Laravel 4 Uber-Quick-Start (With auth!) Guide
Jan 29, 2013
Here's how to get started really quickly with Laravel 4. Updated since Laravel 4's official release!
Jan 29, 2013
Here's how to get started really quickly with Laravel 4. Updated since Laravel 4's official release!
Jan 27, 2013
If you make judicious use of IoC containers (and Dependency Injection), you'll likely end up with lots of Bindings, some of which may look like:
Jan 27, 2013
I like to create my own library for any application. Similarly, I like keeping the "models" directory clean - I only add Laravel classes (Usually Eloquent instances) inside of the "model" folder.
Jan 22, 2013
Laravel encapsulates HTTP requests and responses within PHP objects. As you likely know, the HTTP core of Laravel revolves around Symfony's HTTPFoundation component.
Jan 21, 2013
Laravel uses Exceptions for error handling. This includes both HTTP error codes and application (run-time) errors.
Jan 14, 2013
Quick (and dirty) tip:
Jan 06, 2013
For desktop, I love native apps - They run smoothly, they have great OS integrations, and they often get away with a polish impossible on the web.
Jan 03, 2013
Ubuntu has an OS targeted for smart phones. After my initial excitement at the prospect of having an OS I could really nerd out on (Really hoping for a Terminal app), I realized one thing: I don't use any of Ubuntu's graphical tools.
Jan 03, 2013
Last week, during our break, we switched from a hosted Exchange service to Google Enterprise. The main driver to change was lack of space - some of us have emails going back 7 years and have accrued many gigabytes of data. Adding more available space was getting too costly.
Dec 31, 2012
Frameworks provide a tool for rapid application development, but often accrue technical debt as rapidly as they allow you to create functionality.
Dec 26, 2012
Does your business scale? Does your platform scale? Do you scale? What is scale?
Dec 17, 2012
Using Tasksel and installing the lamp-server package still gives you php 5.3. Here's how to install a LAMP server with php 5.5.
Dec 02, 2012
If you need or want a great full-text search engine, and you decide on Sphinx Search, here's how to install it on Ubuntu. I'm using 12.04 LTS Ubuntu Server.
Nov 29, 2012
Nov 21, 2012