David Carr - Laravel Developer

Hi, I’m David Carr

A Senior Full Stack Engineer at International Workplace
I love to use the TALL stack (Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js, Laravel, and Laravel Livewire)

I enjoy writing tutorials and working on Open Source packages.
I also write books. I'm writing a new book Laravel Testing Cookbook, This book focuses on testing coving both PestPHP and PHPUnit.

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Laravel Framework

Image intervention - Image source not readable

When using intervention package for uploading images you may come across this error when upload...

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BitBucket

Fatal: Authentication failed (on git push)

Lost authentication from BitBucket resulting in invalid credentials....

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Personal

50% off Modular Laravel book until April 17th

It's my birthday on April 15th to celebrate I'm giving 50% off my book Modular Laravel...

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Laravel Framework | Tutorials

Testing dynamic file uploads with Laravel

When working with file uploads where the file name is generated, how do you know what the file name...

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Packages | Laravel Framework

New Laravel Package: Laravel Module Generator

I've been working on a new package for a few weeks, this goes hand in hand with Laravel Modules,...

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Development

Laravel Modules new docs website

I've recently started helping Nicolas Widart with his awesome package Laravel Modules I've...

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Tools | Development

Best productivity app for mac: Alfred

One of the first apps I install on a fresh mac is an app called Alfred https://www.alfredapp.com/. F...

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Books

New book: Laravel The Modular Way

For years I've built Laravel applications using Laravel modules. I prefer to use laravel modules...

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Tools

View calenders in Terminal using built-in commands

This tweet introduces how to show a calendar in a terminal, very neat!

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Design | Tools

10 Best Bootstrap Free and Premium Admin Panels in 2021

Dashboards are an essential part of every web application. A good dashboard can help an organization...

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Tutorials | Laravel Framework

Using Laravel's withCount to count a sub query

When you need to could a sub query Laravel provides a useful withCount method that is perfect.

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Tutorials | PHP & MySQL | Laravel Framework | Laravel Livewire

Laravel Livewire update dependent select menu's on change

Since Livewire is reactive, it's easy to hide or show select menu's based on whether another...

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API | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Create Bitly short links with PHP

Bitly is a great tool for creating short links, in this post we will use their API to generate links...

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Tutorials | Laravel Framework | Tests | PHPUnit

Testing Blade components in Laravel

Laravel provides a range of methods to test parts of the framework, one of which is called blade() w...

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PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

How to rebuild search indexes on a table.

If you make server changes that could affect your indexes then you will need to rebuild your in...

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