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Quickly Dumping Laravel Queries
When you are building an application and utilizing Eloquent it’s very easy to hit the N+1 problem. This is where you select a model and then later use lazy loading to fetch child records. As an...
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Overriding Laravel Elixir Configs
Laravel Elixir is fantastic for your Laravel projects and it comes with defaults that “just work” within a Laravel application. It works so well that I like to use it for managing all my asset...
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Review of Test-Driven Laravel
I’ve been programming for close to a decade, and I’m constantly trying to find ways so to improve my skill set to be able to keep up with the ever-changing landscape of technology. The one area I’ve...
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24 Pull Requests
24 Pull Requests is a project to promote open source collaboration during the month of December. The idea is to “Send 24 pull requests between December 1st and December 24th,” and it encourages...
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Laravel v5.3.25 is released
Laravel has released v5.3.25 which includes two new validation rules, the ability to set the file permissions in the Filesystem, and a fluent builder for SlackMessageAttachmentField. New validation...
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Laravel Blade Components and Slots are coming to 5.4
A new feature coming to Laravel 5.4 is the ability for you to add Components and Slots to Blade templates. This feature was inspired by Vue.js and allows you to simplify building HTML elements into...
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Export from Sequel Pro to a Laravel Migration
The two primary ways developers create their database scheme is either by building migrations first or building out their database structure in a tool like Sequel Pro first, then once they are happy,...
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Laravel Spark Open Sources its Integration Tests
Spark is a commercial Laravel package that provides scaffolding for quickly setting up a SaaS app and more. Spark was officially released back in April, and they have just made available a repository...
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Export from MySQL Workbench to a Laravel Migration
MySQL Workbench is a cross-platform GPL app that allows you to fully design and document your databases through the app. Brandon Eckenrode, created a plugin that allows you to export a MySQL Workbench...
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Can Frameworks lead to tribalism among developers
In the modern world of web development, it is common practice to make use of frameworks for building large scale applications instead of starting from scratch. This approach allows us developers, to...
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Does caffeine actually boost performance?
Raise your hand if you get the recommended eight hours of sleep every night. For most of us, we’re feeling pretty fortunate if we get around six. Since we’re constantly operating on not-enough, many...
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Laravel 5.4: JSON Based Language Files
One of the most wanted requests we receive at Laravel is introducing better support for multilingual web applications, there are already packages out there that add some nice functionality to Laravel...
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Getting started with Watson Personality Insights
One of the most important things as a business owner is being able to understand your customers’ needs and wants; such that you are able to offer them a personalized experience. This works great if...
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New Book: Laravel Up and Running
Matt Stauffer who has been blogging about Laravel since the 5.0 release, the host of the Laravel Podcast, and partner and technical director at Tighten.co has been working on a new Laravel book,...
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Laracasts 40% off sale!
Laracasts has just announced its annual sale, and you can save 40% off a subscription today through midnight Friday EST. This is a great time to pick up a subscription if you do not have one and it’s...
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React for Beginners and ES6 for everyone is 50% off!
Wes Bos has two wildly successful training courses that are 50% off until Monday. This is an excellent time to pick up these courses if you’d wanted to explore React and ES6. With over 14,000 combined...
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Store your translations in the database with Laravel translation loader package
Laravel has built-in support for localization using arrays stored in language files and in 5.4 they are adding the ability for JSON based language files. Some applications are better suited to have...
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Laravel Spark 50% Sale!
Laravel Spark is running a 50% off sale through the weekend on both single site licenses and unlimited site licenses. Normally the price is $99 for the single license and $299 for unlimited and with...
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Building a culture of trust: Why sharing is good for you and your career
I speak about empathy on teams and why vulnerability is a great asset in your professional life. Sharing ideas falls right in line with my own ideology, but I also understand why people are so...
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Quickly Dumping Laravel Queries
When you are building an application and utilizing Eloquent it’s very easy to hit the N+1 problem. This is where you select a model and then later use lazy loading to fetch child records. As an...
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