Laravel Valet – Simplifying PHP Dev Environment
For a long time, there was really no special PHP Development Environment. Everyone just fired up their laptops, opened their editors and served their web applications using wamp, mamp or xampp. Laravel came into the scene and changed the game. It’s so amazing to see the creator of a framework care so much about the development environments [...]
7 Laravel Packages to Supercharge your Models
We cook, eat, think and build Software daily as Engineers. Several times, we come across new challenges, new features that invokes serious thinking, new problems that almost brings our brains to a screeching halt as a result of its complexity. As a developer using Laravel to build software, you are often faced with creating Models and Migrations [...]
PHP like a Boss: The Magic of Metaprogramming & Reflection – Part 1
PHP is a Shitty language. PHP is garbage. PHP is f**ked up! I have been constantly molested verbally by developers of other languages like Python and Ruby that think PHP is just outrightly stupid but as a PHP Ninja that I am, I know the good sides, I know the dark sides, I have also explored the ugly sides and overtime I have known how to [...]
One way to Greatness: Pick Yourself
I’ve heard many people say this: “I want to be great”, but most people only just have wild thoughts & imaginations of greatness, their daily plans & actions are pretty normal, nothing out of the extraordinary. Let me burst your bubble, Greatness is too handsome, cute, well-polished & uber charismatic to just descend on anyone, [...]
Introducing Laravel Hackathon Starter Pack
Software Developers are unarguably one of the smartest beings in the world. A lot of thinking, analysis and calculations are done by this folks on a daily basis and in turn lots of applications ( mobile, web, command line) are developed that continously makes the world a better & fun place to live in. Anyways, enough of the hype! Even [...]
Introducing Laravel-Emoji 1.0.0
Emoji has become a very important part of this dispensation. We find emojis everywhere these days. From BMM to Whatsapp to Gmail to Twitter and so many services, people have found it useful for expressions of various kinds. As a developer, you might need to be able to display or manipulate emojis in any application you are working on. PHP [...]
Introducing Laravel Identify 1.0
Packages with simple or complex functionalities have made development easier. Currently, you just have to think of your app’s business logic alone while leveraging the help of packages to take care of other functionalities. Detecting the browser, device and operating system that a user is using to surf your app can prove to be a pain [...]
Test Driven Laravel From Scratch
TDD is a very important part of the software development cycle. Laravel 5 came with a lot of changes and part of those changes involved integrating Jeffery way’s testing integrated package into the Laravel Core which has made integration testing a bliss. The fact still remains that there a lot of people that really don’t know how [...]
Announcing the release of Lumen 5.2
Lumen is a micro framework carved out of Laravel. Slim, Flight, Silex are all examples of micro frameworks that you can easily employ to build your strictly API applications without using almighty Laravel or CakePHP or Symfony or even Zend. There are so many components you wouldn’t need in the full-fledged frameworks when building APIs [...]
Build Your First Mobile App with Ionic – Part 2
The focus of this app is to easily get hold of developers that actively contribute to open source in PHP and JS. Luckily for us, we have the data of the most active github users from 1st of Dec 2014 to 1st of Dec 2015 available to us by the help of paulmillr here. We could decide to just fetch it from there or download it as a .json file. [...]