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 debugging and historical purposes. I’m using the popular Guzzle package to consume the Api, which has the middleware concept built in – allowing developers to register hooks during the request lifecycle, and… Continue reading Logging Guzzle Requests
Pushing Logic to Custom Collections
This is a technique that I recently found useful. Eloquent models allow you to specify a custom collection object to be returned – which sometimes can be a great place to put some business logic. While refactoring WhichBeach, I used a custom collection to move some logic from the Beach model to a custom BeachCollection.… Continue reading Pushing Logic to Custom Collections
Don’t Build Salmon Cannons
Today I learned about Salmon Cannons. Salmon have evolved to swim up river to spawn, but the introduction of dams has created a sometimes impossible obstacle for salmon to overcome. A clever solution has been found in the way of the Salmon Cannon – a slippery tube that sucks salmon over obstacles so that they can… Continue reading Don’t Build Salmon Cannons
Things I Used To Do (That Aren’t Cool Now)
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 I’m picking up the codebase ahead of this Summer’s updates, I can’t help but review and refactor the existing code. It’s interesting to dissect previous design decisions. Also, I’ve learnt… Continue reading Things I Used To Do (That Aren’t Cool Now)
Setting the default value of a select tag in Vue.js
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 component: And I’m including it in a parent Vue instance like so: The Problem I want to be able to set the selected tag from my parent instance. This works… Continue reading Setting the default value of a select tag in Vue.js
Using Laravel and Vue.js for Fame and Glory
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 album. You can check out the final product, and follow along with the code. The brief for this project is the following: Allow users to listen to a new Stalko… Continue reading Using Laravel and Vue.js for Fame and Glory
Backing up Laravel Applications
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 recover quickly and easily. All projects that I work on are version controlled, meaning that the project files are automatically backed up to a remote repository. Though the solutions I go… Continue reading Backing up Laravel Applications
Learning Elasticsearch with Laravel
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 are resources out there, I couldn’t find the one article that summarised everything I needed to get up and running in as short a time as possible. What is Elasticsearch… Continue reading Learning Elasticsearch with Laravel
Learning the Language
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 problem with ‘naming’ in programming is to write code using the jargon of your client’s business. With every new skill, comes a new bundle of terms that separate the complete… Continue reading Learning the Language
Search Laracasts through Chrome’s Omnibox
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 adding Laracasts as a custom search provider to Chrome makes this process even easier. Here’s how: Follow Google’s instructions on adding a custom search provider to Chrome. Here’s what they are as… Continue reading Search Laracasts through Chrome’s Omnibox