in my country (Nigeria) and I feel concerned every time I hear the news of another bomb blast or attack. I am sure the government is really looking into how to curtail the attack of these terrorists but a lot have been suggested over the period these gruesome acts have been happening and I wonder why I have not read or heard an elaborate use of Information Technology to solve this problem. Over a year now I have consistently followed every report, strategy…

It is a tough one working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 with PHP, there is little or no documenations on this online. All the libraries we got are just not the right thing. The challenge ranges from authentication to defining the right data types (new data types are introduced, like money, option sets, two option set value and so on).

This got me and another developer (Nnadozie Omeonu) going sleepless…

After concluding my first ever integration with Interswitch WebPay and fulfilling all their requirements, I find it necessary to write on this blog so as to help other developers that would find the integration worrisome and complicated. Anyway, I felt the same way when I started the integration but my only motivation was to see the integration to completion. After integrating with many payment platforms in Nigeria I still find WebPay as the most stressful because the…

I wonder what the buzz over Diamond webpay on prestashop these days. More than three people have been reaching me for this particular integration. Anway the good news is that, I now have it to make your hustle easier.

Follow the following easy steps and get it done fast and quick so you can face other business.

Step 1.

Download the module here and extract it into…

I just recently started noticing that I couldn't add new host to the list of known hosts on my Ubuntu box and I was wondering what must have gone wrong. Anyway for documentation purposes, I ran below code on my terminal and it solved the issue. Hehehe

sudo chown -v $USER ~/.ssh/known_hosts

Hope this helps someone.

I had a very busy week and I have managed to put together some interesting post. Besides, I became a father few days ago. My wife gave birth to our handsome son. It was such a great experience :-).

However, for sometimes now I have been working on a project that requires integrating Interswitch QuickTeller into Open cart and I decided to post the finished job to put smiile on someone's face.

Follow the following easy steps and get it done fast and quick so you can…

I spent alomst 3 hours figuring out how to get parent's title of a document in Modx Evolution without doing much hack and writing snippets. I surf the internet for so long not until I almost gave up that I got an article that helped out. This is the link http://cipalabs.com/modx/articles/get-the-parent to the article.

The article gave 11 examples of getting the parent and this gave me better insight into solving my problem.

Below…

With the recent launch of at least 20 new Online shops everyday in Nigeria, it is becoming more than important for developers to learn how to integrate to payment gateways in Nigeria and abroad. In every 20 email requests I receive, 15 of them are requests to help integrate with payment platforms and the remaining others are little amendments of e-commerce applications.

Are you a developer and you wish to integrate any off-shelf or custom application…

Lately I don't know why I forget my administrator's account password and I eventually get blocked. I have read the solution sometimes and I have to search for it again. Anyway, I am blogging Zaigham's (aka zi) solution on MODx forum so I can also refer to it whenever I get blocked again. Find his solution below:

You need to have access to phpMyAdmin on your host, if you have not then ask your service provider.

• Now open phpMyAdmin.
• Select your database…