Full stack developer with a passion for product development & technology. Founder of SportShots.ai and Engineering manager and Solution Architect at Lighthouse.com.
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.
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?
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 ...
Blackfire is a PHP profiler that allows you to inspect your app's performance. It's great for discovering what exactly is slowing down your application, or what is eating away precious memory. For my projects, ...
This week I discovered a small Vagrant utility for OSX that makes managing your Vagrant boxes really easy. Some may argue that Vagrant doesn't really need UI tool since the command line interface is so simple. ...
I found myself in a bit of a strange situation when I was doing this query in Laravel:
Often you will want to debug what is going on in the background of your Laravel application, by doing something like var_dump or dd . When I used to work on a lot of CodeIgniter projects, we always had this ...
Configuration management tools are awesome, if you are still doing everything manually or with bash scripts, then check out my blog post on infrastructure as code . I use Chef as my provisioning tool of choice, ...
David Desberg, also known as Lusitanian, has created an awesome OAuth 1 and 2 client , so I decided to integrate it into Laravel. His library has support for 34 services, including all the mayor services like ...
Not many people know this, but you can actually use the Laravel database component outside the Laravel framework (PyroCMS is actually using it in their CMS). This means you can use Eloquent in whatever project ...
If you haven't looked at Laravel's route model binding, you should definitely do it. Model binding allows you to inject model instances into your routes. This way, route parameters will automatically be converted ...
The Collection class in Laravel is really awesome. In Laravel, database query results are returned as a collection object, that "wraps" the actual results. The class contains a lot of handy methods that ...
This blog post is outdated; I ditched guard a long time ago in favor of Gulp
This blog post is outdated, please read this updated blog post .
Unfortunately, Laravel 4 has no native support for Mongo databases. Once I started searching for open source Mongo packages on GitHub, I was disappointed that not one package was able to seamlessly integrate a ...