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Jun 17, 2021 | vuejsLast week I gave a talk at AlpineDay entitled "From Vue to Alpine: How & Why". I put up my slides from my AlpineDay tal...
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Jan 25, 2021 | twitter, zapierRecently Twitter started promoting their v2 API, which includes requiring all developers to re-apply to get developer credent...
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Dec 8, 2020 | laravel, sail, docker, takeoutToday Taylor Otwell, the creator of Laravel, released Laravel Sail, a tool that makes it incredibly easy to spin up developme...
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May 11, 2020 | php, composer, autoload, packageIf you've never built a PHP package before, it might seem a bit daunting to figure out how to start. Where does the package a...
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Apr 6, 2020 | live streaming, twitch, youtube, streamingWhen I wrote my post about getting started live streaming, I wanted to share my Stream Deck setup as well, but I figured it w...
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Apr 6, 2020 | live streaming, twitch, youtube, streamingI recently wrote a huge post about how to set up your office or home office with lights, webcams, and audio for a variety of ...
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Mar 16, 2020 | remote workI recently wrote a blog post about perfecting your remote work setup with lights, mics, and cameras. I took a deep dive into ...
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Feb 5, 2020 | hardware, live streaming, podcasting, youtube, cameras, webcam, audio, remote workI've started live streaming and publishing videos on my YouTube Channel again recently and it made me realize just how much w...
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Sep 23, 2019My friend Justin Jackson recently wrote a blog post entitled "The Haters", a wonderful dive into the psychology of people wh...
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Jul 24, 2019 | laravel, vaporThis was originally a live blog. I'll be updating it to add screenshots and links as I get them. Here's a video of the annou...
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Feb 12, 2019 | composer, jigsawTighten is about to publish a blog post about how to convert your WordPress site to Jigsaw, and I wanted to make sure we had ...
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Dec 13, 2018Note: As I was about to publish this post that I started on November 27, we made the (somewhat crazy) decision to push b...
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Oct 19, 2018 | laravel, discoverability, TelescopeLaravel Telescope is a new application debugging assistant from Laravel, written by Mohamed Said and Taylor Otwell. It's op...
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Jul 25, 2018 | novaThese are my notes that I took during the announcement on 2018-07-25. I hope to go back later and update this after a more ...
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Jul 13, 2018 | ci, mysql, codeshipEvery site I've used Codeship on—until today—has either used SQLite in testing or has worked fine with MySQL 5.6....
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Jun 6, 2018Recently, I grew tired of hearing people say, "Laravel is fine for small apps, but when you are working in the Enterprise..."...
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Jun 5, 2018I'm giving a talk soon about Laravel and "the enterprise", and the concept of LOC (lines of code) keeps coming up. It turns o...
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May 21, 2018Tighten is a consultancy. That means we're not just a product company; we also work on other people's applications and sites....
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May 18, 2018 | jigsawI love Tighten's static site generator, Jigsaw. I've tried a few other static site generators, and (of course, I'm biased) I ...
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May 14, 2018 | vuejsWhat's this all about? I used to write Vue.js. In 2015 I did a series on Twitch/YouTube where I learned Vue "out loud", shar...
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Apr 12, 2018 | finances“I’m so glad we studied parallelograms in school instead of wasting our time on stuff like how to do our taxes. It rea...
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Jan 21, 2018 | laravel, iot, lifx(Already familiar with IoT and LIFX? Skip straight to the tutorial; TL;DR is that you can, with a few lines of code, directly...
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Aug 22, 2017 | laravel, laravel 5.4, FacadesLaravel 5.4 introduced a new feature called “real-time facades”, which provide the convenience of facades, defined real-t...
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Aug 17, 2017 | laravel, collectionsIt seems like it was just last year that collection pipelines took over the Laravel world. Taylor had introduced collections ...
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Aug 15, 2017 | laravel, tap, collectionsIf you follow Adam Wathan at all, you’ve seen him use his favorite function, tap(), dozens of times in his videos. But what...
