Unlike Humpty Dumpty, Core Won’t Fall
On Wednesday, Mark Essien dropped a tweet that started a little uproar. Some people agreed, some disagreed. Some were sad, but still agreed. Core likes to seat on the fence, but unlike Humpty Dumpty, Core won’t fall. Never.
Remember the iRoko TV Code Competition? Well, Jason felt there were no globally standard talents in Lagos, talk less Nigeria, but at the end of the competition, his thought process changed.
Now let’s go back to Mark’s tweet, while thinking of the iRoko TV incident. Mark is saying we don’t have globally good devs (that is the top devs here may not rank high on a global scale) and iRoko has seen that there are good devs that could and would rank high globally, but they aren’t the ones we see everywhere, they are coded, quiet and making good stuff in their silos.
Core wants to fix that, and by the powers self-bestowed on Core, Core shall bring them out. Now Core thinks the title should have been Discovery, but Core doesn’t make mistakes so the title is correct✌
Developer News From Nigeria
Our Time With GitHub in Lagos
Core is still recovering from the pains of missing this meetup, there was so much Core wanted to tell Octocat. But no problems, our usual video call will do.
Load Balancing with HAProxy
Load balancing is the direction to go, if you get a lot of traffic and are looking for high availability.
For the Newbies: 5 Web Ideas to Test Your Coding Skills
Core likes challenges, and the Fizzbuzz was a good one. Thanks AceKYD for hooking Core up with this.
The UI/UX Section
The State of UX in 2016
How do different companies do UX in-house? Well it differes from place to place, hereLeah helps make it a bit more clearer.
Designing an Onboarding Process Right!
If you’re one of those people that makes Core go through brief torture every time Core uses your product, please read this.
5 of the Most Common Mistakes UX Designers Made This Year
A lot of new trends popped up this year, both in UI and UX designs. Nick helps shed more light on some mistakes made by UX designers trend hopping and how best to work with new trends.
Events
Jelly at CapitalSquare
Jelly is CapitalSquare’s free work day as well as a meetup is happening this Friday. You can use the co-working space for free and interact with like minded people.
Localhost — Building to scale
Terragon is holding a get together for veteran engineers in Nigeria, who can build solutions for a thousand users without breaking a sweat.
If you’re one of those guys, register here
forLoop 2016 End of Year Party
forLoop is throwing a party this Saturday, be sure not to miss out.
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Core.
