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HTML Forms: Preventing Double Form Submissions

Nov 4th 2020 – www.bram.us

Here's how Bram Van Damme prevents double form submissions

Unconventional Laravel: Responsable Classes

Oct 22nd 2020 – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler

Sometimes your controllers can get rather large, especially if you have lots of conditions and data formatting. Have you ever considered moving some of that complexity out into a dedicated response class?

GitAttributes for PHP Composer Projects

Oct 22nd 2020 – php.watch

Here's a good rundown of things you can configure using the .gitattributes file.

Using Laravel's Policies and Route Model Binding without Eloquent

Oct 21st 2020 – timacdonald.me

Another nice post by Tim who continues to share suprising, little nice features of Laravel.

Going deep

Oct 20th 2020 – sebastiandedeyne.com

Seb makes the case that subtracting things can be better than adding things.

On Issue Bumping

Oct 19th 2020 – blog.sindresorhus.com

A nice, concise post by Sindre Sorhus on when to issue bump and when not to.

PHP be all like: that nonexistent class be cool

Oct 14th 2020 – timacdonald.me

In this blogpost, Tim MacDonald warns that PHP doesn't give you any warning when using ::class on a class that does not exist.

Never miss a webhook

Oct 6th 2020 – chipperci.com

Chris Fidao explains a cool strategy he uses at ChipperCI to never miss a webhook.

Translated Text in Source Code

Oct 5th 2020 – liamhammett.com - submitted by Liam Hammett

There are a few different ways to handle translated text in your codebase, but here we’ll cover 2 of the more common approaches; using the full text in your source code, and using translation keys.

Don't trust default timeouts

Sep 17th 2020 – robertovitillo.com

Modern applications don’t crash; they hang. One of the main reasons for it is the assumption that the network is reliable. It isn’t.

Making Time Make Sense in JavaScript

Sep 16th 2020

Maggie Johnson-Pint discusses where the JavaScript Date goes bad, better ways to model the date and time space in our code, and how the Temporal proposal making its way through TC39 helps us write correct code for every person in every time zone.

Refactoring PHP: 4 actionable tips

Sep 8th 2020 – christoph-rumpel.com

Christop Rumpel shares some good tips on how to refactor code.

Dialects in Code

Sep 1st 2020 – www.rosstuck.com

Ross Tuck doesn't blog often, but when he does, it's worth your time!

Introducing Laravel Beyond CRUD: a way of building large Laravel applications

Aug 27th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

It's funny how from the outside, IT is often seen as an exact science. When starting as a developer, I often heard people say: "Oh, you're in IT, so you must be good at mathematics". I never understood why someone who is supposedly good at mathematics is the right person to fix a printer.

When you have some experience building applications, you know that IT is not an exact science. There are multiple valid solutions to a problem. Take five developers and ask them what the best way to set up a blog is. You'll likely get five different answers. Each suggestion will have its own set of tradeoffs.

Relying on the database to validate your data

Jul 31st 2020 – matthiasnoback.nl

Matthias Noback shares his thoughts on when you should and when you shouldn't rely on the database to perform certain tasks

Why we need named arguments in PHP

Jul 15th 2020 – stitcher.io

Brent wants you to vote yes. Here's why from the point of view of a userland developer, both for client projects and open source.

Announcing the Laravel Beyond CRUD video course and book

Jul 9th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

I'm proud to announce our team is creating a new video course called Laravel Beyond CRUD. In this course, you'll learn various patterns to build a large scale Laravel app with your team. Even if you're not working on large Laravel apps, there are lots of things to learn to improve your projects.

This course will be offered as a premium video course, and as a book. The course will be presented by Brent, who is in the lead at various large scale client projects at Spatie. The book, also written by Brent, is beautifully designed by my colleague Seb.

At the Laravel Beyond CRUD website, you can subscribe to our email list. We'll notify you as soon as the course is available in September. We'll also mail you an extra preview.

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