ETag's and Conditional GET's in Laravel 4
Mar 03, 2013
I've begun integrated ETag's into a Laravel 4 API application. I've started by implementing Conditonal GETs.
Mar 03, 2013
I've begun integrated ETag's into a Laravel 4 API application. I've started by implementing Conditonal GETs.
Mar 01, 2013
I've been scouring the internet for good information on setting up user and group permissions for Apache. I'll link some resources on the bottom here, but here's what I found:
Feb 26, 2013
@fideloper the latter and hope I don't have to use reflection to mock a private/protected method
Feb 16, 2013
I last wrote about ETags in context of Conditional GETs, which allow a server to see if a resource has been modified since the last time a client checked. If it has not been modified, the server can return a 304 Not Modified
response.
Feb 10, 2013
My curiosity about ETags (Entity Tags) was first piqued when reading over Github's API documentation. Looking into them, I saw that there explanation often pointed to them as a "cacheing" mechanism.
Feb 05, 2013
In looking to build a RESTful API, an important consideration is how to handle errors. Most errors are displayed to users in HTML, as these are web applications. However, API's need some special care.
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.