Celestine, Segun, Bruce, Mukoshy and I in the process of overflowing the stack!!! For some unexplainable reasons, I already told myself that I won’t write any post related to my but then I saw excellent article. Immediately, I was fired up!!! But then, “2016 in review”, Segun Famisa’s 2016 in review me to me, I was like, NO!!! The next day, after consuming large portions of beef and vegetable from my , I came online. Guess what I saw? inspiring article. mama Ire Aderinokun’s 2016 in review Me to me, again, I was like: Be Calm!!! I would be the on if i said 2016 was ordinary for me. It was incredibly , , and , ! Special Adviser to the Devil Lying Affairs amazing outstanding super-lit OMG Open Source Projects This year I had the privilege of working on a lot of open source projects. At different times last year, some of these projects surprisingly got massive attention. 😱😱😱😱 : A comprehensive hackathon/MVP boilerplate for Laravel web applications. Laravel Hackathon Starter Guard your users against entering dumb passwords in your Laravel 5 apps. Laravel Password: : Curated list of awesome open source crafted web & mobile applications for developers to learn from. Awesome Open Source apps : Laravel 5 Lite Package for . Laravel Paystack Paystack : Motor Vehicle Registration Information Search Portal Library. Mvrd : PHP Client Library for Jusibe SMS REST API Service . Also created a and for it. Jusibe PHP Lib https://jusibe.com Laravel package Notification Channel Library : Atom package: Aurelia snippets using ES6 syntax. Atom Aurelia Snippets : A CLI tool for Hackers, HR Associates, HR Managers and Lazy People to read . 💻 💁 🙋 Linda Ikeji CLI Linda Ikeji : Laravel 5 Package to Detect Users Browsers, Devices, Languages and Operating Systems. 📦 📱 Laravel Identify Me inflicting the community with PHP & Laravel Community with Dev tools. Photo Credit: Mohini Ufelli : Laravel 5 Package that provides a fluent API for states and cities in Nigeria. 📦 🍀 Laravel Ngsc Laravel Quotes: Laravel 5 Package that provides all kinds of quotes from success to to life to DJKHALED for your Laravel app! 🔑 🙏 programming Laravel Emoji: Laravel 5 Package that harnesses the power of PHP 7 unicode features to provide emojis in your laravel app. 😋 A Vue.js directive for sharing page items to twitter. Vue twittershare: : PHP Package to Show beautiful cool ascii faces like ᕙ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ᕗ in your terminal. Ascii Faces : A Laravel exam project with questions from beginner to expert curated by the community and I. Laravel Exam You can check for a lot more I created and worked on this year on my . Github Account Writing This year I wrote a lot. I had the opportunity of writing over 80 articles, and . technical non-technical These were amongst my most popular articles — . One way to Greatness: Pick Yourself . Jon Skeet — The Chuck Norris of Programming . Build A Universal JavaScript App with Next.js . Bootstrapping a React Project . 5 Things you can do with Yarn . Creating your First Laravel app and adding authentication . How to build your own Youtube — Part 1 (A series from Part 1 to 10) . Build a Customer Service Messaging App in 5 minutes . Multi-factor Authentication in your React Apps . Human beings are Open Source Projects Speaking This year also, I had the opportunity to give talks and offer mentorship at and and I remember the following: local international meetups conferences. In February, I gave a talk on Package Development & Open Sourcery at the Lagos Laravel Meetup . In April, I gave a crazy talk on Continuous Delivery without the drama at the forLoop Lagos Developer event . In May, I gave a webinar talk on You can listen to it and check out the . Rapid Application Development with Laravel Spark. here slides In September, and I gave a talk on at conference in . Segun Famisa(the Chief & Dada Android Master) “Identity Management in Your Apps” DevCraft Nairobi, Kenya ( Left: During my session. Right: Segun, I & a Kenyan developer) In October, Celestine Omin(Senior Technical Assistant at Andela) and I gave on , and in did a talks How to become a better developer Scaling your applications Developer War Stories Accra, Ghana. Ahmed Salifou of PHPOcean recap . Prosper & Ghanian Developers. A few Nigerians too! In October, I was invited to inspire the graduating students at . Valley View University, Ghana Who am I to refuse? Went in there & fired them up!!! Graduating Computer Students of Valley View University On November 4, I was in . I gave a talk on U at Check out the Jos, Plateau State ser Identity Management in Your Apps with Auth0 HackJos . slides . (Left: Giving the talk in Jos, Right: Initiated Developers in Jos into the Auth0 Army) On November 18, I gave an inspiring talk(So, I heard) about at becoming a World Class Developer GDG DevFest South-East , PortHarcourt, Nigeria. Giving the World Class Developer Talk in Port-Harcourt On November 19, I gave a talk about at the debut in . How to become a World Class Developer GDG Asaba event, Delta State, Nigeria (Left: Developers in Asaba, Right: Me giving the talk) was the title of my talk at on November 25**.