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Published on: 19th Jan, 2024

The podcasts I listen to as a PHP developer

podcasts

The following are the podcasts I listen to. In no particular order. (That have episodes re...

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Published on: 18th Jan, 2024

Creating Flexible Layouts in Laravel with Yields, Includes, and Slots

Laravel yield include slots layouts

Yields In Laravel, the @yield directive is used in blade templates to define a section tha...

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Published on: 17th Jan, 2024

Enhancing Laravel Applications with Traits: A Step-by-Step Guide

code-reuse Laravel traits

What are traits? Traits are a mechanism for code reuse. Traits allow you to create methods...

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Published on: 11th Jan, 2024

Laravel ApiResouce name nested route placeholder

Laravel routes nested placeholders

When using an ApiResource that has more than one placeholder it may seem tricky to figure...

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Published on: 10th Nov, 2023

My process for writing Laravel packages

Laravel packages

Introduction I was asked recently how I started when writing new Laravel packages. In this...

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Published on: 10th Oct, 2023

Running HTTP requests in PhpStorm

2Articles1Week http Requests PhpStorm APIs

Running API tests you may be tempted to open PostMan or another API client, did you know,...

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Published on: 5th Oct, 2023

Extracting a time into select menus with PHP

2Articles1Week Explode list

When storing time in a database, often I'll store this in a time format such as 14:25:00 W...

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Published on: 4th Oct, 2023

Vue show and hide form elements

2Articles1Week Vue.js forms condition-rendering Conditional statement

Introduction When working with forms, it is common to display or conceal various fields ba...

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Published on: 29th Sep, 2023

My PhpStorm Setup

PhpStorm setup 2Articles1Week

Theme I use the New UI which is located at Appearance & Behaviour -> New UI Once turned o...

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Published on: 28th Sep, 2023

VIM shortcuts

vim vimrc cheatsheet 2Articles1Week

VIM Modes There are multiple modes in vim, normal mode is loaded by default. Command mode....

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Published on: 20th Mar, 2023

Laravel Extract Language to lang files

Laravel package languages translation

If you've already used JSON lang in your views, here's a handy package to extract all lang...

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Published on: 18th Mar, 2023

I'm writing a new Laravel book on testing called Laravel Testing Cookbook

Laravel Testing pestphp PHPUnit books

Laravel Testing Cookbook will cover common use cases. Sign up for the waitlist to be notif...

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Published on: 30th Jan, 2023

Adding pinned posts with Laravel

Laravel posts pinned

Let's say you have a blog and have posts ordered by their published date. Later you decide...

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Published on: 22nd Jan, 2023

Laravel Livewire Resources

Laravel-livewire tools packages components

Laravel Livewire makes building interactive web applications easy! Laravel Livewire has am...

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Published on: 21st Jan, 2023

Upload images in Ckeditor 5 with Laravel

CKEditor Laravel

Base64 upload adapter Simple image adapter CKeditor 5 out-of-the-box does not come with...

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Published on: 6th Jan, 2023

Dev Retro 2022 - My reflections

#DevRetro2022

In this post, I want to reflect on my journey as a developer over the last year. I publish...

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Published on: 6th Jan, 2023

Setup Jira for managing scrum Sprints from scratch

Sprints JIRA project management

This post is very opionated, this covers how I like to work with sprints, you may work ver...

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Published on: 1st Jan, 2023

PHP Generate a UL menu from an array

UL array menu Recursive function PHP

Take an array and build a menu UL list from it. The array should support top-level as well...

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