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Published on: 17th Dec, 2016

Laravel 5.3 send errors to email

Errors in Laravel are logged to files. That’s useful for monitoring when things go wrong....

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Published on: 15th Dec, 2016

Laravel Auto redirect if not logged in

Some application are login only meaning there is no ‘front page’ so when landing on the ho...

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Published on: 15th Dec, 2016

laravel 5.3 disable registration

Laravel comes with built in authentication to enable it first create the users table by ru...

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Published on: 15th Dec, 2016

Laravel 5.3 install whoops

In older versions of Laravel error’s where displayed using the Whoops. In recent versions...

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Published on: 11th Dec, 2016

Run Python 3 as default when Python 2 is installed on a Mac

I’ve started to learn Python version 3 I had Python 2 already installed so when typing ‘py...

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Published on: 7th Dec, 2016

Stop the Mac's play button auto opening iTunes by default

The Play/Pause key on mac’s default behavior is to open iTunes, which for me is never what...

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Published on: 23rd Nov, 2016

Using MPDF with Nova Framework

MPDF is my go to library when I need to generate a PDF using PHP. It’s perfect for taking...

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Published on: 22nd Nov, 2016

.blog the new domain for daveismyname

Today I’ve finally secured the domain extensions I’ve been after since it was first announ...

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Published on: 21st Nov, 2016

Using Mamp database with Nova Framework

It can be really useful when working locally to use Mamp’s database it’s very easy to setu...

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Published on: 21st Nov, 2016

Admin Panel with AdminLTE

Nova Framework comes with a fully working admin panel for building applications quickly. T...

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Published on: 21st Nov, 2016

Nova Framework 3.75.0 released

The system directory is the core of Nova Framework as such it should not be touched, to th...

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Published on: 6th Nov, 2016

Custom Pagination for Nova Framework

Pagination that comes out the box with Nova Framework is great and very easy to use, for i...

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Published on: 5th Nov, 2016

Catch emails when in development using Mailtrap fake smtp testing server

Laravel Emails Testing smtp

During the development phase it’s important to test sending emails without sending to end...

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Published on: 3rd Nov, 2016

Worldwide mobile usage takes over desktop usage for the first time!

Stat counter have accounted Mobile and tablet internet usage exceeds desktop for first tim...

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Published on: 31st Oct, 2016

Front-End Tooling Survey 2016

Today I received an email inviting me to take part in a front end tooling survey, which I...

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Published on: 31st Oct, 2016

Wakatime - record time spent coding automatically

For quite sometime I’ve been using wakatime, a tool that integrates with lots of IDE’s and...

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Published on: 28th Oct, 2016

Post to Slack using the incoming webhooks API

Slack is a great tool for teams I use it to communicate with the rest of my team, recently...

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Published on: 14th Oct, 2016

Install PHP INTL on Mac using HomeBrew

Mac’s come with PHP installed but they don’t come with the PHP extension INTL installed. T...

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