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Laravel Framework

Adding pinned posts with Laravel

Let's say you have a blog and have posts ordered by their published date. Later you decide you w...

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Laravel Livewire | Laravel Framework

Laravel Livewire Resources

A collection of tools, packages and courses

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Packages | Laravel Framework | Tools

Upload images in Ckeditor 5 with Laravel

CKeditor 5 out of the box does not come with upload capabilities. Uploading is supported with its pl...

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Personal

Dev Retro 2022 - My reflections

In this post, I want to reflect on my journey as a developer over the last year.

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Tools

Setup Jira for managing scrum Sprints from scratch

Working in a team that does agile development is a great way to build software, but it can be tricky...

David Carr

PHP & MySQL

PHP Generate a UL menu from an array

Take an array and build a menu UL list from it. The array should support top-level as well as child...

David Carr

Marketing | SEO

Write an SEO-friendly title: A quick start guide

Titles need to be reader & search engine friendly so how do you strike the perfect bal...

Kerry Owston

PHP & MySQL

Use PHP to generate table of contents from heading tags

I wanted to create a table of contents from the post's heading tags automatically without having...

David Carr

Tools

Running Docker on M1 Mac - docker: compose is not a docker

When upgrading from an Intel mac to an Apple Silicone I noticed docker fails to run. I'm using L...

David Carr

Packages | Laravel Framework

Using Laravel Sail alongside PhpStorm

I'm trying out Laravel Sail for my local development, this post serves as documenting the proces...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Stripe API

Handle Stripe checkout webhooks

Continuing on from my last post Sell products with Stripe let's first setup a webhook...

David Carr

Content Marketing | Marketing

The New Reality of AI-Generated Content Creation

There's no denying that AI-generated content has the potential to be a game-changer.

Kerry Owston

Stripe API | Laravel Framework

Sell products with Stripe

In this tutorial, I will cover how to use Stripe to take payment for products.

David Carr

Laravel Framework

Laravel update factory after creation

Using a Laravel factory to create a user and then update a relationship directly is possible using f...

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Tutorials | Laravel Framework

Laravel boot multiple traits

Laravel supports a bootTraitName to allow multiple traits to be bootable.

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