BREAKING NEWS: Core Will Be At #DevFest16
DevFest 2016 Alert
The 2016 Google Developers Group festivals are ON!!!
If you haven’t heard, your last is heavy. We’re going to send you a LASTMA Uniform.
But, if You’re like me and live in the major cities…
#DevFest16 will be coming to Lagos this Friday and Abuja on Saturday.
Expect to receive some Anointing from Nigeria’s finest developers. There’ll be talks on Firebase, preachings on Open Source and deliverances from all your UI/UX sins.
Maybe you can catch a glimpse of Core or touch the hem of his garment.
Developer News from Nigeria
Machine Learning For Android — Text Detection
Moyin hit us with the 3rd part of this series. The Text Detection API allows for detecting text in images and videos. Dope!
Hotels.ng created a SlackBot for Bank Alerts
The guys at Hotels.ng created a tool for their finance deparment to use within Slack. It’s essentially a SlackBot that sends alerts to the relevant channels. The bot works for GTBank, Zenith Bank, UBA, Skye Bank and First Bank. P-Square is proud.
Read about this and check the code
Introducing SWITCH!
Sheriff Shittu started learning programming against all odds. Now he’s teaching other people programming for free. SWITCH! will run programs every three months.
Imisi3D’s Hackathon Winners
Imisi3D’s hackathon finally ended over the weekend. Timigod, Osarumen, Tade Olumide and Abdumalik built an application that teaches programming concepts in Virtual Reality. This is exciting.
The UI/UX Section
Principles of Mobile Site Design
We already know mobile is the present, future and future’s future. Nick Babich writes about designing for mobile and how you should go about it.
This is very important. Read It
HTML5.1 is the new W3C recommendation
The World Wide Web Consortium has announced HTML5.1 as its new standard for webpages.
How to Make A Logo in 5 Minutes
If you’ve got 5 minutes to spare, Marc will teach you how to design a logo for free in that time.
Events
GDG DevFest
Google Developer Groups across the world are holding DevFests in campuses, event centres and just about anywhere developers can meet. There are tons of GDG events holding in Nigeria this month. Click the link and allow the map pick your location to find events near you.
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Get more sleep this week,
Core.
