Oh Dear is the all-in-one monitoring tool for your entire website. We monitor uptime, SSL certificates, broken links, scheduled tasks and more. You'll get a notifications for us when something's wrong. All that paired with a developer friendly API and kick-ass documentation. O, and you'll also be able to create a public status page under a minute. Start monitoring using our free trial now.
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? In many cases avoiding `else` and using early returns will greatly improve readability of your code.
— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) 17 september 2019
I wish somebody would have told me this sooner in my career.
Contrived example in the image. Real world example: https://t.co/oOsSGAJLZm#bestpractices pic.twitter.com/YgqB0kMIpg
Link – – engineering.helpscout.com
In this old, but still relevant, blog post Craig Davis explains what guard clauses are and how they can be used to clean up your code.
We’ll first explore several versions of a sample method from a hypothetical billing system. For these purposes, we’ll assume this is code in an existing system and we’ll look at refactoring it to reduce complexity and make it easier for a programmer to understand. The first example will be trivial enough to easily understand, but we’ll build on it in the final examples.
Read more [engineering.helpscout.com]
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My buddy Mattias and I are running an uptime checker service called Oh Dear. Earlier this week, we've launched a new major feature: status pages.
In this blog post, I'd like to walk you through what status pages have to offer. We'll also dive deep in some technical details of the underlying Laravel app.
Link – – medium.com
Roberto B wrote a good tutorial on how to test your Laravel 6 application using GitHub actions.
The scenario that I would like to explain you is: I have a Web App based on Laravel 6, every time I push some new code on master branch on the GitHub repository, I would like to execute automatically Unit tests and Feature tests.
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I'm currently organizing the Full Stack Europe conference. The first edition will be on 23 - 25 October in the beautiful city of Antwerp, Belgium. I believe that the best apps or sites aren't built by programmers. They're built by teams. That's why we designed this conference for everybody and don't stick to just one aspect of programming.
Link – – madewithlove.be
Tony Messias wrote a good post on the Madewithlove blog on how to get started using Elastichsearch in a Laravel app.
One of the most popular ways is using Elasticsearch. It is a very powerful tool and it comes with a variety of useful features and complementary tools. We are going to cover the basics here and leave you with some links for more resources if you want to dig further.
Read more [madewithlove.be]
Link – – poolp.org
Contrary to the title, Gilles Chehade that it's acutually doable running your own mailserver.
TL;DR: Mail is not hard: people keep repeating that because they read it, not because they tried it. Big Mailer Corps are quite happy with that myth, it keeps their userbase growing. Big Mailer Corps control a large percentage of the e-mail address space which is good for none …
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Link – – davidhemphill.com
Some words of wisdom by David Hemphill
Don't be upset you didn't finish the big feature early in the week. Be glad you figured out what you need to do to finish it in the next few days.
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Link – – www.bram.us
Via the excellent bram.us blog I stumbled on this neat colletion of Reacht hooks.
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Today at Laracon EU, Marcel Pociot and I unveiled Ignition, a beautiful new error page for Laravel. It is the new default error screen in Laravel 6 and you can manually install it into Laravel 5 applications. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.
These past eight months Marcel Pociot, me and our teams at Beyond Code and Spatie have been working on a secret project called Flare. We believe that Flare is going to change the way you work with Laravel. To be kept in the loop subscribe to our mailinglist.
We are going to launch it this Friday at Laracon EU at 16.30 local time (15:30 CET). The Laravel News YouTube channel will live stream the launch. You can watch the stream right below.
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? If you need to process a lot of models, don't load them all into memory, but chunk them.
— Freek Van der Herten ? (@freekmurze) August 21, 2019
Laravel has a beautiful `each` method for this.https://t.co/cVWdpsGtQ1#laravel #php pic.twitter.com/ISW7XQcehx
Link – – stefanbauer.me
Stefan Bauer explains how to handle error message when you have multiple forms on one page
Here's another tip! Even if it's documented here I just wanted to show it. Here's the deal: Imagine you have multiple forms one page. For example one contact form and another newsletter signup form. Both of them might have an email field. So who do you know which email field doesn't validate and throws an error?
Read more [stefanbauer.me]
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☝️If you are relatively new to Testing in Laravel. Here are 3 methods you NEED to be familiar with.
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) August 21, 2019
Understanding these will make your life much easier. pic.twitter.com/x3mxjCsV9z
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If you're using #Laravel Valet in Europe:
— Sander van Hooft (@SandervHooft) August 19, 2019
Just discovered "valet share --region=eu".
Ngrok seems to default to the US region otherwise. Major speed improvement.
Link – – www.helenanderson.co.nz
CASE is SQLs answer to other programming languages IF-ELSE statement. If you need to test a condition and return a value CASE is the expression you need.
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From time to time our team needs to create fairly complicated CRUD interfaces from scratch. While this isn't rocket science, there surprisingly aren't that many good resource out there on how to do this. That's why our team dove in and published a couple of packages that can help create modern CRUD…
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I just found out that a recent version of #Laravel Valet introduced a "valet use php@version" command. Make sure you upgrade Valet to get this functionality. ? pic.twitter.com/JW99xfJNNb
— Kevin McKee (@iAmKevinMcKee) August 12, 2019
Link – – ohdear.app
You can use the Oh Dear! API to automatically perform health checks on your app after a deploy.
You can use our API to trigger an on demand run of both the uptime check and the broken links checker. If you add this to, say, your deploy script, you can have near-instant validation that your deploy succeeded and didn't break any links & pages.
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