How to Run a Successful Online Conference
Ian Landsman, one of the organisers behind Laracon Online, shares how he and his team have been running the succesfull online conference these past few years.
Read more [ianlandsman.com]
🐟 A package to execute a random artisan command original
Aren't you tired of having to think about which artisan command to execute? The spatie/laravel-random-command package takes that pain away. It provides a random command that will pick a random command and execute it.
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Make PHP lib functions like dump() or dd() globally available
Julien Bourdeau explains how you can use the auto_prepend_file option of PHP.
Read more [www.sigerr.org]
Blade Heroicons
– driesvints.com - submitted by Dries Vints
A package by Dries Vints to easily make use of the Heroicons built by Steve Schoger & Adam Wathan in your Laravel Blade views.
Read more [driesvints.com]
PHP reimagined
This is what would happen to PHP if my colleague Brent's will was law.
Read more [stitcher.io]
Testing without mocking frameworks
A must read by Frank de Jonghe on testing.
Read more [blog.frankdejonge.nl]
Building complex forms with Laravel Livewire in Oh Dear original
Together with my buddy Mattias Geniar, I run Oh Dear, an uptime checker service on steroids.
Unlike most uptime trackers, Oh Dear doesn't only check your homepage, but every single page of your site. When we detect a broken link or some mixed content, we send a notification. Oh, and we provide status pages, like this one from Laravel and Flare too.
In this blog post, I'd like to show you how we use Livewire to render some complex forms in the UI of Oh Dear.
Opting Out: A Simple Solution for Conditionally Cancelling Laravel Notifications
– tighten.co - submitted by Matt Stauffer
The average Laravel app sends between a few and a few dozen notifications to users, but what happens when they want to opt out? With legal regulations like GDPR, it's more important than ever to give users control over the emails they receive.
Read more [tighten.co]
Setting up a global .gitignore file
My colleague Seb explains why and how you should use a global .gitignore file
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
How COVID-19 is affecting internet traffic
Some interesting stats shared by Cloudflare.
Read more [blog.cloudflare.com]
Dropping support for a PHP version is not a breaking change
Seb explains why it's perfectly safe to drop a major version of PHP without tagging a new major version of a package.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
Event driven server in PHP
Brent did a cool experiment with ReactPHP and event sourcing.
Read more [stitcher.io]
Dark Lang: an uncommon step towards the future of programming
In an internal knowledge sharing session, my colleague Rias demonstrated this, and I was blown away by some of the features.
Read more [medium.com]
Explaining Laravel Queue configuration keys
In this series of video tweets, Mohammend Said explains some of the most confusing Queue configuration keys.
Read more [divinglaravel.com]
Native image lazy-loading for the web!
Did you know modern browsers can lazy load images out of the box? Laravel-medialibrary now supports this too.
Read more [addyosmani.com]
📺 The Full Stack Europe 2019 keynote: Building by Jeremy Keith original
Last year, my buddy Dries and I organised the first edition of the Full Stack Europe Conference. We recorded all the session and intend to publish each one of them in the coming months.
We just finished processing the first video. Here's the keynote, titled "Building" by Jeremy Keith.
How to check which version of PHP you are running original
When working on open source code, I like using the latest version of PHP. When developers that are not on the latest version use the package, they might see syntax errors.
You might ask why Composer doesn't protect against this? When composer.json requires the latest version, how do devs, not on the latest version, can even install the package?
Well, there seemingly are a lot of people that only upgrade the PHP version on the command line. For handling web requests, they are unknowingly using an older version of PHP. Here's how to make sure you are on the latest version of PHP on both the CLI and for handling web requests.
Mailcoach v2 has been released with support for custom HTML editors and multiple mailers original
A couple of months ago, my team released Mailcoach, a self-hosted solution to send out newsletters. It sends out mail via services like Amazon SES, Mailgun, Sendgrid, and Postmark. It can optionally track opens and clicks. When your email list grows, this is a much more cost-effective solution when compared to a service like Mailchimp.
Mailcoach can be used as a premium Laravel package or as a stand-alone app. When installed into a Laravel app, it can be greatly customized. The Mailcoach stand alone app can be used without knowing how to program.
Today we're releasing v2 of Mailcoach. It offers support for Laravel 7, html editors, and multiple mailers, together with a bunch of quality of life improvements. In this blog post, I'd like to walk you through these features and show some technical details.
On using arrow functions in PHP 7.4 original
In PHP 7.4 a widely requested feature landed: arrow function. In this blogpost I'd like to show you how I like to use them.
