This is a technique that I recently found useful. Eloquent models allow you to specify a custom collection object to be returned - which sometimes…
Michael StivalaApril 10, 2016
I'm the proud owner of WhichBeach - the website that tells you which beach is best to visit (in Malta) based on the weather, updated hourly. As…
Michael StivalaMarch 27, 2016
I recently came a cross a small stumbling block when rendering a select box from data passed to my component via props. This is my…
Michael StivalaMarch 23, 2016
Last weekend I chose to develop an SPA (single-page application) written in Laravel and Vue.js in order to promote the launch of my band Stalko's second…
Michael StivalaMarch 13, 2016
If you're not backing up your websites in production, you should be. Be prudent with your backups so that when data loss happens, you can…
Michael StivalaFebruary 27, 2016
In this post we'll explore Elasticsearch; the basics of search and how to set it up with Laravel, Homestead and even Forge. Even though there…
Michael StivalaFebruary 26, 2016
I wrote an article about how learning the language of the business should effect your code over at BRND WGN. One way to alleviate the…
Michael StivalaSeptember 23, 2015
When venturing on something new, I automatically pop over to Laracasts to see if Jeffrey's got an opinion about it. If you do the same, then…
Michael StivalaSeptember 6, 2015
I wrote a recap of my experience at Laracon EU 2015. Learning Outcomes 1) It’s great to be surrounded by the pioneers of my industry…
Michael StivalaSeptember 2, 2015