A lot is evolving in Nigeria cyber space and new players are playing it big. I have carefully watched OLX (http://olx.com.ng) and its strategy, I must commend it. This company is characterized with the simple concept - listing. OLX is everywhere, on the street, on tricycle, on Cable, on Radio, in your house and into all our faces. "OLX it" is gradually turning into another…

Over time I've discovered there is no absolute finish line for everyone in the race of life. Our tracks are different and our durations are different. The only thing we have in common is the same empire.

What a life? Life is full of twists, turns-ups and downs and many more surprises and disappointments. Life offers each and everyone of us different opportunities…

Working with MS Dynamics CRM OData could be so tiring when you are tyring to pull all the records you have and you can only get 50 records pulled.

I came across this limitation when I was working on the application that needs to retreive records and display on a page, that can then be searched live. $top won't work because the "MaxResultsPerCollection" has been config as 50 in the MSCRM_Config table. Here is how to increase number of records retreived.

Open…

Yeah, I am still working on the CRM application that needs to communicate with T24 core banking application. It's being lovely until I needed to order the results queried from CRM endpoint in descending order. I tried everything possible with what was provided in the documentation but was getting no results.

Below is what the documentation specified we do to get our result in descending order:

/OpportunitySet?$orderby=ActualCloseDate desc

After so much trial, I realised…

If you are having problems with setting up FileZilla Server to run behind Windows Firewall (specifically, it fails on "List" and the client receives a "Failed to receive directory listing" error), you must add the FileZilla Server application to Windows Firewall's Exceptions list. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Open Windows Firewall under Control Panel.
2. If using Vista, click "Change Settings"
3. Select the "Exceptions" tab.
4. Click "Add program..."
5. Do…

I recently developed a T24 interface and would like to document my technical note for someone new to T24. I was under serious pressure to deliver on this and the learning curve was too steep for me. I had just 3 days to prove my consulting remuneration. Anyway, I got it done within the speculated time frame and below are my technical notes.

Logon
There are two logon you should be aware of, at the server or the application level. At the server level, you logon with…

I was about developing my first Microsoft Dynamics CRM plugin when I ran into the problem of installing the CRM Developer's Toolkit 2011 for my Visual Studio 2013. It is funny there is no SDK installer for Visual Studio 2013 now, as the CRM SDK provided on Microsoft website is for Visual Studio 2011 and 2012. The only option is a work around and below is how I achieved it.

Step 1. Extracting the contents of CrmDeveloperToolsVS12_Installer.msi
I assume…

I was writing a blog post to show people how to filter resources with template variable in my last blog post then I ran into the problem of using MODx tag (Ditto) in my content as well. Because my blog was built on MODx, the tag was being run as it would normally and this really brought me into confusion of how to escape the tag.

After much of stress I decided to use an image to represent this so I can leave the office and continue my search as I pick a Taxi home.…

While creating my blog, the need for my readers to be able to filter my post with some specified tags became a challenge. This can be likened to tags in some other blogs.

Below was how I figured it out:

Create your template variables with "||" separating them as explained below:



I choose radio option for the input type because my posts are mutually exculsive (one post can't have…

The student asks the master how long it takes most students to master their system. The master replies, "15 years". The student is shocked, then asks "how long would it take me if I work twice as hard”? The master replies, "30 years"! The student protests, "but what if I practice 3 times longer and harder than all the other students, then how long will it take me"? The master smiles and answers, "then it will take you 45 years".

To me, integrating payment platforms has been a fantastic experience and I would really say Nigeria has evolved in terms of payment convenience. There are so many payment platforms in Nigeria and I have worked with many of them (if not all). So, I thought it would be a great idea if I could share my perception of the top five good and secured payment platforms in Nigeria. I would base my assessment on these; integration work flow, vulnerability, documentation, support, setup…

One of the basic problems you run into is "Error Oracle Undefined variable: rowcount in oci8_result.php" when CodeIgniter is trying to get row count while working with Oracle DB. The error coming out as below:

Severity: Notice
Message: Undefined variable: rowcount
Filename: oci8/oci8_result.php
Line Number: XX

Open the file oci8_result.php in (../system/database/drivers/oci8/oci8_result.php) and change 

I stumbled upon a very good payment platform called PesaPal while going through some eCommerce applications in Kenya.  Clicking to pay blew my mind, it presented many payment options ranging from mobile money to other payment gateways in Kenya. I so much love what I was seeing so I decided to integrate it into Prestashop to understand their integration process/procedure. I must confess it is just superb!

Follow the following steps for a successful integration:

Step…

I got a job I would be migrating an application developed in PHP/MYSQL to PHP/ORACLE. The first relieve was that the application was developed in Codeigniter.

As if all the challenges of setting up the server was not enough, I ran into "This feature is not available for the database you are using." error when using the Active Record $this->db->get_insert_id() fuction.

Immediately I got the concern in the ORACLE driver that was shipped with Codeigniter because ORACLE does not support…

One of my clients got a Rackspace cloud server which I am to build for one of the applications we developed for him. It was so natural for me to build a Ubuntu server because that is the OS I have been very familiar with for many years now. I built the server, crossed many huddles and finally deployed the application. Yeah, we were good.

Some months later, something ridiculous happened and the server was suspended. I was baffled and after much consultation with the customer personnel person…

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…