March 1, 2017 • 13 minute read
Although I've been aware of podcasts for as long as they've been around, it's only in the past six months that I've become a huge fan of the medium. It all started with The Laravel Podcast, a show that I started listening to after a conversation with Gordon Murray prompted me to...
February 15, 2017 • 2 minute read
Laravel's pagination features make it really simple to paginate your database queries and provide your users with links to navigate between pages of results. By default, these links are styled using standard Bootstrap classes. If you want to change the template used for the pagin...
February 15, 2017 • 1 minute read
Laravel Mix is the fantastic Webpack-based asset compilation framework that ships by default with Laravel 5.4, replacing the Gulp-based Laravel Elixir. It has a ton of sensible defaults, and it's likely that you can use the default scripts in most cases to compile your assets. In...
January 27, 2017 • 2 minute read
I'm excited to announce a new open source blog platform targeted at software developers. I call it clob. I keep getting platform fatigue and constantly bounce between different products when it comes to blogging. As a developer, I love reinventing the wheel, so thought why not cr...
January 27, 2017 • 1 minute read
If you're trying to run Homestead on an Ubuntu Linux host you might get a complaint that your machine does not support NFS when trying to run vagrant up for the first time. To fix this, you need to install the nfs-common and nfs-kernel-server packages on your host system. $ sudo...