DEV Community: Sylvester Nkeze

Explain Service Containers in laravel like i am Five

Sylvester Nkeze — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 02:02:43 +0000

I have been working with laravel for a couple of years and still, i get bit confused about this concept. A lucid refresher on this would be really nice !!

Any advice on a good budget laptop for programming ?

Sylvester Nkeze — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 15:02:30 +0000

My current laptop has served its purpose for over 5 years (right from my first hello world in php) and it is time for me to bid it farewell after persistent over-heating issues. Now, i am really indecisive about which good laptop to currently go for due to my budget constraint (any device south of $540) and desire for a laptop with a good battery backup (power supply is a big issue in my country). Please fellow devs, which affordable laptop would you advice i go for ?

How can i load sass files on nuxt with sass-loader ?

Sylvester Nkeze — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 01:07:47 +0000

I intend loading bulma sass files from node modules into my components on nuxtjs but I am not getting any lead way. After installing both node-sass and sass-loader (coupled with the several hours I have spent trying to set them up on nuxt.config.js with zero success) I have really hit a dead end here guys, please help me.

How can i use vue spa in a codeigniter view layer.

Sylvester Nkeze — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:32:53 +0000

I am more conversant with laravel and vue but i am stuck in a project that will be making use of codeigniter. My role in the project is in the frontend and i wish to know how i can integrate vue spa in codeigniter's view

How i came to appreciate teaching as a learning aid

Sylvester Nkeze — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 22:01:33 +0000

To be honest, I always dreaded the thought of teaching, due to the fact that I really sucked at it. But recently, my perception about teaching changed when I was called upon to give an introductory lecture on web design to a few set of people (some of whom are older than I am). I felt skirmish when I received the invite. Backing out was really beginning to feel like the best option. Like, who the hell was I kidding? I was fighting impostor Syndrome. Feeling like no project I was taking on was even good enough. I would not have been able to complete my new portfolio website if not for the courage I got from @dhavalwd ‘s post about his new portfolio.
With all these in mind, I pushed the unsteady thoughts aside and took on the challenge.

Lecture Day

I knew this task wasn’t going to be easy but my mind wasn’t prepared for the degree of fun I would derive from lecturing. At the inception of the lecture, I was teaching a few set of people who did not know how the internet works. But the lecture ended with a set of people who were talking about HTML elements, tags, html attributes and a bit of CSS. Learning was just a two-way process that day due to the interactivity of the session (I learnt while the learnt). I couldn’t complete my syllabus with them but I was extremely excited with the impact made. I even got to immensely appreciate my web development skill much more than ever.

Lesson Learnt

The act of teaching and learning is just synonymous to the concept of a trash-bin. A trash-bin filled to the brim will have no importance if its content is not disposed. The disposed content of the trash-bin is been recycled, consumed and returned back to the trash-bin. There would be nothing to learn if no one is willing to teach. Guess I am just going to dust off my forgotten stack overflow account and push out the little I got in my knowledge bank. By the way, this here is my first Dev post.