Every November there is a local mountain bike race that I enjoy competing in called a Ride-n-seek race. The goal is you and a partner have four hours to complete as many checkpoints as possible in the shortest amount of time possible. Today was the day of the event and I got up super early to head to the race and …
This week, the second beta of Symfony 4.2 was published in preparation for its final release in two weeks. In order to simplify the maintenance of Symfony …
At Spatie we have a tv screen against the wall that displays a dashboard. This dashboard displays the tasks our team should be working on, important events …
Flickr was THE place to upload and share photos until Yahoo bought it and ruined it, much like they did Tumblr and everything else they touched. A few months ago it was announced that Smugmug was buying Flickr and was to keep it going and then a few weeks it announced pro plans and a limit on the number of free …
Before we move on to eventing, let's take another quick stroll through our main ProjectsController to review readability. Are there any places where we can …
Static Sites are the new hotness in Web Development and rightfully so. Every day on podcasts, blog articles, and tweets I see and hear more and more people …
Meer dan 8 op de 10 jonge Belgen heeft amper nog cash op zak, en 75% van alle smartphonegebruikers geeft aan regelmatig mobiele betalingen uit te voeren. In het buitenland loopt dat op tot meer dan 90% (!) van alle consumenten. Mobiel betalen wint jaar na jaar terrein, wat dus ook meer rendement betekent voor …
Contributed by Roland Franssen in #24263 and #28934 . Symfony Profiler provides detailed debug information about your …
One of the nice things of Laravel Valet is that it includes an easy way to make your local site available publicly. For this it has the aforementioned Ngrok built-in. To use it, just run the valet share command, and your local site will be shared through a *.ngrok.io subdomain. However, when combining valet …
In the last installment of this series, we talked through the process of manipulating the translations in our application’s language files into a format where …
Many households struggle in today’s hectic world to sit down and have dinner together and, according to a UCLA study, when they do, it’s typically done in the kitchen instead of the dining room. Take a look at the diagram below where the red dots are the position of a family member every 10 minutes. A diagram from …
We are committed to building a future workforce that is as diverse as the communities we serve. As part of that commitment, Facebook London has joined the Year of Engineering campaign’s November focus on how engineering is shaping the future and ramped up our efforts to reach more young people. Our combined efforts …
Symfony 4.2.0-BETA2 has just been released. Here is a list of the most important changes: bug #29190 [Debug][HttpKernel] remove frames added by …
Bit of a change of scenery this week; I've gone to the other end of the house whilst invasive palm tree roots are water blasted out from beneath my office window as part of our garden renos. But hey, that's a nice place to be on a day like this
1. Don’t just rely on your blog’s RSS feed Firstly, I used a tool which generates an RSS feed for me, and once I did this, I thought that was it. Once you have your RSS feed set-up, you should use an analytics feed tool such as https://feedburner.com. You tell it where your feed is, and they will generate a …
Wink is a Laravel-based publishing platform by Mohamed Said that can run on any Laravel application. It uses a separate database connection and authentication …
Posted by Mo Yu, Android Security & Privacy Team [Cross-posted from the Android Developers Blog ] In a previous blog post , we talked about using machine …
There is an old saying, “you are the sum of your friends” and it’s true. If most of your friends workout, you are probably going to workout. If most do drugs, chances are you’ll be doing drugs. Although I’ve heard this saying for many years and have always believed it, I have never experienced it first hand like I …
I just read this blog post by John Saddington, and I have to say, I 100% agree. Medium is a terrible user experience. When you visit the site, you get bombarded with signup/login modals and banners. Let’s not forget the horrible experience with comments. Instead of a nice threaded layout like Reddit, you get …
Contributed by Nicolas Grekas in #27009 . A cache stampede is a type of cascading failure that can occur when systems come under …