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 [...]
Autoloading and Utility Methods – Part 3
This is the third part of Building an MVC Framework with Ruby. The topics we’ll cover are: Part 1 – Rack Deep Dive Part 2 – Set up a Basic Framework Part 3 – Autoloading and Utility Method Part 4 – Better Routing Part 5 – Render, Redirect & Before_Action Methods in Controllers Part 6 – Extract Complexities [...]
Website Optimisation: The Little Bits
In website development, we come across the phrase optimisation on a daily basis. Optimisation usually refers to techniques or technology used to make your website run faster, respond faster, adapt to different screen sizes and be search engine friendly. Some popular techniques for optimising your website include: Minification of web resources [...]
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. [...]
Build Your First Mobile App with Ionic – Part 1
I believe one of the really good ways of properly learning something is taking baby steps. I started learning how to build mobile applications with Ionic Framework last week and I am excited to share my learning process and knowledge with you. Let’s let to build mobile apps with our existing web skills together. You need to have some [...]
Fluent Routing in Laravel 5.2
This is a series of posts that showcase new features and aha moments in Laravel 5.2 1. Implicit Route Model Binding 2. Simplified Eloquent Global Scopes 3. Append Scheduled Tasks Output 4. Form Array Validation 5. Middleware Groups 6. Auth Scaffolding 7. Â Api Rate Limiting 8. More helper functions 9. Fluent Routing Introduction Laravel 5.2 [...]
More helper functions in Laravel 5.2
This is a series of posts that showcase new features and aha moments in Laravel 5.2 1. Implicit Route Model Binding 2. Simplified Eloquent Global Scopes 3. Append Scheduled Tasks Output 4. Form Array Validation 5. Middleware Groups 6. Auth Scaffolding 7. Â Api Rate Limiting 8. More helper functions 9. Fluent Routing There are Facades and there [...]
Set up a Basic MVC Framework – Part 2
This is the second part of Building an MVC Framework with Ruby. The topics we’ll cover are: Part 1 – Rack Deep Dive Part 2 – Set up a Basic Framework Part 3 – Autoloading and Utility Methods Part 4 – Better Routing Part 5 – Render, Redirect & Before_Action Methods in Controllers Part 6 – Extract [...]