Bugsnag adds support for seeing what happens before an exception is thrown
Bugsnag has just announced that they’ve added more diagnostic information when using the service with Laravel. With this feature, you now see a Breadcrumbs tab in your error report that shows any log...
View ArticleHacktoberfest 2016
Hacktoberfest, the month-long festival of code, is back again this year. The event is hosted in partnership between GitHub and DigitalOcean, and the rules are simple. If you make four pull requests...
View ArticleLaravel Forge adds a new development blog
Laravel Forge has seen a lot of new improvements over the past few weeks and today they announced a new developer blog so it’s easier to keep up with all the new features. With the launch, it includes...
View ArticleVue.js V2 is now released
Vue.js has announced v2 is now released and available. Version two has been in development since April and features significant improvements over the first version. Vue V2 features better performance,...
View Article85 High-Quality Ink Textures for only $5! (sponsor)
Digital doesn’t always have to mean futuristic or hi-tech in terms of style. With this beautiful set of 85 Ink Textures, you’ll get high-quality grunge, noise, grain and halftone textures to add a...
View ArticleInstalling Bourbon and Neat with Laravel Elixir
Laravel Elixir is a wrapper that simplifies working with Gulp, it makes compiling, concating, minifying and versioning your JavaScript and CSS files very fluent and easy. Because many projects using...
View ArticlePodcast: Computer Vision Syndrome, Hacktoberfest, Laravel Valet
In this epsiode, we talk about Computer Vision Syndrome, making the front page of Hacker News, troubleshooting Valet, and more. Show Links Hacktoberfest Computer vision Syndrome Cloudflare...
View ArticleLaravel 5.3.16 is now released
Laravel 5.3.16 is now tagged and available for everyone. This release features changes to the JavaScript scaffolding to now work with Vue.js v2. Another feature is Laravel Passport has been updated to...
View ArticleAnnouncing the new Laravel Links
Today I’m happy to announce that the Laravel Links section of the site is now converted to the new site. The links section allows anyone to register and submit a link to their blog posts, packages, or...
View ArticleLeanpub announces a new pricing model
Leanpub is home to many books on Laravel including Easy E-Commerce that I co-authored. Today they have announced a pricing change for all publishers using the service. Creating a book with Leanpub is...
View ArticleTaylor Otwell Laracon EU 2016 Keynote
Laracon EU has just started releasing videos from this year’s conference and the first one is out feature Taylor’s keynote talk on the State of Laravel. Source: YouTube
View ArticleIn Laravel 5.3.17, Model Factories now includes states
New in Laravel 5.3.17 is an improvement to Model Factories that you allows to define different “states” for a factory. For example pretend you have a simple faker for creating a User:...
View Article20 Talk Videos from Laracon EU are now live and available
Laracon EU held back in August has now released all the talk videos in a YouTube playlist. It features the following speakers and talks: Taylor Otwell – Keynote Tihomir Opacic – The State Of Content...
View ArticleUsing str_limit to restrict a string to a certain length
When building for the web, there are many different ways to limit a string. For example, you could use CSS, JavaScript, or do it through PHP. Limiting strings is such a common use case that Laravel...
View ArticleImprovements to the Laravel unique and exists validation rules
Validating requests in Laravel is simple with its ValidatesRequests trait that is automatically included through the BaseController. It’s powerful and provides a lot of useful rules for common use...
View ArticleYarn is Facebook’s new lightning fast package manager for JavaScript
Facebook today announced a new package manager named Yarn that aims to be a fast, reliable, and secure alternative npm client. Yarn is a new package manager that replaces the existing workflow for the...
View ArticleLaravel Blade SVG Directive
Using SVG’s in your design is all the rage and for good reason. They can be resized to any size without becoming pixelated, you can reference them by id, modify them through CSS or JavaScript. One of...
View ArticleLaraconf Brazil 2016
The Laravel community in South America put together their first unofficial one day Laravel conference in Brazil on October 8th. “What I most enjoyed was the ability to network with every attendee,”...
View ArticleBitbucket announces a coming price increase
This week Bitbucket has announced a new price increase that will be coming soon. The current pricing model is $1 per user and purchased in packs of 10, 25, 50, and 100. So if you had eight users on...
View ArticleInsomnia – A simple, beautiful, and free REST API client
Working with API’s is a common task we all face and one tool that makes this is easier is the Insomnia REST client created by Gregory Schier. It’s cross-platform compatible and works on Mac, Windows,...
View Article