I created this package to ‘scratch my own itch’. I have a model called Order. I wanted to notify certain people (only people who were watching the order) when the status of the order changed. In this article, I will give you some boilerplate code that you can use in your application to wrap around […]
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Yesterday I attended my first meetup event in Dubai. Given the recent work I am doing on our own Analytics and the event was titled ‘Web Analytics Wednesday!’, I thought it would be a good one to start with. The event is on Meetup.com and can be found under ‘Dubai Digital & Tech‘. Dubai Digital & […]
Read MoreA simple tool to help you decide. Source: Do You Really Need to Hold That Meeting?
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Quite frankly one of the most interesting people I have ever listened to. I have a couple of books by Simon Sinek after I came across his video on TED Talks about ‘How great leaders inspire action‘. The below video is an excerpt from a longer video where he was a guest on Inside Quest. I have linked to […]
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I am working on a tool at the moment which is built on top of Codebase. I am going to blog later in more detail about this tool. For now, I want to touch on a specific Laravel issue I had yesterday. We also use TeamWeek to plan on a more top level. TeamWeek enables us to […]
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Last week I stumbled across the new facebook.design domain which seems to be a collection of articles, videos, and resources made by designers at Facebook. It’s a great resource to add to your bookmarks. I particularly like facebook.design/devices where you will find a gallery of Images and Sketch files of popular devices. http://facebook.design
Read MoreI stumbled across Grammarly, I actually think it was a Facebook Ad of all things. I liked the idea of adding the Chrome browser extension because it would mean that I could use it for nearly everything that I do day to day. So far my experience has been good and so I thought it would be worth […]
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UPDATE Originally Taylor tried to ‘lookup’ the operating system you were using and then use the correct command. Unfortunately, this broke things for other users so he had to roll it back. So he has now included a config option I have been meaning to try Laravel Envoyer for some time now. At work we have a […]
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I am sure many of you who follow Laravel will know that it was Laracon US just a few weeks ago (July 27-29, 2016 in Louisville, Kentucky). I purchased a live streaming ticket because I was unable to attend the conference this year. The website that is hosting the video has just released all the videos for […]
Read MoreShared by my good friend Anthony Sterling the other day on twitter, this is a really interesting talk that gets you thinking!
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