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Introducing Laravel Password v1.0
Software is eating the world. The internet has become a very wild planet that harbors almost everything. With more and more of our lives being spent online, the list of accounts, social networks, and online shops we protect using passwords has also grown. The plethora of accounts has forced lots of people to use weak passwords during account [...]
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 [...]
Laravel Url Generation
When designing a new site, there are a few qualities that every user visiting your site will notice. Some can be argued out, like clear call to action across the site, while others just need to be easily noticeable. You have probably guessed by now that I am talking about user friendly navigation. A visitor to your site needs a GPS that guides [...]
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 [...]
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. 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. Api Rate Limiting 8. More helper functions 9. Fluent Routing There are Facades and there [...]