Getting device information from your visitors
Mobiledetect is awesome, but it doesn't extract information for desktop devices and browser. So I decided to create my own package that extends Mobiledetect; meet the Agent .
Jens Segers
Full stack developer with a passion for product development & technology. Engineering manager and Solution Architect at Lighthouse.
Easy system email relay with Nullmailer and Mandrill
Installing and configuring Postfix or Exim often feels like rocket science to get everything set up without any security holes. But those days are over; meet the awesome Nullmailer + Mandrill combo!
Dependency injection with League's new Container
The PHP League just released version 2 of their dependency injection container, and this is why you should be excited.
Using Blade outside of Laravel
For me, Laravel's Blade templating engine is one of the best templating engines I have ever used. But wouldn't it be nice to use Blade outside of a Laravel project?
OSX Nano Syntax Highlighting
Wait, nano has syntax highlighting? Why did I not know this?
CLI progress bars in Laravel
Laravel 5.1 was released this week, and it came with a lot of interesting goodies. One of those goodies was the addition of Symfony's progress bar support for console commands. I have a lot of commands that ...
Laravel error logging with Sentry
Decent error logging is one of the most important things when it comes to building applications. It is so unprofessional when a client calls you about a bug and you have no idea what he is talking about. Wouldn't ...
Tilde and caret version constraints in Composer
Recently, Composer changed their default version constraint from using ~ (tilde) to ^ (caret). Luckily for you, my friend Hannes Van De Vreken wrote a great article about the difference between the two:
Id transformation with Optimus
Recently I wrote a blog post and gave a talk at php.gent about id obfuscation and how it can help hide your application internals from malicious users. While doing some research about other obfuscation techniques, ...
Behold the power of yield
The first time I read about yield in PHP was in the PHP 5.5 changelog back in 2013. Actually, I did not really give it that much attention, since I thought it was not that big of deal at the time. It wasn't ...
Adding Whoops back to Laravel 5
If you have ever used Laravel 4, you have probably seen the following Whoops error screen÷
Easy id obfuscation with Laravel 5
Be sure to check out my new blog post about id obfuscation with Optimus .
Automatically check your composer file for security vulnerabilities
SensioLabs' Security Checker is a command line tool that checks if your application uses dependencies with known security vulnerabilities. Adding this to an existing project to automatically scan your composer file is really easy.
Laravel 5 Eloquent attribute casting is awesome
Attribute casting is a new feature of Laravel's Eloquent model that was recently added without really getting much attention (yet). So what does it do, and how can you use it?
Perceptual image hashes
I recently discovered perceptual image hashes when I was in charge of removing thumbnails from a large set of images. Perceptual hashes are a completely different concept compared to the usual cryptographic hashing ...