Nigeria is Now
Last year Mark Zuckerberg visited Nigeria.
This year Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google is here.
These actions are more than just PR visits.
They are a validation of the Nigerian technology market.
It’s time to Shine.
ARE YOU READY?
You can read more about Sundar’s visit and Google’s announcements for Nigeria here.
Interesting stuff From this Week
Runbook Automation with Zabbix and Rundeck
Kosy explains how you can integrate Zabbix trigger based actions into Rundeck. Rundeck is a job scheduler and automation tool while Zabbix is software for measuring metrics in your application.
Introduction to Android components
Google Developer Expert Rebecca Franks talks about architectuer components in this Hangouts on Air. You should totally watch it.
Using GraphQL in ASP.NET
In this multi-part series, Michael is explaining in detail, how to add GraphQL API explorer to your ASP.NET Web API.
Many to Many relationship using Sequelize ORM (Postgres) on Express
Michael Ozoemena was a bit confused while setting up a relationship between tables using the Sequelize ORM. He fixed it and made a guide.
The Design Section
100 Day Animation Challenge
Oshoma recently completed a 100 Day animation challenge and made a showreel of his work. Watch and show him some Retweet love.
Get Past your Creative Block
Henry wrote a great article on Think Senpai about getting past your creative block and becoming…umm… more creative.
From the Community
Laravel Login with Facebook
@sirolad created a simple package to make password-less login possible in Laravel using Facebook’s account kit.
Boilerplate to build Go web apps
@stephenafamo created a boilerplate for creating websites using Go.
Designindex.io
Designindex is a curated list of UI/UX resources created by Imogie Mubarak. It’s being developed and updated by friends.
Events
Microsoft is Hiring
Are you a University student who loves to write code? Microsoft is running a code competition for students. Deadline is the 29th of July so hurry.
Devcenter Developer Session
The next Devcenter Developer Session will hold on Monday 31st of July at 5pm WAT . This session will hold in Square’s slack in the #dev-xp-sessions channel. Joining us are Samuel Gikandi — CTO Africa’s Talking (@gikandi) & Micheal Okpala — Software Developer Africa’s Talking (@mikedeace).
Keep the flag flying,
Core.
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