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I'm proud to announce that our new premium course on writing readable PHP is now available. It's called Writing Readable PHP.

This course contains a collection of bite-size tips (both in written form and videos) that make your code a joy to read for your co-workers and future self. These tips are aimed towards developers who know the basics of PHP and want to improve their craft. As a bonus, you'll learn to use static analysis to ensure that your code is understandable and correct.

Writing Readable PHP has been created by our team and Christoph Rumpel. It contains our combined knowledge on how to write the best PHP possible.

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Last month, The Laravel Documentary was released which showed the history behind Laravel. For the documentary a lot of people that are active in the Laravel community were interviewed.

From the footage that did not make into the documentary, the makers behind the documentary distilled a cool new short movie about PHP.

I'm honoured the some of my interview snippets made the cut. 😎

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A super nice way to go about this, thanks to Philo. Cool stuff!

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We are currently rebuilding the Oh Dear website and application frontend. In this post, you'll read more about the project setup and tools used.

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DRY up code by deferring specifics to a callback.

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Passing booleans to a method can be code smell, as it is not clear what a boolean does by reading the calling code.

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Unlike traditional Long-polling using AJAX requests, where multiple requests are sent to the server and a new connection is established each time, event streams are sent to the client in real-time in a single request.

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Rohan Deshmukh on the value of avoiding SaaS products and self-host instead.

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PHP is such a good language at this point.

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Andrew Schmelyun built a very cool side project. I don't dare to introduce this at Spatie.

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Andraes Möller blogged a few interesting strategies to name the constructors of your PHP objects.

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While Amazon S3 is awesome for storage, It also has a feature called S3 Select. With S3 Select, You can use a simple SQL query to filter the content of the stored objects. and retrieve only a subset of data that you need.

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I'm looking forward seeing with this group of developers will do for PHP.

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Sometimes the extreme is surprisingly appropriate. Unique business models emerge when at least one dimension is so extreme that it defies critics and competitors to even conceive of its possibility.

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Probably you'll never use this way of sorting in a real app, but it's kinda cool that it'll work.

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The Laravel team released the next major version of Laravel Valet (3.0), which introduces running multiple versions of PHP in Valet applications side-by-side.

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In this article, Louis Lazaris describes and demonstrates some interesting HTML attributes that you may or may not have heard of and perhaps find useful enough to personally use in one of your projects.

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Shawn McCool shares some interesting thoughts on how things should be named.

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I'm happy to announce that we have released Visit. This tool can display the response of any URL. Think of it as curl for humans. By default, the output will be colourized, and the response code and time will be displayed after the response.

JSON responses will be colourized by default as well.

And there's integration with Laravel: it can log in any user, report the numbers of queries used to build up the response, and more.

I'd like to tell you all about it in this blog post.

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Are you getting errors with laravels groupBy()? Here is short explanation of why.

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