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Etop Ikpe and his team at the Nigerian vehicle marketplace, Cars45.com, are no doubt feeling great following the successful close of the company's $5 million Series A funding round a couple of weeks ago. Given the tough time Nigeria's e-commerce industry has been having of late, the significance of this achievement is not lost on us. Previously the Commercial Director of Konga-- one of Nigeria’s largest online shopping platforms, and formerly the CEO and Co-MD of DealDey, Etop is unquestionably an e-commerce veteran at this point. Etop joined DealDey after the startup acquired Three Stitches-- Nigeria’s first e-commerce website dedicated to fashion, which he founded in 2008. Prior to that, Etop founded Tinker Bell Media LTD, which produced We Run the Game-- a syndicated sports program broadcast terrestrially across 12 Broadcast Networks. Cars45 is Nigeria's largest used car sales platform and runs local inspection centres in strategic locations around the country which help customers value and sell their cars within 45 minutes.

Speical Episode of PHPUGly where John Congdon and Eric Van Johnson do a combined Podcast with SammyK of PHP Roundtable and Amanda Folson of PHP Town Hall at the php[arch] php[tek] Conference in Atlanta, Georiga.

Etop Ikpe and his team at the Nigerian vehicle marketplace, Cars45.com, are no doubt feeling great following the successful close of the company's $5 million Series A funding round a couple of weeks ago. Given the tough time Nigeria's e-commerce industry has been having of late, the significance of this achievement is not lost on us. Previously the Commercial Director of Konga-- one of Nigeria’s largest online shopping platforms, and formerly the CEO and Co-MD of DealDey, Etop is unquestionably an e-commerce veteran at this point. In this episode of the African Tech Round-up, he explains why Nigeria's e-commerce scene hasn't lived up to many of the lofty expectations that were set for it five or six years ago. Also in this show, Andile chats with Ammin Youssouf, who formerly founded and helmed the celebrated creative agency, Big Youth, before co-founding and serving as CEO at Afrobytes Ventures. Listen in to hear what Ammin and his team have in store for those of us attending Europe's premier Africa-focussed tech gathering, the Afrobytes Tech Conference, on June 8th and 9th 2017. Music Credits: Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Music licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Topics covered in this episode:

• How to Create Your First Python 3.6 AWS Lambda Function
• How to Publish Your Package on PYPI
• Coconut: Simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming
• Choose a licence
• Python for Scientists and Engineers
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/27

IBM, You're wrong, remote work matters.

In today's episode the gang chats about remote work with Zapier CEO Wade Foster and celebrates SO en Español with CM Juan Garza. Plus in the News Stack Overflow converted to HTTPS and IBM makes a huge mistake.

Recorded May 18th, 2017

Show Notes:

• Windows Subsystem for Linux welcomes Suse and Fedora options
• Bump minimum version to PHP 7.1 for Symfony 4
• Why does PHP 7.1 use 61% more memory than PHP 7.0
• Vendors approve of NIST password draft
• Ghostscript lawsuit
• Quickly dd anything from the commandline
• Amazon Echo will soon play ads
• A ransomware attack is spreading worldwide

Topics covered in this episode:

• * Two part series on interactive terminal applications*
• How have you automated your life with python?
• Spelling with Elemental Symbols
• IDE's for beginners
• PDF Plumber
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/26