Character Development
An important post by Nico.
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The Source Of Readability
It's always nice to read good post on code reability.
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Fast database queries are not always better
Tim McDonald explains Laravel's cool whenQueryingForLongerThan method.
Read more [timacdonald.me]
Why does a backslash prefix improve PHP function call performance
Personally, I've never done this, as it feels like a micro-optimizations, but still good to know.
Read more [www.deviaene.eu]
All-hands planning meetings are probably a waste of time
Spicy headline, but good food for thought!
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Craft emails that look good in each email client using MJML original
In a perfect world, email clients can render HTML as good as major browsers. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Email clients don't support modern HTML and CSS niceties and have a lot of quirks to be mindful of. Making sure an HTML email looks good in the most used email clients takes a lot of work.
To make crafting HTML emails a lot more enjoyable, the folks at Mailjet created a solution called MJML, which stands for "Mailjet Markup Language." It's an easy-to-use abstraction layer over HTML.
We have created a new package called spatie/mjml-php to easily convert MJML to HTML using PHP. If you're using Sidecar, you'll be happy to know that we've also created a package called spatie/mjml-sidecar, to convert MJML to HTML using Sidecar.
In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.
Why Agility–not Agile–is the Best Tool for Project Management
– tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta
There are a many ways to organize software projects, each with their pros and cons. I’ll break down a few common methodologies, and share smarter ways of working that enable your team to remain flexible.
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Livewire Real-time Presence!
– ahmedash.dev - submitted by Ahmed Ammar
Dive into a hands-on experiment with Laravel and Livewire, exploring real-time page presence. Discover how to let users see who's viewing the same content in real-time. Packed with code snippets.
Read more [ahmedash.dev]
Laravel Form Requests deep dive
– ahmedash.dev - submitted by Ahmed Ammar
Dive deep into the magic behind FormRequest validation and uncover the steps Laravel takes to make your life easier
Read more [ahmedash.dev]
Digging Into Livewire 3 Forms
– fly.io - submitted by Chris Fidao
We see how to use the new Form objects in Livewire 3, and dig into how validation is wired up.
Read more [fly.io]
Using Laravel Volt to display realtime live stats
– ahmedash.dev - submitted by Ahmed Ammar
Just used Livewire 3 and Volt to create a 'live users' stat component. Curious about the process? Come along as I show how it's done!
Read more [ahmedash.dev]
Create a Persistent Chat Widget with Livewire 3
– fly.io - submitted by Chris Fidao
Use Livewire 3's new Persist feature to create a chat widget that persists throughout your site without needing an SPA.
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Using Caddy to deploy Laravel apps with zero downtime
– blog.eddy.management - submitted by Pascal Baljet
Caddy 2 is a popular web server written in Go. It is known for its simplicity and ease of use. It is also very easy to configure and deploy. In this tutorial, we will see how Eddy Server Management (open-source) can help you deploy Laravel apps with zero downtime.
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A first look at Laravel Prompts
– www.youtube.com - submitted by Philo
Let's take a look at Laravel Prompts! In this video, we will refactor some existing CLI commands and take them to the next level. 🔥
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How we created those fancy animations on the Flare homepage original
Some fancy tricks are being used to achieve this.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Implementing social logins at Flare
You can now log into Flare and Oh Dear using your Google or GitHub account. In this blog post, you'll see the code that powers the social login feature.
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Using Postmark Rebound to improve handling of bounced emails original
Whenever Oh Dear detects something wrong with your site, it can send you a notification. We have multiple channels available: Slack, Telegram, webhooks, and many more. The most popular channel our users use is just simple mail.
Behind the scenes, Oh Dear uses Postmark to send emails. Postmark will inform us whenever a notification mail results in a hard bounce. A hard bounce means that the mail won't be delivered. The most common reason for this is that the mailbox doesn't exist (anymore). This can occur when somebody changes jobs, and the work email address no longer exists.
Watch my Laracon US talk: Enjoying Laravel Data original
Here's a recording of my talk that I gave Laracon US in Nashville a week ago.
Laravel Folio deep dive
– ahmedash.dev - submitted by Ahmed Ammar
Diving into the core of Folio understanding how it works under the hood!
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Handling Signals in Laravel
– fly.io - submitted by Chris Fidao
We see how Laravel queues handle graceful restarts/stops, and how we can do the same in our own Artisan commands.
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