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on Apr. 12, 2016
I want to introduce you guys to an awesome e-commerce API called Moltin. It takes out so much hard work when it comes to creating an e-commerce platform and I have been working with the API to try and create an open source Laravel e-commerce platform which utilises the Moltin API as the core part…
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on Apr. 10, 2016
This evening, I had myself a little challenge. I would turn my two containers (MariaDB and my own built container) into more containers, but using the power of Docker's official container repos. E.g. I would have 3 containers in total PHP7-FPM, NGINX and my already created MariaDB. If you don't kno…
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on Apr. 8, 2016
At the beginning of this week, I had decided to give myself a little project of creating an app for the Windows 10 ecosystem. I wanted to my website to be a Windows 10 app and I wanted to create this with as little effort as possible. After a little searching around, I managed to find Project Westm…
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on Mar. 26, 2016
I want to share with you how I am hosting my website with Digital Ocean (hosting company) and Docker (places your app in containers). First off, I created my droplet on DO and used the docker image from the list of "One-click Apps". The droplet was the $10 a month size as I don't currently need any…
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on Feb. 26, 2016
I am really stoked to show you guys my brand new Blog built with October CMS. For my hosting, I have used Digital Ocean (click the link for $10 free). Digital Ocean is a fantastic hosting company which I just love to use as they give you complete control over your VPS, and they even give you One-cl…
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on Feb. 2, 2016
I have started using Laravel's View Composers which come in handy when you have a navigation bar that constantly needs certain data. For example, you have an ecommerce store and you need to poll how many items a user has in their basket on pretty much every page they move onto, or you need a login/…