AC remote control with LCD display

AC remote control with LCD display

By Hafiz Adewuyi   January 24, 2016   No comments :

There's some things probably only a programmer gets to bother about. And the one this article is based on looks a lot like a perfect candidate.

In my apartment, each AC has a remote control. Each remote control has an LCD display which indicates the working temperature of the AC. The AC on the other hand does not have a temperature indicator. Which means your only source of information on the AC's working temperature is it's remote control display.

Each time I have to regulate an AC in the apartment, my idle mind often goes out to wonder about what logic the AC - remote control system works with:

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UP or DOWN (Case 1)

1. When the '<' or '>' button is pressed once on the remote control and the AC is within range of receiving the signal, the AC's working temperature goes one notch down or up, respectively;

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Get an LCC eTag in five easy steps

Get an LCC eTag in five easy steps

By Hafiz Adewuyi   January 24, 2016   7 comments :

Prependix
LCC - Lekki Concession Company
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Having gotten my Lekki toll gate eTag (ready for collection) in under 24 hours, I will never understand why many daily pliers of the Lekki-Epe expressway continue to subject themselves to the hardship of tollgate queues.

DISCLAIMER: I actually understand, but ain't nobody got time to talk about the sorry state of the average Nigerian man.

Honestly, I would never have imagined the process was this seamless if I had not tried myself. In light of that, I think I could help a couple of folks who just need it spelt out to them why they should get their electronic tolling device right away!!!

WHY SHOULD YOU GET AN eTag?
It's very easy to get. LCC is not a government agency, or if it is, at least, it's not the typical one. Why do I say this?

The customer service I got while trying to find my way around the registration process was unbelievably good for typical Nigerian standards. Also, my tolling devices were ready for collection within two hours of my submitting my application.

Also, it's 100% free to get the device and you pay 10% less than the cash bearers for each passage through the toll gate.

Now, do I hear you ask how to go about getting yours too? Say please...

Okay, okay; here we go:

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A reward for helping

A reward for helping

By Hafiz Adewuyi   January 16, 2016   No comments :

Just before I took my current job, I got one of the most ridiculous sounding pieces of advice from a friend who's been in the industry for a quite a while ahead of me. "Don't let it be clear all that you can do, because you will tend to get saddled with too many responsibilities then". At the time, yes, I thought it was ridiculous. At the company where I was coming from, it was expected that you contribute all you can to the work. And when you show and share your capabilities, you get rewarded by the improved relationship between you and your colleagues. Help is a universally understood language, and people like people that make their lives better by contributing to it via help.

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How come your name is Hafiz?

How come your name is Hafiz?

By Hafiz Adewuyi   January 03, 2016   No comments :

Yesterday, I spent all my waking time with some really cool human who believes that I'm the type who documents all recurring questions in my life for the sake of automation.

Here I am thinking, why not. It makes a lot of sense. It feels a tad tedious each time I have to recount the story of how my name is Hafiz, despite the fact that I am not a Muslim.

So here is your answer, in case you ever wondered about title question. All subsequent inquirers will be redirected to this blog going forward; no stories please. There's absolutely no time to be answering such flimsy questions that never lead anywhere over and over again. Perhaps, it'd filter out those that don't really care to know, due to the extra work of opening a link and reading (something we Africans are renowned for loathing).

PROCEDURE

• Mum was born Christian (both parents Christian)

• Dad was born* Muslim (both parents Muslim)

• Mum married Dad

• Mum, for the sake of love and conjugal peace, was 'naturalized' to Islam by marriage

• I was born Muslim (both parents Muslim), so I get plastered with name: Hafiz

• Dad dies a little too early (due respects to the deceased). The Islamic pillar in the (nuclear) family concurrently and quite understandably, collapses

• Mum reverts to default state (Christianity) having no further support to continue in Islam; an adopted faith

• Alas! What is a ten-year old Hafiz to do but to tag along with mum. After much resistance (I and my big sis) due to our love for daddy, I finally started to attend (church) service in JSS 2. After a while, I was grateful I did not have to agonize about missed prayers or concatenate all my missed prayers into one long bout of tedium. I think I should record here that there was actually more than one religion switch at this turbulent phase of my life (Islam to Christianity, back to Islam and finally, Christianity)

It's not like I was doing that well in the Islamic faith anyways. I and my siblings had a way of always falling behind in our Islamic classes (ile kewu). While our peers were being celebrated for completing the Quran, we were perpetually stuck at learning a meager extract of the Islamic guide book called Tirah.

Name change attempt
Having taken this much pain to find out more about me, I consider it an obligation that I regale you with the story of my failed name-change efforts.

I had decided on exiting high school to grab the opportunity of a new (college) community to change my first name. So, as soon as I got into UNILAG, during registration stage, I started introducing myself as Gbenga. Problem is, I only remembered to do that about 10% of the time. The other time, I did not successfully catch myself before 'Hafiz' escaped my lips. Well, the rest is history as they say.

If you know me, you know how it turned out. I lost the battle due to my lameness; I wonder if I'm still that lame.

Well, there you have it. One more task automated, my current oga at the top would be proud of me. He's a sucker for automation. Lazy guy; yes, he says so himself, so who am I?

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* Dad was born before Mum

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2015 is gone; alas!

2015 is gone; alas!

By Hafiz Adewuyi   January 03, 2016   No comments :

The reason I headed over to my blog today was to write something entirely different from a new year's note. However, when I opened the blog homepage, one of the first things I noticed was my blog archive (shows summary count of blog posts). 

Blog Archive; disappointing performance (18/38 or 47%).

In a flash, it dawned on me how I'd failed woefully at reaching my goal of twice the number of posts from 2014. Yes, I had set that goal quite early in the year. I even documented it but am unable to locate the post where I'd done that.

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