All my thoughts on development
February 7, 2018
I'm really enjoying having simple gradient wallpapers at the moment and the gradient on the laracon.net website caught my eye. I made a few versions, the simple gradient, with the LaraconOnline logo... Keep reading
January 22, 2016
Let’s Encrypt is now publicly providing free SSL certificates so I thought it would be a good time to get on and secure my Gitlab instance. The usual web search for anyone that may have walked the... Keep reading
October 28, 2015
If you use Laravel you should be using Model Factories. If you’re then check out this introduction to Model Factories on Laravel News. The problem I’ve struggled with for a while is by default... Keep reading
October 28, 2015
I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with Material design. I defiantly think it gets over and incorrectly used. That said I am enjoying the new Material Theme for JetBrains IDEs – PhpStorm in... Keep reading
July 31, 2015
_Update: Good news, you can now use composer natively on Gandi Simple Hosting with thier update to PHP 5.6._
TL;DR Install composer in ~/web/includes and set the config option...
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July 30, 2015
I decided last night that I am just going to get something done. That's it … I decided. Of course I didn't actualy do anything—except lay awake for half the night thinking about what I could do,... Keep reading
April 10, 2015
So, a common technique to deploy a new release of your app might use a directory structure something like this: Then, when you want to deploy a new version of your app or site you clone the source... Keep reading
March 14, 2008
Looks like this could be a winning ORM for PHP doctrine-project.org. You can using YAML to define the schema files and create the database from the classes. The thing that really got me excited... Keep reading
March 11, 2008
This just took me too long to figure out. I needed json_encode function, and it seems that the fedora yum repos. doesn’t have a very up-to-date version of php5. I didn’t want to have...
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January 31, 2008
Lightweight PHP framework, Codeigniter releases 1.6. This release includes: A Database Forge class: database agnostic table and field manipulation An enhanced Active Record library A revised Session... Keep reading
December 15, 2007
Good to see 24 Ways back for their third year. Andy Clarke of Stuff and Nonesense has written an article called Underpants Over My Trousers, where he talks about comic design applied to the web.... Keep reading
November 28, 2007
favikon.com is so simple and intuitive. A useful little tool. Keep reading
November 16, 2007
Chris Heilmann, over at wait-till-i.com is doing a workshop at the Paris Web Conference on unobtrusive JavaScript and covering his “Seven rules of Unobtrusive JavaScript” Do not make any... Keep reading
November 16, 2007
So it took me a little while to figure it out so I was happy but this is my solution:
There is a bug in using multiple connections in system/database/DB_Driver.php about line...
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November 6, 2007
I often forget how useful curly brackets can be. For example from within a double quoted string you can do more than basic variable replacement. But a use that is not seen as commonly is the ability... Keep reading