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Jul 25, 2017 | laravel, horizon, queuesAt Laracon 2017, today, Taylor introduced the latest package in the Laravel world. Like Cashier, Scout, and Passport before i...
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Jul 25, 2017 | laravel, laravel 5.5, laraconTimeline: releasing August-ish; around Eu Frontend presets php artisan preset react; default React components php artisan ...
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Jul 22, 2017 | laravel, lamboIf you're not familiar with Lambo, it's a command-line tool I built to quickly spin up a new Laravel application and take ...
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Jul 18, 2017 | laravel, php, composer, packagesIn preparation for my upcoming talk at Laracon 2017, which I'm titling "Custom Laravel," I asked a quick question on Twitter ...
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Jun 8, 2017 | javascript, pwa, elsewhereOver on the Tighten blog I wrote up an extensive introduction to Progressive Web Apps. Later in the series I'll actually teac...
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May 5, 2017 | laravel, bussesAfter we talked a bit about enterprise apps on the Laravel Podcast the other day , a few folks in the Laravel community have ...
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Mar 29, 2017 | laravel, envoyer, capistrano, deployIf you've ever worked with Capistrano or Envoyer, you've probably seen a directory structure in your webroot that looks somet...
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Mar 14, 2017 | laravel, yarn, npm, vuejsThe recent versions of Laravel have come with some very minor Vue dependencies out of the box. They're easy to remove, but yo...
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Mar 7, 2017 | written-elsewhere, google, spreadsheets, sdk, phpI had the pleasure of writing a guest post at Twilio's blog this week, focusing on how to read, insert, update, and delete da...
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Feb 8, 2017 | laravel, laravel 5.4, mixLaravel Mix. The same and yet entirely different from Laravel Elixir. If you're not familiar with Laravel Elixir, it's a wra...
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Feb 6, 2017 | expressjs, nodejs, gomix, techresistance, techforwardI'm a frontend and PHP developer and a left-leaning moderate. I don't write Node and I don't get involved in political causes...
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Feb 3, 2017 | laravel 5.4, DuskIf you follow anyone in the Laravel world on Twitter, or if you listen to the Laravel Podcast, you know by now that Laravel D...
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Jan 30, 2017 | laravel, laravel 5.3, artisanBefore Laravel 5.3, defining an Artisan console command—something like php artisan sync:dates—required you to create a ne...
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Jan 18, 2017 | linux, laravel forge, inodes, hosting, dev-opsThe story (skip if you're stressing) The default configuration for many Linux server setups—including that for Laravel For...
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Jan 9, 2017 | git, github, open sourceI just recently joined a new open source project, and there were a few folks on the team who weren't familiar with how to con...
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Dec 21, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3, queuesQueues are one of those tools in Laravel that everyone knows is there, but very few people understand deeply. It's understand...
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Dec 21, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3, vuejs, vueify, authorizationIn Laravel 5.3, it's easier than ever to write and use Vue components out of the box. This means 5.3 has a somewhat more opin...
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Dec 15, 2016 | javascript, html, formsImagine this scenario: You have a group of fields that represent a person. Maybe the form you're building allows you to creat...
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Dec 13, 2016 | laravel, laravelupandrunningI've got great news, folks—both the print and eBook versions of Laravel: Up & Running are now available at Amazon and O...
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Oct 19, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3, laravel notifications, notificationsIn a previous blog post I've covered Laravel's new Mailable feature, which introduces some important changes to how we send m...
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Sep 2, 2016 | laravelupandrunningHey folks! It's been a tumultuous summer, what with Stauffer Child #2 arriving and me finally finishing Laravel: Up and Runn...
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Aug 8, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3We've already covered the new routes directory and the changes that will make to the directory structure. But there's one oth...
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Aug 5, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3, mail, laravel mailablesFor the longest time, sending mail in Laravel has felt clumsy compared to the relatively light APIs of most other Laravel fea...
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Jul 30, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3, laravel passport, oauthAPI authentication can be tricky. OAuth 2 is the reigning ruler of the various standards that you might consider, but it's co...
