Creating Your First Slack Bot
In my opinion, Slack has taken over the world. Several companies are now using Slack for their internal communication. The amazing thing about Slack is that you can actually program bots to automate several tasks for your development team. From twitterbot to doorbot to typingspeedbot to virtually insane ideas you can think about. To be honest, [...]
Laravel 5.1 Intermediate QuickStart is Here!
Yesterday I wrote a post about how Taylor Otwell wrote a Beginner QuickStart for those looking to learn Laravel. Now, Today he has written an Intermediate QuickStart and it’s awesome. It’s so great to have such a legend in the industry simply creating avenues to make learning Laravel as easy as possible and creating a great community [...]
Manipulate & Verify Data Quickly Using Laravel Tinker
As developers, the terminal is our home and we can get, verify and manipulate several forms of data from there. Imagine a situation where you want to easily verify the data from your Model methods quickly or you want to ascertain the return data of a function in your Controller, you don’t have to open your browser and do all of that. [...]
Laravel 5.1 Beginner QuickStart is Here!
Laravel is an amazing framework. It is simple, easy and very elegant. The framework does a lot of the heavy-lifting for you already. One good thing I love about Laravel is the community and how members of the community strive to make the learning process easier and simpler daily. Taylor Otwell created a nice documentation for 4.2, and improved [...]
PHP ISN'T SHITTY; YOUR MINDSET IS!
Before I started working with the PHP programming language, I had little to no respect for it. This was basically due to a mindset I was made to adopt by my immediate environment and within the work environment. PHP has always been regarded to as the shittiest programming language out there but I put this question to you: WHAT MAKES [...]
Robo – The Awesome Task Runner For PHP
Web Development is Hard. There are so many things you have to take into consideration during the course of building web applications, especially when you want to follow best practices and deliver the best product. One of those several actions is automating tasks. We have task runners like Grunt and Gulp, these two do an amazing job of automating [...]
Kahlan – Implementing the Goodness of RSpec/Jasmine in PHP Testing
In PHP, there are several testing frameworks you can use to test your applications. Popular ones including PHPUnit, Codeception, Behat and PHPSpec. PHPUnit helps you to unit test your code, Behat, PHPSpec gives you the ability to do a form of behavioural testing. Today, I introduce to you Kahlan, A very awesome full-featured Unit and BDD test [...]
PhalconPHP: An Introduction to the Fastest PHP Framework
The PHP community has grown in leaps and bounds. Several kingdoms( PHP Frameworks) have risen and fallen. My favorite: Laravel is the most popular and loved PHP framework and that’s what I use for all my production apps. Introduction Phalcon is an open source web framework delivered as a C extension for the PHP language providing high [...]
PHP BOOTCAMP: Develop Your Own CLI Scripts
Developers run CLI Scripts every now and then and I bet you have used them severally. I mean Command line/ Shell Scripts. The Question is: Have you been able to create yours? Have you wondered how these things are created? As a Laravel Developer, have you wondered how php artisan, php artisan <a-type-of-argument> works? It’s actually [...]
PHP BOOTCAMP: Magic Constants
There are a lot of methods, classes and constants that PHP offers to developers for use. We’ll talk about the MAGIC CONSTANTS today. Note: These constants didn’t just appear in the standard PHP library, they were not dropped from heaven and a PHP developer doubling as a magician also didn’t write them. This was actually intended [...]