– justinjackson.ca – Edit
Justin Jackson wrote a cool post on the benefits of public speaking.
As a geek, there's one skill that's helped me level-up professionally more than anything else: public speaking. Whether it's doing product demos, presenting an idea to my team, or being on a podcast, it's a skill I benefit from every day. But the biggest opportunities have come from giving talks.
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by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read – Edit
Laravel Nova is cool package to quickly create admin interfaces in a Laravel app. Unfortunately there's no support for multiple locales out of the box. A while ago we published a package called nova-translatable that makes any of the built in field types translatable. Using the package In order to…
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Mattias explains a problem we recently encountered at Oh Dear with Telescope.
For Oh Dear!, we're using Laravel Telescope as a convenient way of tracking/displaying exceptions, runs, ... It stores its exceptions in the database, so you can easily view them again. It stores those in a TEXT field in MySQL, which is limited to 2^16 bytes, or 65536 bytes. Some of our exceptions tend to be pretty long, and they were hitting this limit.
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✨ Laravel users, make this small change to your app.js file to auto register your Vue components. The filename becomes the component name. ?
— Jonathan Reinink (@reinink) 2 november 2018
Gist here: https://t.co/Y3NjLzgBEI pic.twitter.com/h5ByVNuiR6
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– ohdear.app – Edit
My buddy Mattias and I run a monitoring service called Oh Dear! We plan on regularly writing cool stuff on the technical and commericial challenges we face. Here's the first post on how we scale our queues.
Laravel offers a convenient way to create asynchronous background tasks using its queues. We utilize those heavily at Oh Dear! for all our monitoring jobs and in this post we'll share some of our lessons learned and what we consider to be best practices.
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Benjamin Eberlei wrote a post on why and how he got rid of Slack in his company.
We have moved away from Slack at Tideways over the last three months, because I found Slack is already annoying, even with just a four person team (plus the occasional freelancer). For me, it disrupts deep work phases and knowledge lost in the depth of chat history.
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?⚾️ Just found out throw_unless returns the provided condition! This took an already super handy helper and made it ? pic.twitter.com/aaz3Oc7uye
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) October 26, 2018
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– stitcher.io – Edit
It's very frustrating I can't use a scaled resolution on my Mac because of PhpStorm.
PhpStorm has had performance issues on OSX for a very long time now, sometimes to the point of being unusable. I've written about these issues before, but it's good to keep a regularly updated list of what's going on. So without further ado: if you're on OSX (Sierra, High Sierra or Mojave); if you're experiencing PhpStorm performance issues, this post might help you.
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by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read – Edit
At Spatie we do a lot of open source work. You can find a list of our packages on the open source section of our website. I'm proud to share that, according to Packagist, the Spatie packages have now been downloaded over 20 million times. The rate at which they are being downloaded is growing too.…
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Rob Allen performs a cool test.
Recently I needed to test part of Slim that uses the built-in PHP functions header() and headers_sent(). To do this, I took advantage of PHP’s namespace resolution rules where it will find a function within the same namespace first before finding one with the same name in the global namespace.
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Christopher Pitt has built his own new blog. Of course he uses lots of preprocessing goodness.
In fact, this whole blog is built on preprocessed code. Why? Because I want to see what I can build, using a technology that 99% of vocal PHP developers (read: people on Reddit and Twitter) scoff at. I want to show that preprocessing works well and is popular in other languages.
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– stitcher.io – Edit
PHP Hero Brent Roose clearly explains the difference between array_merge and the + operator.
PHP has several ways of combining two arrays into one. There's a subtle difference between two methods though, a difference worth knowing.
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? The "pluck" method in Laravel's collections can take a string with dots to get a list of deeply nested values. You can also add a star to combine deeply nested lists ?https://t.co/qckA0dLw45 pic.twitter.com/3im6dGYoTi
— Joseph Silber (@joseph_silber) October 25, 2018
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Whoops error pages are awesome, though sometimes you may need to analyze stack trace in PhpStorm!
— PhpStorm (@phpstorm) October 19, 2018
Tools -> Analyze Stack Trace
Can also be handy if you got a stack trace from a remote server log. pic.twitter.com/OVRb5KnBJQ
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by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
While working on a package I found myself trying to combine some data. This is what my code looked like. Assume that $locales and $fields are arrays that are already populated. collect($locales)->each(function (string $locale) { collect($fields)->each(function (Field $field) use ($locale)…
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Last week Adam Wathan's excellent Laracon US talk was published. Highly recommened to check it out even if you don't use Laravel.
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At the LaraconLive India conference, Shawn McCool shared some interesting ideas on how to handle models in complex apps.
If you want to speak at the 2019 edition of the conference, you'll be happy to learn that they currently have a CFP running.
by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read – Edit
Besides enjoying some greenfield work, we often have to work on legacy projects at Spatie too. Sometimes those projects don't run on the latest PHP version. I this blogpost I'd like to show you a way to switch PHP version easily when using Laravel Valet. (I know you could also use Docker or…
by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read – Edit
For a project I'm working on I needed to build a lightweight, pragmatic search. In this blogpost I'd like to go over my solution. Searching Eloquent models Imagine you need to provide a search for users. Using Eloquent you can perform a search like this: User::query() ->where('name',…
by Freek Van der Herten – 8 minute read – Edit
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. IDE I mainly program PHP. Mostly I develop in PhpStorm. Here's a…
