A guide to a collaborative debugging workflow with Bugsnag
It’s essential to have good error monitoring in place in order to understand application stability, and be aware when bugs impact your users. But monitoring your application for errors is only one...
View ArticleHomestead V5.0.0 Is Released
A new version of Homestead has been released: version 5.0.1. The base box has been upgraded to version 2.0.0. Holy version numbers Batman! In keeping with Semantic Versioning for both Homestead and...
View ArticleLaravel Forge API
Laravel Forge just announced it’s first official API that allows you to create and interact with your servers and sites. This was a highly requested feature and the API includes support for all the...
View ArticleLaravel Include When Directive
A new feature in Laravel Blade is an includeWhen directive. This allows you to simplify a typical if statement into a single line. “I think it’s a cool feature as it tidies up so much boilerplate”,...
View ArticleLaracon Online Schedule Announced
Laracon Online has just announced the event schedule for the conference that will be held on March 8th. All times are in EST: 8:00am – Mingle in Slack 8:45am – Opening remarks 9:00am – Jeffrey Way...
View ArticleLaravel Countries and Currencies Package
Antonio Carlos Ribeiro recently launched a new package that gives you a powerful setup for dealing with the different Countries of the world, all through a comfortable Laravel syntax using...
View ArticleAmazon releases a summary of the recent S3 outage
Amazon released a summary of the S3 Service Disruption on US-EAST-1 yesterday. The outage affected many sites, apps, and utilities that rely on the service. An S3 team member running an established...
View ArticleTesting File Uploads With Laravel
Laravel now includes a new system for testing file uploads through two new fake methods, one on the UploadFile class and another on the Storage facade. As the documentation shows here is a full test...
View ArticleEmpathy: the Cornerstone of Your Company Culture
Hard skills change constantly. Every year, developers must level up their skills to keep pace with the ever-changing landscape that is hardware and software. Technology moves so fast many of us have...
View ArticleInstalling Laravel in a Subfolder? Hide your .env file.
If you are new to Laravel you might not be familiar with its directory structure and the reasons why it’s setup the way it is. If you look at the main repository it’s setup like this, and the...
View ArticleCreating Alerts in Understand.io
Alerts can be created in Understand.io to automatically send a variety of notifications when something important takes place in your application. For example, you can create an alert to notify you if...
View ArticleLaracon Online Slack Is Now Open
Yesterday, we sent out all the invitations to the Slack Team for tomorrow’s Laracon Online event. Many attendees have already registered on Slack and have been chatting ever since. With over 3,500...
View ArticleSpeed Up Your Laravel App With Config Caching
When deploying your Laravel Application, I’m sure you want to fine tune as much as possible to make it as performant as it can be. The community offers many tools to help you in development like the...
View ArticleLaracon Online Schedule and FAQ
Laracon Online is now up and running, and we see a lot of common questions in the Slack room so here is a breakdown of the schedule and these questions. Today’s Schedule All times are EST for other...
View ArticleLaracon Online 2017 Recap
The first Laracon Online conference just wrapped up and based on feedback many loved the event. I want to personally thank the Laravel community for helping make this a reality. Here is some feedback...
View ArticleIn Laravel 5.5 “vendor:publish” Gets A Provider Prompt
In previous versions of Laravel the vendor:publish command will publish everything it finds, this includes configs, views, migrations, and more. Thanks to Trevor Fitzgerald starting with Laravel 5.5,...
View ArticleAtlantis CMS Framework
Building a CMS is a task similar to building a car. Both are designed by engineers but ultimately used by non-technical users. There’s always a balance between usability and craftsmanship. Such a...
View ArticleLaravelLive India
LaravelLive India is a brand new conference being held in New Delhi on March 19th. The speakers include Marcel Pociot, Lalit Vijay, Frederick Vanbrabant, Hannes Van De Vreken, and Freek Van der...
View ArticleGitLab Acquired The Chat App Gitter And Plans To Open Source It
Today GitLab announced that it has acquired the chat app Gitter that many communities use for communication. Also, many Laravel sub-communities use it as well, and you can find these through the...
View ArticleLaravel Decomposer – List your dependencies and environment for tech support
When working with Laravel apps, sometimes you encounter problems related to your application environment; a required PHP extension is missing, the storage directory is not writable, or there are...
View Article