Series Chapters
It's a bit overdue, but I need to add chapter headings to each series here at Laracasts. Come along as I use TDD to drive out this small change to the …
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Laracon Mobile App
It just got a whole lot easier to keep up with the Laracon US schedule with a brand new iOS and Android app. Some of the highlights of this app include seeing …
Authentication and the Have I Been Pwned API
The very first feature I added to Have I Been Pwned after I launched it back in December 2013 was the public API . My thinking at the time was that it would make the data more easily accessible to more people to go and do awesome things; build mobile clients, integrate into security tools and surface more information …
Dividing responsibilities - Part 1
I'm happy to share with you an excerpt of my latest book, which is currently part of Manning's Early Access Program. Take 37% off Object Design Style Guide by entering fccnoback into the discount code box at checkout at manning.com. Chapter 7: Dividing responsibilities We've looked at how objects can be used …
Bigger Rewards for Security Bugs
Posted by Natasha Pabrai and Andrew Whalley, Chrome Security Team Chrome has always been built with security at its core, by a passionate worldwide community …
PHP Internals News: Episode 19: Deprecate curly brace syntax
PHP Internals News: Episode 19: Deprecate curly brace syntax London, UK Thursday, July 18th 2019, 09:19 BST In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Theodore Brown ( Twitter , Website , GitHub ) about the "Deprecate curly brace syntax for accessing array …
Trimming the Phat
Fig 1. A very fancy Tomb We all think we know how dead code elimination works, we can just reference code coverage, or run static analysis, or rely on our own internal model of the code, which is always absolutely perfect ... Dead can mean multiple things when we're talking about code, at least: Compiler …
Laravel v5.8.29
The Laravel team released v5.8.29 which includes a few new features, performance improvement to MorphTo relationships, and a few bug fixes. …
Creating virtual environments with Pyenv
rst2pdf is a Python 2 application that we're making compatible with Python 3. When developing Python applications, I've found it useful to be able to switch python versions easily and also set up clean environments to work in. To do this, I currently use pyenv . This is how I set it up: Install Pyenv On my …
Hire When It Hurts
You may have noticed that Basecamp is in the midst of what qualifies around here as a mini hiring boom: five open positions across customer support, programmin…
502 Bad Gateway
HTTP is a protocol that is implemented by servers and clients, but there is a third category: proxies. When a system is acting as a proxy for a different server, and that server is misbehaving or doing something unexpected, the proxy can return 502 Bad Gateway to tell a client that the proxy is working fine, …
Laravel Media Package
Laravel Media is a package by Jack Robertson for attaching files to eloquent models. The post Laravel Media Package appeared first on …
Avoid Flags
Technique #7. Particularly when it comes to your public interface, be careful about requiring flags to toggle various functionality. Instead, ask yourself if …
Debugging CSS Grid with Firefox Dev Tools
CSS Grid is mostly composed of rows, columns, cells, tracks, gaps etc. These things are not elements by themselves; hence, it can be really tasking to …
Ordering columns with null values
And if you're a @laravelphp user wondering how you can use this feature, you can easily extend the query builder to support this.
A Shifty Email Bug
Jason McCreary, creator of Laravel Shift, wrote a post mortem on a problem where too many mails were sent. It was 7:07 am. I woke up to 56 emails, 17 …
Web Design Weekly #361
Headlines The Future of Websites: Headless CMSs In order to really grasp the elegance of headless CMS – and its possibilities – you have to cut through the clutter and understand how they work fundamentally. Dan Fries explains. (scotch.io) Get Your Free .design Domain Name Thinking of building your …
Am I micromanaging my team?
Here are the 5 most telling signs of micromanagement – and what you can do instead. I won’t tell anyone: You think you might be a micromanager. …
SymfonyCloud: from Early Access to General Availability
After two years of development and years of R&D with our partners: the technology behind SymfonyCloud is now production ready. We are thus super happy to …
Circuit Breaker Pattern in PHP
Circuit Breaker PHP is a package by Leonardo Carmo which implements the Circuit breaker design pattern using Redis as the backend. The post …