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Laravel has been one of the few new tools that have truly inspired me to create. I never went to school for “computer science” and am self-taught when it comes to web development. I tend to take a common-sense approach to problems and thus far have solved some decently complex problems and learned from them….
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I recently updated my MacBook Pro to OSX 10.10 Yosemite and unlike my work computer, I had some issues. I decided to also upgrade MAMP while I was at it to version 3.0.7 and this fixed the issue I was having but also caused some other issues with Command-line PHP. Once I confirmed that the…
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I like to use MAMP for my local development mostly because it’s fast and simple to use. I came across an issue while attempting to use Laravels Tinker feature that is based off Boris. I did some searching and found out that it had to do with the fact that MAMP does not include the…
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I love OSX, but I always hated setting up a new system. OSX does very little to empower developers these days. I know I could use Docker or some VM to run my development but I have never had issues syncing my local development with my server environment. I feel like a lot of those…
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As I have moved over to a VPS server in the past 6 months I have run up against the paranoia of “is my server still running?” I had been using pingdom.com, a great service that pings a site every couple of minutes and notifies you of an outage. This was great when I was on a…
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Building a VPS is a lot like planning the foundation to your home, you need to have everything done correctly before you can start building up. I chose a base install of Ubuntu Server 12.10, and knew that I needed at a minimum a LAMP server. But there are a number of other tools that are needed…
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Lately at work, we have been using SASS for our new web app Inkdit. Sass has been a blessing as well as a curse. Aside from the benefits of SASS, we have been using another extension of SASS called SCSS, Read more on the benefits of SASS here. But the one thing that Sublime Text…
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If you are doing any work with a database you probably have used phpMyAdmin. It is an excellent tool, and for a lot of tasks, I prefer to use it. But when it comes down to QA or debugging of data on an established database I like to use an application. For the Mac, I…
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This is a tutorial more or less on principles for sessions with PHP. It’s more about the big picture and meant as a stepping stone for further exploration. The principal behind a user login is simple, Don’t show private or secured information to non-members. By using sessions you can: Secure content from others. Show custom…
Adam Patterson