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Jul 29, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3, laravel scoutSearch tools ElasticSearch and Algolia have gained a lot of popularity in the Laravel community in the last few years as powe...
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Jul 27, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3, laravel scout, laravel passport, mailableOnce the videos are released I'll be able to update this post with more info, since I was on an audio-only stream for the maj...
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Jul 27, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3, routingThe last few versions of Laravel have showed the way routing works shifting around a bit. This is usually a sign that we're f...
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Jul 26, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3Laravel's pagination library is brilliant, because pagination is a common task that is a surprising amount of work to impleme...
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Jul 25, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3In Laravel 5.3, we have a new validation option: image dimensions for image uploads. The validation rule is called dimensions...
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Jul 8, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3, eloquentWhile Laravel has had the ability to cast your data to and from JSON since version 5.0, it was previously just a convenience&...
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Jul 8, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3If you want to filter a Laravel collection to only those records which meet particular criteria, you're most likely going to ...
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Jul 6, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3Time for another new feature in Laravel 5.3! Shortcut global helpers in Laravel As I was writing my book I noticed a patter...
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Jun 29, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3, eloquentMore Laravel 5.3 goodies! This time, it's an update to the Eloquent firstOrCreate method. If you've never used it before, yo...
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Jun 27, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3Let's take a look at another new feature that's coming in Laravel 5.3. What are Blade directives? Laravel's Blade templatin...
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Jun 16, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.3, echo, websocketsLaravel Echo is a tool that makes it easy for you to bring the power of WebSockets to your Laravel applications. It simplifie...
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Jun 2, 2016 | laravelupandrunning, laravelIt turns out that there's a long road between "I have a book contract" and "I know everything there is to know in order to ...
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May 31, 2016 | laravelupandrunning, books, oreillyIn case you missed it, I finished the first draft of my book Laravel: Up and Running this weekend. I'm ecstatic to be done,...
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Apr 26, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.2, sparkpost, emailRecently, Mandrill announced that they'd be sunsetting their transactional email service and instead rolling it in to a secon...
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Apr 1, 2016 | vuejs, vue-routerOne of the things I love most about Vue.js is that it works on the simplest of pages with the simplest of components. You don...
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Mar 17, 2016 | laravel, elixir, vuejs, vueifyI just wrote up a tutorial on the Tighten Blog about using Laravel Elixir to make it easy to add Vueify and use ES2015 on you...
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Mar 11, 2016 | laravelI just wrote up a tutorial on the Tighten Blog about how to create a password-less login system in Laravel. If you've nev...
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Mar 7, 2016 | git, githubRecently someone submitted a great pull request to one of my repositories, but before I could merge it, a commenter gave them...
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Feb 26, 2016 | mysql, laravel 5, laravelIf you remember my post How To Disable MySQL Strict Mode on Laravel Forge (Ubuntu), you'll remember that MySQL 5.7 introduced...
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Feb 11, 2016 | open sourceIf you listen to my podcast or follow me on Twitter, you probably already know that my life has gotten a little bit busier th...
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Feb 9, 2016 | statamic, tightenAfter many weeks of preparation, we finally launched the long-awaited Tighten blog last week. It's been such a pleasure getti...
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Jan 22, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.2, authenticationLet's get back to Laravel 5.2 features, shall we? 5.2 introduced a significant boost to the power of the entire authenticatio...
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Jan 8, 2016 | laravel, laravel 5.2If you're like me, many of the applications you build in Laravel have a similar Saas-type framework: user signup, user login,...
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Jan 5, 2016 | forge, mysqlMySQL has had a strict mode since 5.1, but in 5.7 it became the default. If you've spun up a server recently and all of a sud...
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Dec 22, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5.2, middlewareWhen you are creating a site of any significant size in Laravel, your routes file will often get pretty large. One of the fir...
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Dec 19, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5.2, APIMore and more of my work in Laravel lately has been creating APIs. I have a manual rate limiter class I've been using, but I'...
