PHP
Use a message envelope
The use of a message envelope has many benefits for the design of your application. It allows you to carry system information, nicely separated from domain information, in a generic way. Read more
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★ Code that breathes
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Have you ever needed to maintain a project that wasn't yours? A project that, when you first opened it, gave you chills down your spine? Even without reading the code in detail, you could already tell it was a mess.
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CSS as the backend: introducing Cascading Server Sheets!
Obviously you shouldn’t to this, but it’s kinda cool that it works. Read more
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Testing the homepage of a Laravel app using Pest
Getting started with testing is not that hard. Here’s a free video taken from the Testing Laravel course that will show you how you can make sure you homepage works. Read more
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Running PHPUnit tests in parallel using GitHub actions
One of our projects has a really large test suite that isn’t optimised to run with Laravel’s parallel testing. It was starting to take more than 15 minutes to have the whole test suite run Read more…
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Use "dd()", "dump()", and "ray()" in any PHP file on your system
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I'm proud to announce that Steve Bauman and our team at Spatie have released a new tool called spatie/globay-ray. When installed, you'll be able to use dd, dump and ray functions in any PHP file on your system.
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Laravel Origins: The Documentary
This is an amazing documentary that shows the origins of Laravel, and it’s 12 year journey. I’m honoured being a part of this.
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Get Geolocation from IP Address Using PHP
Geolocation gives data about the geographic area of a client. In particular, the IP address is utilized by the geolocation administration to decide the area. To follow the guest’s area, the principal thing required is Read more…
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Composable seeders in Laravel with callOnce
Laravel 9 is fresh out the door, and it contains a small contribution of mine: a new callOnce method for database seeders. Read more