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September 20, 2017 • 2 minute read
Today DigitalOcean announced a great new product called Spaces that is essentially a much cheaper version of Amazon's S3 object storage product. For $5 per month, you get 250GB of storage and 1TB of bandwidth included. This would cost over $95 per month with S3. Additional storag...
September 11, 2017 • 7 minute read
Want to provide your customers with a quick and simple way of styling your Laravel application to match their corporate brand? This post is for you. If you've ever customised Bootstrap with Sass (or LESS) before, you already know how simple it is to drastically change the visual...
September 6, 2017 • 1 minute read
I ran into a problem today while trying to test out a Laravel API protected with OAuth2 via Laravel Passport. Essentially any time I tried to use Postman to consume an API protected by the auth middleware, it would return an error response with the message Unauthenticated. After...
September 1, 2017 • 1 minute read
A common issue you might experience when working on a Laravel application is the exception: RuntimeException No application encryption key has been specified. You'll often run into this when you pull down an existing Laravel application, where you copy the .env.example file to...
March 11, 2017 • 1 minute read
I ran into an issue this evening while working on a Laravel application. I was adding some mail functionality and set the MAIL_FROM_NAME environment variable to my name. Later, I got the following error message when I tried to load any page in my application: Fatal error: Uncaugh...