** Firebase for the Web GDG DevFest South-West , Lagos, Nigeria Giving the talk on Firebase at GDG DevFest Lagos I appeared in on November 26 to give another talk on magically Abuja, Nigeria Firebase for the Web at GDG North Central DevFest . Check out this wonderful video recap of the experience . (Left: Giving the talk in Abuja, Right: Discussing with Musti and a techy) GDG North Central DevFest 2016 In 6 Minutes — Recap I was in from November 28 — December 2 to mentor startups at the week long event. Nairobi, Kenya Google Launchpad Nairobi (Left: The Hotel room was nice, so my mouth couldn’t close, Right: Me at iHub during the event) Work ,Travel & Adventure I worked as a Technical Trainer at until around mid-year 2016. I spent the later part of the year consulting for & . This gave me the opportunity to travel to the for the first time to attend Auth0’s Offsite Annual Event in . Andela Auth0 Cloudinary United States of America Washington Left: Prosper & Auth0-ians chilling, Right: Prosper and Jared Hanson(Creator of PassportJs) I had the opportunity to travel again to the and in U.S.A for Chrome Developer Summit Google Developer Expert Summit San-Francisco. (Left: The Great Addy Osmani & I at ChromeDevSummit, San-Franciso) I also visited Kenya, Ethiopia, Germany and Ghana. Recognition My first in 2016 got me trending for almost 3 weeks on Github top PHP developers. So this happened: open source project _By Christine Magee On Sunday, Prosper Otemuyiwa, lead trainer and developer at Andela's Lagos campus, released his…_andela.com How An Andela Developer Beat Out Facebook On GitHub's Top Trending List - Andela I got featured on . laraveldaily.com _While reading Twitter feed everyday, I see more and more new people in Laravel community. At the same time there are…_laraveldaily.com Top 15 Laravel People to Follow Online - Laravel Daily I was nominated for the along side great developers like Unfortunately it later got cancelled. Still, the nomination really got me fired up. Thanks to all of you that encourage and support me daily. JavaScript Legend Award Eric Elliot, Addy Osmani(Googler), James Kyle(Babel), Dan Abramov(Redux & React), Rob Eisenberg(Aurelia), Wes Bos and Sindre Sorhus . I got featured on . TechCabal _There's a super secret list of the best Nigerian programmers. We, TechCabal.com *collectively beat chests* have that…_techcabal.com Nigeria's Top Programmers as ranked by GitHub I got featured on Code Maven Open Source Podcast. _20:35 Prosper Otemuyiwa Okay, so I...oh my God, I have a lot of plans! I am very much a community person so I...it's a…_code-maven.com CMOS #15: Prosper Otemuyiwa - Laravel I got featured on Developeronfire.com Podcast. _Prosper is a full stack software engineer and writer who's worked on biometric, health, financial and developer tools…_developeronfire.com Episode 195 | Prosper Otemuyiwa - Creating Masters I got featured on . Guardian Newspaper _Fire and Community Prosper Otemuyiwa is a young Nigerian software developer who believes in giving back to the…_guardian.ng The year of the software developer I became a the third & youngest in Nigeria. Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, _Google Experts are a global network of experienced product strategists, designers, developers and marketing…_developers.google.com Google Experts | Experts | Google Developers Life My Family: Dad, Mum and Siblings were all in good health in this year. I turned 24 in October this year & it was a very memorable experience. I registered my tiny company. I bought my first car this year. 💪✌️ I lost an and a this year. 😢 Well, I upgraded to an and a , sorry Macbook! 🚀🚀🚀🚀 IPhone 6 MacBook IPhone 7 better Machine I did not read any non-technical book this year. 😢 Finally, I met the goddess of sarcasm, an amazing young Architect & most importantly an . I mean, what could be better than having someone constantly poking you to do better & supporting you all the way. Thank you, Elsie!!! Edo geh What about 2017? I’m excited for 2017. In short, I already tagged it the year of excellence. As Uncle already stated, I’ve activated the #beastMode for 2017. These are just a few of my world domination plan in the coming year: Victor Asemota : I want to do a lot more JavaScript, write more dev that will make the developer’s life blissful. Open Source tools : I want to write more technical articles and take my writing to the next level. I’ll endeavour to write and publish 3 books. This is a very herculean task but as they say; Writing if your dreams don’t scare you, then you haven’t started. I want to speak in major conferences, give more powerful & highly entertaining talks in several meetups and conferences. Speaking: I want to travel to at least ! 7 new countries I met so many amazing people this year that I didn’t mention here. I’m thankful and grateful for how you all have helped me grow. Cheers to an amazing 2017. #BeastMode 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

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