Our improved changelog workflow for packages
For years, my team and I manually updated the changelog for our 250+ packages. Recently, we've improved how we go about this.
In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.
TranslateCI makes human translations for your Laravel app as easy as using Git. Just push your code, and TranslateCI will take care of the rest. It scans for untranslated phrases, and uses professional human translators to support over 70 possible language pairs. When the translations are done, usually in less than 24 hours, TranslateCI makes a PR back to your repository. Check it out today!
Swoole vs Roadrunner for Laravel Octane
Link – – chriswhite.is - submitted by Chris White
Choosing between Swoole and Roadrunner in a Laravel Octane deployment can be overwhelming - in this post I compare the advantages and disadvantages of both.
Read more [chriswhite.is]
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Every two weeks I send out a newsletter containing lots of interesting stuff for the modern PHP developer.
Expect quick tips & tricks, interesting tutorials, opinions and packages. Because I work with Laravel every day there is an emphasis on that framework.
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Bitmasking in Laravel and MySQL
Link – – aaronfrancis.com - submitted by Aaron Francis
An introduction to using bitmasks in general, and their usage in PHP, Laravel, and MySQL.
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Announcing the PHP Foundation
Link – – blog.jetbrains.com
The PHP Foundation will be a non-profit organization whose mission is to ensure the long life and prosperity of the PHP language by funding part/full-time developers that contribute to the language.
Read more [blog.jetbrains.com]
Beg Bounties
Link – – www.troyhunt.com
Troy Hunt with a good piece on people asking money in order to disclose a vulnerability. I get a lot of these too.
Read more [www.troyhunt.com]
Measuring caffeine intake at Spatie
Link – – alexvanderbist.com
My colleague Alex finished a very cool sideproject. Using a Raspberry Pi he can now measure how many cups of coffee we drink at the office
Read more [alexvanderbist.com]
Laravel Package Training v2 is now available
I am excited to share that my team and I have just launched v2.0 of our Laravel Package Training video course.
Here's a the introductory video for the course:
The all-new Just-in-Time CDN for Tailwind
Simon give you a tour of the all-new Just-in-Time CDN build we're working on for Tailwind CSS v3.0, which lets you prototype with every variant, arbitrary values, and more - directly in the browser.
Multi-Input Sorcery And Other Laravel Livewire Tips
Daniel Coulbourne shares some cool Livewire insights.
Increase Database Performance By Using Multiple Columns
Link – – downing.tech
By thinking outside of the box, you can often get much faster database performance by splitting values across multiple database columns.
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Efficient Distance Querying in MySQL
Link – – aaronfrancis.com - submitted by Aaron Francis
A clever use of MySQL indexes and generated columns to make blazing fast geolocation searches.
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Database and Eloquent ORM: New features and improvements since the original Laravel 8 release (1/2)
Link – – protone.media - submitted by Pascal Baljet
In this series, I show you new features and improvements to the Laravel framework since the original release of version 8. This week is about the Database and Eloquent features in Laravel 8.
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A look at new features and improvements since the original Laravel 8.0 release: Collections
Link – – protone.media - submitted by Pascal Baljet
The Laravel team released so many great Laravel 8.x updates over the last year, it's incredible! I wrote a series of blog posts highlighting some of the best new features and improvements. Today: Collections.
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The Visitor Pattern in PHP
Link – – doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
The Visitor Pattern opens up your entities to extension without changing them (much); and keeps the code separate.
Read more [doeken.org]
How to test that an Eloquent model actually exists
In your tests, you might have used assertDatabaseHas to make sure that a model actual is persisted.
Ensuring data(base) consistency during concurrent requests
Link – – blog.frankdejonge.nl - submitted by Robin Dirksen
Bugs caused by race conditions can be a huge source or frustration. They are difficult to identify and often difficult to remedy.
Read more [blog.frankdejonge.nl]
Things I Didn't Know About SQS
Link – – laravel-news.com
Chris Fidao wrote another excellent post on AWS.
Read more [laravel-news.com]
How to update large data in Laravel
Link – – 42coders.com
Here are a few best practices for working with a large tables.
Read more [42coders.com]
Laravel Worldwide Meetup #11: Building APIs & Models/Spotlight With Livewire
Here's the recording of the latest edition of the Laravel Worldwide meetup. Philo Hermans showed off two great Livewire packages that he made. Steve McDougall did a cool live coding session on how to build APIs. And at the end, our suprise guest Caneco gave a nice little presentation on Lumen as…
My current setup (end 2021 edition)
My current setup (end 2021 edition)
After tweeting out a screenshot, it often get questions around which editor, font or color scheme I'm using. Instead of replying to those questions individually I've decided to just write down the settings and apps that I'm using.