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Hey there,
I hope you had a fantastic day.
The World Wide Web turned 30 yesterday. Its inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, brought his idea to life in 1989. Today, almost half the world is online. Simply amazing.
[This might be a good time to mention that the world wide web != the Internet. Here's the difference.]
March has been an exciting month for us here at forloop Africa, and April might follow in its footsteps. As promised, we're launching another forloop Africa Community in Zimbabwe! forloop Zimbabwe will be hosting its maiden event, Meet, Share, Collaborate, on the 13th of April, 2019. The Call For Papers is out, and if you'd like to give a talk at the event, fill this form.
If you'd like to attend the maiden event, cop your seat here.
More for you:
+ Chrome Lite Pages has been released. Lite pages will allow you to load web pages fast despite poor connections. Read more about it here.
+ v8js v7.4 now supports JIT-less mode, where Javascript executes without allocating executable memory at runtime. Read more about the feature.
+ Sublime Text 3.2 has been released. If the popular IDE is your text editor of choice, check out the new features here.
+ Laravel v5.8.4 has been released. New features include new collection join method and HTTP Kernel middleware getter. Check out the release notes.
+ forloop Tanzania first launched last year with their maiden event, The Next Billion Users: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. In this article, they share what they have been up to since the launch and an upcoming hackathon. Read all about it here.
+ Don't forget that the forloop Unilorin meetup, Knowing Your Stack, still holds on the 16th of March. If you'll be in the city, register here.
+ Join us at Marrakech, Morroco for our first forloop event in North Africa. The forloop Morroco event, The Craft of Modern Software Development, will take place on the 23rd of March, 2019. Cop your seat here!
The forloop Morroco event is sponsored by Cloudinary.
Jobs & Opportunities
- Andela, through its Community Manager, Babajide Duroshola (at the forloop Lagos Summit), has announced that it will now be hiring developers across different experience levels. if you would like to join Andela as a senior developer, this link holds your chance.
Andela will still be taking on aspiring developers through its fellowship cycles. If you'd like to join, apply here.
- Microsoft is hiring in Nigeria. Check out requirements for the Software Engineer and Software Engineer 2 roles, and apply.
- Genesys Tech Hub is accepting applications to its 2019 Genesys Internship Program, Codename Learnable. The program is a 6-month long learning experience for undergraduates or fresh graduates pursuing a career in tech. The scope covers software development, product design, and business development. if you'd like to participate, simply apply here.
- Zeit is looking to hire amazing people that will grow the company through Accessibility, Communications and Community Development, Sales & Distribution, Back-end and Front-end engineering, UX/UI design, and Security. Here's how to apply.
- Ingressive Capital is looking to invest $50,000 to $100,000 in tech-focused, early-stage startups in Sub-Saharan Africa. If you're a founder, this is for you. Find more details here and apply.
- SoftcomNG is looking to hire Front-end and Back-end developers. If this interests you, and you think you're a great fit, send your resume and portfolio to hello[at]softcom[dot]ng.
- VanHack is still listing amazing opportunities to join tech teams in Canada. Check out the openings for Senior Software Engineer (React), Data Engineer, ReactJS Engineer, and DevOps Engineer. If you're new to Vanhack, register and create your profile here to begin, and if you're an existing VanHack talent, apply here.
- Following Andela's recent announcement on closing a funding round worth $100 million, they have revealed plans to double their developer capacity and expand to other countries in Africa. Here's yet another opportunity to join the Andela Software Engineering Fellowship. Sign up here, and tell a friend too.
Read this
- Ire Aderinokun shares "Removing duplicate objects in an Array (is hard)".
On Building Things
@ChigboEmmajiugo, @iamjolaosoyusuf, @anjie_bee, and Joshua have built a CLI after Flutterwave's Rave. The CLI helps developers generate sample apps for rave's different features. Check out the CLI for PHP, Python, and Javascript.
To catch up on all upcoming dev related events, be sure to check the forloop.africa/meetups link. Also, if someone cool forwarded this to you, you can just subscribe here to get it in your inbox, going forward. Want to read the archive? Here you go.
Have a great evening!
Jennifer Onwudiwe.
Writer
Solomon
Retired Superhero. Editor.
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