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GitHub Responds to open letter with an update to issues
Over 1700 disgruntled developers got together last month and created an open letter to GitHub mentioning problems they have with the service, specifically around issues. Today GitHub responded to one...
View ArticleHow the Laravel Router is made
Matthew Machuga has started a new video series on Tuts+ and the first video is out on how the Laravel Router works: In this lesson, we’ll explore the intricacies of Laravel Router. We’ll talk about the...
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Laravel Homestead adds MariaDB Support
On Tuesday, Laravel Homestead announced support for MariaDB with the v3.0.2 release. MariaDB is an open source alternative to MySQL and created by the original MySQL developers. It is designed to be a...
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End-to-end transaction tracing Follow the performance of a critical transaction across your entire service-oriented application environment. Code-level visibility Drill down to see the performance...
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Laravel News Podcast #10
Episode 10 of the Laravel News podcast is now out and we discuss CloudflareSSL and Forge, Code fonts, and more. You can listen below, subscribe in iTunes, or grab the RSS from the podcast hosting site....
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A PHP Terminal GameBoy Emulator
PHP GameBoy: Some people will ask me: “Why you did that?” Well, a friend asked me “What PHP can do?”. I thought about that awhile and the idea came up. With PHP7’s performance improvement now it’s...
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Laravel Podcast #42 – Shots Fired
The latest episode of the Laravel Podcast is out. In this episode, the crew is joined by Adam Wathan to discuss ActiveRecord and the Eloquent ORM. Lots of talk around ActiveRecord vs DataMapper and...
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Mandrill Forcefully Requiring Mailchimp Accounts
Yesterday Mandrill started emailing customers letting them know of an important policy change. Now all accounts will require a Mailchimp account, and you have less than 60 days to either move away or...
View ArticleLaravel Package for failed Queue Notifications
The company Spatie released a new open source package to handle queue job failure notifications. When one fails it will send you an email with the details and as a bonus, it has Slack integration. It...
View ArticleFull Stack Radio with Jason McCreary from Laravel Shift
The latest episode of Full Stack Radio features Jason McCreary, who created the Laravel Shift project. The episode is 32 minutes long and gives the back story on the project and more about Jason.
View ArticleMySQL customizations in Laravel 5.2
Matt Stauffer has a new tutorial out showing how you can set up MySQL in Laravel 5.2 for “strict” mode. With this new feature, Laravel now has the ability to do three things: Disable “strict” mode,...
View ArticlePerformance: SMTP driver vs. API drivers →
Jens Segers recently create a pull request to Laravel to make creating custom mail drivers easier. During the process he decided to do simple performance test and see how much a difference it is...
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Carbon constants →
Povilas Korop at Laravel Daily has a new tip reminding us about Carbon constants. I’ve used the ones for days before but I wasn’t aware it had them for seconds through centuries. Carbon really is a...
View ArticleDocker for Laravel Homestead
For all the Docker fans, Derek Bourgeois has created laraedit-docker, a Dockerized version of Laravel Homestead. Installing the LaraEdit container is as simple as running a docker pull with...
View ArticleComposer hits Beta 1 →
Jordi Boggiano, the lead developer, of the Composer project just announced beta one has been tagged and released: A small step for mankind, but a big step for me: I just tagged Composer beta1!...
View ArticleLaravel Homestead v0.4.2 is released
A new version of Homestead is now released and it includes updates to the Personal Package Archives (PPA) and the inclusion of Mcrypt which many PHP apps require. You can get the latest version by...
View ArticleBuilding your first Laravel Application
I just wrote a tutorial on Building your first Laravel application over on dotdev.co. The goal of this tutorial is to help you take those first in building a new application and it covers unit testing,...
View ArticleUsing the ::class keyword in Laravel
Christoph Rumpel has a new tutorial on using the ::class keyword in PHP and Laravel. Since PHP 5.5 the class keyword is used for class name resolution. This means it returns the fully qualified...
View ArticleSQL Server coming to Linux
Today, Microsoft announced that SQL Server is coming to Linux. “This is an enormously important decision for Microsoft, allowing it to offer its well-known and trusted database to an expanded set of...
View ArticleCherry Pick Specific Git Commits
Matt Stauffer has a new tutorial on how to merge specific commits from a pull request. Tonight I was looking at pull requests to all of my open source repositories, and there was a pull request that...
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