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Dec 18, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5.2If you've never used it, Laravel's route model binding has been around for a while, but Laravel 5.2 is about to make it even ...
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Dec 17, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5.2It's time to start writing about the new features in Laravel 5.2! You'll notice that many of these features are quicker and e...
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Dec 16, 2015 | vuejs, javascriptThere's a cool new open source project called koel that came out this week. It's a music player (a Spotify clone) that serves...
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Dec 1, 2015 | vuejs, javascript, twitchMost tutorials come from a place of perfection. You already know what you're doing, you write a script, and you teach it as i...
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Nov 6, 2015 | javascript, vuejsOn the latest episode of the Laravel Podcast, I Love the Things You Are Saying, we were talking about VueJS, and Taylor menti...
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Nov 4, 2015 | testing, laravel, dotenvIn Laravel, it's easy to set environment variables that are specific to your testing environment. Just edit your phpunit.xml ...
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Oct 27, 2015 | phpunit, annotationsI was working on a project this weekend that required skipping certain tests in a particular environment (Travis CI). I wrote...
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Oct 10, 2015 | laravel, bladeOne of the greatest aspects of Laravel Blade is that it's incredibly easy to handle view partials and control logic. I find m...
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Sep 30, 2015 | hr, job applicationsI just finished reading over 200 applications for our latest job posting, a Web Developer job at Tighten Co.. We still hire...
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Sep 24, 2015 | phpdotenv, craftTL;DR: save your environment-specific configuration details in a git-ignored .env file. Instructions below. What's wrong wit...
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Sep 17, 2015 | laravel, sparkIf you've been around on the general Laravel-interested Internet over the last month or two, or if you attended Laracon US or...
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Sep 9, 2015 | acl, laravel, laravel 5.1, authorizationThe authentication that Laravel provides out-of-the-box makes it simple to get user signup, login, logout, and password reset...
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Aug 29, 2015 | mysql, innodb, sqlTonight we had a DROP TABLES command run on a live production database. It happened about four hours before I was scheduled t...
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Jul 31, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5.1If you've ever run a SaaS (or put any web site with comments or signups on the Internet for any length of time), you've exper...
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Jul 16, 2015 | laravel, socialite, github, oauthLaravel's Socialite package makes it simple to authenticate your users to Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, GitHub and Bi...
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Jul 7, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5.1Whoops! I missed a feature from my Laravel 5.1 review! It's now super easy to exclude specific routes from your CSRF middlew...
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Jun 26, 2015 | sublime text, phpA lot of folks in the PHP community have been checking out PHPStorm lately, including myself and most of the developers I wor...
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Jun 19, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5.1, testing, integration testingContinuing in our series about testing and integration testing in Laravel 5.1, let's take a look at some new traits that are ...
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Jun 16, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5.1, testing, integration testingWhen you're testing your code, you often want to create a fake entry for one or more of your models. You may have tried this ...
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Jun 15, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5.1, testing, integration testingWhether or not you've written integration tests in Laravel before, you'll be pleased to hear that integration testing is more...
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Jun 11, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5.1, artisan, consoleYesterday we talked about the new signature syntax for Artisan commands. Today, let's take a look at the options Artisan com...
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Jun 10, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5.1, artisanIf you're not familiar with Artisan commands, they're command-line functions that you can run to interact with your Laravel a...
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Jun 9, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5.1If you remember my blog post about Filter-style middleware in Laravel 5.0, middleware got a big bump in its importance and pr...
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Jun 8, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5.1Laravel 5.1 introduces "Service Injection", the ability to "inject" an object into Blade templates. This means you can now re...
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Jun 6, 2015 | sendyIn my last post I showed you how to download Sendy and install it on a Laravel Forge server. In this post, we'll be creating...
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Jun 2, 2015 | sendy, email, laravel, forgeLast week I decided to finally bite the bullet and take the advice I've been giving so many others: I committed to creating a...
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May 20, 2015 | laravel, composerI'm often writing here about features in the latest version of Laravel. You might be wondering, how do I install the latest v...
