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How Long Can You Buy A Domain Name For?

How long do you have to buy a domain name before it expires? If you need the answer to that question...

Kerry Owston

Marketing | Domains

8 Ways to Choose the Best Domain Name

Choosing the right domain name for your website can be difficult. You want to choose a good one that...

Kerry Owston

Design | Development | Tools

Setting up a new Mac checklist (2021 Edition)

Whenever I get a new Mac or decide to wipe it and start afresh the following are my go-to tools and...

David Carr

Development | Tutorials | Laravel Framework | Packages

Integrate Laravel with Xero

I've created a video showing how to integrate Laravel with Xero using my Laravel Xero package

David Carr

Tools

Easily switch PHP versions with PHP Monitor

When you have multiple versions of PHP installed you may want to switch which version is being...

David Carr

Laravel Livewire | Laravel Framework | Tutorials

Laravel Livewire testing download

Testing Laravel Livewire downloads an expected download by comparing the download name with a respon...

David Carr

Tutorials | Javascript | Laravel Framework

Import SweetAlert2 into Laravel with NPM

SweetAlert2 is a great package for user-friendly alerts, normally I install by adding in script tags...

David Carr

Tutorials | Laravel Framework | Packages

Login with Microsoft Graph

In this post, I'll explain the process of using Microsoft Graph as a login process to allow user...

David Carr

Design | Development | Tools

Released Tailwindcss Admin theme

I've released a new Tailwindcss based theme for admin style applications, the theme is in pure H...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Packages

Laravel Sent Emails Package

I've released a new package for recording and displaying sent emails from Laravel applications....

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Packages

Laravel Blade Components Package

I've released a blade components package. Components can be made in projects easily enough bu...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Packages

Laravel load anonymous components from packages

From Laravel 7, blade components are included. You may want to use these in packages and load a...

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

ASCII to Binary in PHP

Recently I inherited a project where all file attachments were stored in a database table in the for...

David Carr

Tools

My favourite VS Code extensions

The following are the extensions I always install on VS Code, these are my preferred themes, snippet...

David Carr

Development | Tools

My Mac Development Tools

What I use for day to day software development, communication and workflow.

David Carr

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