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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
LaravelWeb Development

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…
Michael Stivala
Michael StivalaApril 10, 2016
LaravelRefactoringWeb Development

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…
Michael Stivala
Michael StivalaMarch 27, 2016
LaravelVueWeb Development

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…
Michael Stivala
Michael StivalaMarch 13, 2016
LaravelWeb Development

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…
Michael Stivala
Michael StivalaFebruary 27, 2016
LaravelSearch

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…
Michael Stivala
Michael StivalaFebruary 26, 2016
Laravel

Laracon EU 2015 Recap

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 Stivala
Michael StivalaSeptember 2, 2015

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