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Blockchain

Blockchain Island and the future of Malta’s budding Blockchain industry

As of 3rd July 2018, Malta has become the first country to provide a legal framework for businesses working in the blockchain space. That and…
Michael Stivala
Michael StivalaJuly 27, 2018
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Writing SOAP Web Service Consumers in PHP

Recently I've had to interact with a number of SOAP web services, and I've come up with some techniques to help build good SOAP web service…
Michael Stivala
Michael StivalaMarch 1, 2017
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Copying Font Awesome Fonts with Laravel Elixir

For some reason, I always have trouble setting up Font Awesome (quickly) with Laravel & Elixir. It's three easy steps. Pull in font-awesome with npm or…
Michael Stivala
Michael StivalaDecember 2, 2016
LaravelTesting

The Perfect Staging Environment

I've recently created a staging environment that I'm proud of, and I'd like to share it with you. I wanted my staging environment to accomplish…
Michael Stivala
Michael StivalaNovember 19, 2016
LaravelRefactoringWeb Development

Refactoring Advanced Eloquent Filters To Collections

Amo Chohan wrote a very good article detailing a technique he uses to clean up controllers when dealing with complex search queries in eloquent. I'm…
Michael Stivala
Michael StivalaMay 23, 2016
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Stress Testing a Website with Throng

I recently needed to stress test a website to ensure that it could hold up in the real world - after some searching I stumbled…
Michael Stivala
Michael StivalaMay 9, 2016
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Creating an Embeddable Javascript Widget

One of the updates I'm working on for WhichBeach is the ability for other website owners to embed WhichBeach widgets that will display up-to-date beach data.…
Michael Stivala
Michael StivalaMay 7, 2016
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Applying Text Transform to Form Inputs

I often find myself in the situation where a design calls for form inputs to transform the user's text. It's pretty easy to do nowadays:…
Michael Stivala
Michael StivalaApril 27, 2016
Web Development

Immutable Objects Will Improve Your Life

Learning about immutable objects improved my PHP code thoroughly. I've listed some helpful resources below that really helped me grasp the concept of immutability and value…
Michael Stivala
Michael StivalaApril 18, 2016
ApisWeb Development

Logging Guzzle Requests

I'm working on a project that involves consuming a Json REST Api - it's sometimes useful to log the requests being made - both for…
Michael Stivala
Michael StivalaApril 13, 2016
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