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May 15, 2015 | forge, laravel, https, sslImportant Note: Many SSL certificate providers now generate certs which work on both the www. and the non-www. version of ...
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May 1, 2015 | laravel, symfony, CORS, Angular, APIIf you couldn't tell from the title, this is going to be a very technical post that I hope saves someone from some of the pai...
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Apr 28, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5.1Taylor's put up a new Laracast video about using the new Broadcasting tool in Laravel 5.1, which is a simple contract that al...
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Apr 15, 2015 | lumen, laravelI gave an example yesterday about how to use Lumen, but I figured a few more examples would be fun. If you spin up a new app...
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Apr 14, 2015 | laravel, lumenLumen is a new project from Laravel creator Taylor Otwell. It's a "micro-framework", meaning it's a smaller, faster, leaner v...
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Apr 8, 2015I was talking over a particular architecture issue with Taylor Otwell and happened to show him some unrelated code as an exam...
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Mar 23, 2015 | forge, laravel, optimization, gzipI recently got an email from Google saying Karani has a few pages that are loading too slowly on mobile, and therefore will b...
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Mar 16, 2015 | envoyer, laravelEnvoyer is a new product from Taylor Otwell of Laravel. Check out his intro videos at Laracasts, and interview at Laravel New...
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Mar 9, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5Since Laravel 5 flattened a lot of the environment-specific structures, much of the configuration that was once stored in dif...
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Mar 4, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5, bootstrap, bowerLaravel 5 comes with some base templates, which import Bootstrap.js and jQuery, and a base stylesheet which imports LESS Boot...
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Mar 2, 2015 | laravel, csvLeague/CSV is a wonderfully simple wrapper around PHP's native CSV support, and it's simple to dump your Laravel Eloquent col...
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Feb 19, 2015 | screencast, laravelI didn't even think to put this up on the blog, but I recorded a video of me developing Gistlog.co from nothing to live proto...
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Feb 14, 2015 | laravel 5, laravel, eloquentI had completely forgotten to finish my Laravel 5.0 blog posts, but I saw a great quick introduction to attribute casting at ...
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Feb 11, 2015 | namespaces, phpIn A Brief Introduction to PHP Namespacing, I gave a quick introduction both to namespaces and to how PHP handles them. But ...
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Feb 7, 2015 | php, namespacesA bit of history In PHP prior to 5.3 (2009), any class you define lived at the same global level as other classes. Class Us...
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Feb 1, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5When you wanted to customize your error pages—for example, showing a particular cat GIF when your users hit a 404—you’d...
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Jan 26, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5Sometimes it can seem like a lot of work to create an event, create its handler, and bind the two. Create a command, create i...
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Jan 25, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5It's seldom that we need to extend Laravel's core, and even when we do, it's most likely we're going to extend specific compo...
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Jan 21, 2015 | laravel, events, 5.0, laravel 5If you haven't read it yet, go read the Laravel 5.0 - Commands & Handlers post. It'll give much-needed background for ...
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Jan 19, 2015 | laravel 5, laravelYou might be missing the "prettier" Whoops error handler from Laravel 4. If so, here's how to bring it back. Update: If y...
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Jan 16, 2015 | laravel, laravel 5It's very simple to get started in a new Laravel 5 app: composer create-project laravel/laravel my-project-name-here dev-deve...
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Jan 6, 2015 | sculpin, static site generatorsOne of the most difficult things about using static site generators has been handling scheduling posts ahead of time. I have ...
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Jan 2, 2015 | laravel, 5.0, commands, laravel 5As you’ve probably read me mention on Twitter, I’ve paused on blogging new Laravel 5 features to try to give Taylor some ...
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Dec 29, 2014 | laravel, forge, craftWhether you’re familiar with Forge but not Craft, or familiar with Craft but not Forge, it’s worth checking out how simpl...
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Dec 24, 2014 | forge, sculpin, fiveMinuteGeekShowI recently switched The Five Minute Geek Show's web site over to Sculpin for its content management. If you're not familiar, ...
