Development

Everywhere that I go, conference, the supermarket, the dentist, building sites, people always ask me about the Composer lock file. It's a mystery that seems to cause confusion all across the globe. Well, boys and girls, I'm here today to …

Until recently, my bookshelf contained titles that were purely Laravel related. 'Code Happy' and 'Code Bright'. They've been extremely popular with the Laravel community, and I sincerely hope that 'Code Smart' is equally as successful. I've recently released a title …

Great news! My latest title 'PHP Pandas' is now available for purchase on Leanpub.com. PHP Pandas is the PHP book for everyone. It's a syntax book, that doesn't assume any prior knowledge of development. It's great way for beginners …

I would simply like to bring to your attention the Blade language tm files created by Medalink from the Laravel community. The tmfile can be used with Sublime Text 2, Textmate, or any other texteditor that supports the tmLanguage extension, …

Lami asks: Big thanks for such a great book first of all. Are you familiar with continuous integration with PHP development and how it ties in with Laravel. Also what tools do you recommend for a startup looking to build …

I have known for a while now that my previous code block's weren't the easiest to read, so I have decided to change them. We will now be using laravel/github style color schemes with line numbers, they should be …

Before I start, I'd first like to say that Coda 2 is an absolutely fantastic piece of software. I think that Panic are an amazing company ( I own some of their other apps ) and that I really appreciate that they …

For the last few months I've been spending my evenings typing like my fingers are on fire, dedicating some of my free time to a new side project. I'd like to introduce PHPandas. PHPandas is a book targetted at absolute …

After several months in the making I'm pleased to announce the print copy of Code Happy. The print copy is available from Lulu in A4 format, with nicely sized type and code samples, and a beautiful glossy coa... cover. The …

A few people were asking to see the nginx configuration used on my website. Here it is with a few comments to help it all make sense. I don't claim to be an nginx expert, because I've only recently switched …

Hopefully you have heard about the Laravel conference that is taking place next week in Washington DC. I was kindly offered a speaking slot at the conference and how could I say no? So you might be wondering what I’ …

You may have seen Laravel's core libraries use method chaining as an elegant way of providing multiple user definable settings to a library, for example the Fluent Query Builder allows you to chain methods together to build your SQL query …