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Laravel Spark 4.0 is Released
Laravel Spark v4.0 is now released and available to all license holders. Spark 4.0 is a free upgrade and provides compatibility with Laravel 5.4. Also, Spark 4.0 applications are configured to use...
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Keeping the Creativity in Code
A January 2016 New York Times op-ed piece by Wharton professor, Adam Grant, discusses why the most successful adults are generally not child prodigies. He reasons the vast majority of highly and...
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PHPUnit 6.0.0 Is Released
PHPUnit has released version 6.0, and it now drops support for PHP 5.6, which is no longer actively maintained. Some of the new features in this release include: Added a new getExpectedExceptionCode()...
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Announcing Laracon Online
Laracon Online is a brand new one-day conference that will be held entirely online. This means no matter where you live you can now take part in Laracon. No hotels, no airfare, just signup and spend...
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Homestead Now Includes Mailhog
Editor’s Note: An issue was discovered in the box just before release and this version isn’t out just yet. We will update this post and republish once that is squashed and a new release is made....
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13 Laravel Admin Panel Generators
Developers are lazy. No, I’m not kidding—they work hard to create systems that help them avoid more work in the future. Especially, repetitive work. And there are quite extreme examples now—we don’t...
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Laravel Blade @prepend Directive
In version 5.4 Laravel added a new components and slots feature that simplifies building HTML elements into reusable areas. As an example of how this features works pretend you have a layout.blade.php...
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Laravel Collection “tap” Method
Laravel 5.4.10 introduces a new tap method on collections which allow you to “tap” into the collection at a specific point and do something with the results while not affecting the main collection....
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Review: Refactoring to Collections
“Never write another loop again.” A strong promo sentence used by Adam Wathan to market his Refactoring to Collections book, but does it hold the promise? Well, together we will explore how close that...
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Testing Partial JSON Responses with Laravel
Laravel provides many useful helpers for testing your application and it has great support for testing HTTP testing through its fluent API. A feature added to v5.4.10 is a new assertJsonFragment...
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Request Object Changes in Lumen 5.4
A couple of weeks ago the Lumen core team managed to fix an issue with the request object when being called in unit tests, before the fix the request appears to be empty and all input data were not...
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Laravel Collections “when” Method
Starting at v5.4.12, Laravel Collections now includes a when method that allows you to perform conditional actions on the items without breaking the chain. Like all the other Laravel Collection...
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Handling Conflict: How to Talk to Your Coworker
Turning Conflict to Conversation Conflict is a natural part of any relationship, especially those people we spend the majority of our time with. It’s no surprise, then, we might occasionally find...
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Stripe Elements – A set of pre-built components to easily accept credit cards
Stripe Elements is a recently launched set of pre-built UI components that allows you to securely collect credit card details. This is designed to make taking credit cards easier than ever. Here is a...
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Easily Create Stripe Tokens and Cards For Testing
When you are building a payment flow with Stripe there are a lot of different flows for you to test. These include successful charges and a plethora of failed options. Such as invalid CVC, invalid...
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Laravel 5.5 Will Be The Next LTS Release
Version 5.1 was Laravel’s first LTS release and its two-year window of bug fixes are coming to an end this year. There have been a few people questioning if another LTS would be released and version...
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Laracon Online – Last Day For Early Bird Tickets
Today is the last chance for you to join over 3,000 developers and get an early bird ticket to Laracon Online for just $10. Each ticket purchase includes access to the live event video, conference...
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Tips For Building Your First Laravel Package
Laravel is a powerful and modern framework. It has tons of different features, which make our work faster and easier. But you can’t push everything into the single box. At one time or another, we’ve...
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Cloudflare has been leaking custom HTTPS sessions
Cloudflare has reported that under certain circumstances their edge servers were running past the end of a buffer and returning memory that contained private information such as HTTP cookies,...
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No Really, It’s Okay to Be Unavailable
We live in an uber-connected world. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve complained about shoddy Wi-Fi or the fact that Twitter is down. As much as I love the connection provided by the web and...
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