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Dec 19, 2014It seems I've been doing a lot of talking around town lately, so I wanted to do a quick roundup. Bootstrapped On October 20...
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Nov 20, 2014 | laravel, 5.0, laravel 5Eric Barnes has a longer write up on this, so I'll just keep it short: Laravel 5.0 is introducing a pretty incredible cron-s...
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Nov 17, 2014 | laravel, homestead, vagrantWhen Laravel Homestead first came out, it was a Github repository that included a base Homestead.yaml by default. There was n...
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Nov 12, 2014 | phpEvery time someone mentions Confomo, I’m inspired to work on it for a day or two. And then I let it slide. And then I forge...
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Oct 16, 2014 | laravel, 5.0, laravel 5If you've followed my blog for a while, you've probably seen me struggle with Laravel's environment detection--especially reg...
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Oct 10, 2014 | laravel, 5.0, laravel 5Note: Event Annotations were eventually removed from core, and separated to a package maintained by the Laravel Community....
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Oct 10, 2014 | laravel, 5.0, laravel 5If you've been following along with my previous blog posts about Laravel 5.0, you may have noticed that route filters were fi...
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Oct 9, 2014 | laravel, 5.0, laravel 5Note: Route Annotations were eventually removed from core, and separated to a package maintained by the Laravel Community....
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Sep 30, 2014 | sassYesterday Trey Piepmeier wrote a quick blog post showing that you could import a Sass import within a selector. // main.scss...
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Sep 30, 2014 | laravel, 5.0, laravel 5Laravel 5.0 introduces the ability for the Container to resolve depencies injected into any methods that are resolved by the ...
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Sep 28, 2014 | laravel, laravel 5, 5.0In Laravel 5, you can now use the same Filesystem class which previously simplified interactions with the local filesystem, a...
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Sep 25, 2014 | laravel, forge, recipesYesterday I updated all of my packages on a Forge server (sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade) and I ended up...
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Sep 24, 2014 | laravel, forgeWhat is it? A dangerous vulnerability in bash, a shell that's enabled by default on pretty much every *nix ystem ever. Learn...
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Sep 20, 2014 | laravel, 5.0, laravel 5Performance optimization within our PHP code isn't always something at the forefront of our minds, but our backend code--espe...
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Sep 17, 2014 | laravel, forgeForge is a great tool for administering your servers. But what if you have a whole team that you want to grant access to one ...
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Sep 12, 2014 | laravel, laravel 5, 5.0One of the big reasons Laravel 4.3 got moved to 5.0 is because the directory structure can seem like a big shift in thinking....
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Sep 10, 2014 | laravel, 5.0, laravel 5Laravel 5.0 Laravel 5.0 is coming out in November, and there are a lot of features that have folks excited. The New Director...
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Sep 10, 2014 | laravel, 5.0, laravel 5In creating FormRequest, Taylor separated out both an interface (ValidatesWhenResolved) and a trait (ValidatesWhenResolvedTra...
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Sep 3, 2014 | laracon, laracon-euI recently returned from a trip that brought lot of firsts. First time in Amsterdam. First time in The Netherlands, actually...
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Aug 29, 2014 | laravelThe slide deck is now available for my Laracon Eu talk: [https://speakerdeck.com/mattstauffer/sharing-laravel-bringing-larav...
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Aug 25, 2014 | laravel, illuminateAs a part of preparing for my talk at Laracon Eu, "Sharing Laravel's Best Assets With Other Projects," I planned to teach abo...
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Aug 7, 2014 | git, rebase, squashSquashing git commits (using git's interactive rebase mode) is a great way to trim up mistakes, typos, and overzealously gran...
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Jul 29, 2014 | css, bem, oocss, smacss, frontend, sassEric Barnes, the author of Laravel News, mentioned in his newsletter this week that he's been looking for a better way to org...
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Jul 28, 2014 | craft, plugin, rsyncKeeping multiple Craft sites in sync is one of the few painful aspects of developing with Craft. When I'm working on my blog,...
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Jul 25, 2014 | laravel, forge, aws, hostingNote: Forge now supports AWS out of the box, but much of this tutorial still applies for other non-native VPSes. Larave...
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Jul 23, 2014 | css, screencast, frontendI recorded a brief video of me converting a flattened PDF mockup of a web site into a HTML/CSS landing page in about 45 minut...
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Jul 17, 2014 | ionic, screencast, cordovaI spoke at the Frontend Awesome meetup in Gainesville FL and gave a brief demo of the Ionic Framework. ...
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Jul 9, 2014 | forge, laravel, recipesForge comes with a lot of built-in functionality, but what if you want to make some changes on your own? You can always SSH i...
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Jun 29, 2014 | laravel, heroku, nginxSo by this point you've got your app and running, and deployed to Heroku. You probably even have a ClearDB MySQL database con...
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Jun 23, 2014 | laravel, forge, subdomainsIf you've ever used a site like Harvest or Slack, you've experienced group-specific subdomains. If your company is named Tigh...
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Jun 17, 2014 | forge, htpasswd, nginxNow that the initial hubbub of trying out new Laravel apps in Forge is over, we've started to put more non-Laravel sites on F...
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Jun 11, 2014 | foreman, development, procfileI'm currently working on an app that I'm developing with the Ionic framework. As is common lately, I have multiple processes ...
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Jun 2, 2014 | forge, laravel, sslChristopher Pitt has written a fantastic article about adding an SSL cert in Forge, so I'm not going to duplicate that work...
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Jun 2, 2014 | laravel, forge, cronPHP by its nature acts in response to a request. A visitor comes to your URL, and your app spins up, processes the request, p...
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May 28, 2014 | homebrew, cask, osx, npm, node, rvmIn the last post, we synced down our core configuration files and customized our terminal. Next we'll set up global package m...
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May 28, 2014 | development, dotfiles, osx, sshSo far we've gotten our core files synced, our terminal beautiful and customized, and our global package managers installed a...
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May 27, 2014 | development, zsh, osx, ohmyzshBetween onboarding new developers, wiping old computers and starting from scratch, and buying new computers, I've done a fres...
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May 23, 2014 | laravel, forge, queue, beanstalkdLaravel has a suite of features offering the ability to push data and/or functionality onto queues, and to assign "workers" t...
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May 19, 2014 | laravel, forge, environmentNOTE: This post has been completely re-written because of some changes in Forge's environment variable handling. At any give...
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May 16, 2014 | forge, laravel, papertrailIf you're up and running with a Laravel Forge server, you can monitor your app's logs using the traditional Laravel log funct...
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May 15, 2014 | laravel, forgeIf you're here, you've likely already heard about Taylor Otwell's announcement at Laracon about Homestead and Forge. For an ...
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May 2, 2014 | php, heroku, laravel, postgresqlIn the last two posts we got Laravel up and running on Heroku, and then connected it with MySQL. But Heroku natively prefers ...
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May 1, 2014 | php, laravel, mysql, herokuMy last post was about getting Laravel up and running on Heroku. But, of course, that's not enough; how many Laravel apps don...
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Apr 30, 2014 | php, laravel, herokuHeroku has had PHP support for a while, but it's been a definitively second-class citizen. Yesterday Heroku announced a huge...
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Dec 6, 2013What are Markdown and Marked? See the footer. TL;DR: I just wrote an app called Markedstyle, a centralized repository for cu...
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Oct 16, 2013 | sqlToday I got a question from a Karani user about our backups. We maintain backups on-server, and our host maintains backups of...
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Sep 3, 2013 | phpToday I discovered something about PHP's ternary operator that gave my DRY soul a little bit of joy. The PHP ternary operato...
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Jul 31, 2013 | development, php, laravel, codeigniterPHP is one of the most maligned languages today--even more hated than JavaScript, which says a lot. The problem is that ther...
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Apr 14, 2013 | startups, entrepreneurshipBefore LessConf 2013, I didn't see myself an entrepreneur, let alone a "startup founder." I knew what an entrepreneur and a...