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Need place holder images for a new design? Placeholder is perfect for the job

Tools | Development | Design

Need place holder images for a new design? Placeholder is perfect for the job

When prototyping a new layout its convenient to use placeholder images then it i...

26th May 2019 03:05 PM

Laravel Module routes list

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel Module routes list

I build all my projects with modules. There are times it would be useful to see all routes but...

26th May 2019 12:20 PM

Mask a .php page with Mod Rewrite

Htaccess | Tutorials

Mask a .php page with Mod Rewrite

Let's say you have a static website with various PHP files. These form the URL such as domains.c...

20th May 2019 02:57 PM

Formatting dates to use timezone

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Formatting dates to use timezone

Working with dates can get complicated when you need a time to change depending on the time of year...

16th May 2019 04:20 PM

Laravel download base64 encoded files

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel download base64 encoded files

Laravel has the ability to stream files from disc and remove them as soon as they've been downlo...

10th Apr 2019 10:43 AM

strtotime Add Two Working Days

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

strtotime Add Two Working Days

There are times you want to add days to a date but only working days, so weekends are ignored.

12th Mar 2019 10:15 AM

Crontab command to delete itself

Tutorials | Development

Crontab command to delete itself

I was asked today can you run a cronjob only once. My initial answer was no you cannot as the least...

24th Feb 2019 06:19 PM

Laravel download files from a route

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel download files from a route

Laravel makes downloading a server file very easy, in this post I'm going to show a way to downl...

5th Feb 2019 07:26 AM

Creating a blog from scratch with PHP - Part 9 Cover Image

Demos | Blog | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Creating a blog from scratch with PHP - Part 9 Cover Image

In this part, we will add a cover photo to the blog posts.

4th Feb 2019 10:48 PM

Dealing with posting large number of checkboxes

Javascript | HTML | Tutorials

Dealing with posting large number of checkboxes

When you have a form with lots of checkboxes, you may hit a limit to how many you can post. I had th...

31st Jan 2019 08:51 AM

Export to CSV

Export to CSV

Today I've released a new PHP package for exporting array data to a CSV file. Often data ne...

21st Dec 2018 12:18 AM

Announcing DC Casts

Announcing DC Casts

In the new year DC Casts will be launched, a video site for teaching web development.

18th Dec 2018 08:10 PM

Pick up my book Beginning PHP for a fiver

Pick up my book Beginning PHP for a fiver

My Book Beginning PHP is now just $5 to buy from PacktPub Learn all the fundamentals of PHP with...

18th Dec 2018 07:46 PM

Install Let’s Encrypt Free SSL Wildcard Certificate on ubuntu 18

Tutorials | Ubuntu | Development

Install Let’s Encrypt Free SSL Wildcard Certificate on ubuntu 18

If you want a quick solution for adding SSL/TLS to your website, then you should definitely go ahead...

Lakin Mohapatra

17th Dec 2018 09:00 AM

Training resources I've used over the last 12 months

Tools | Development

Training resources I've used over the last 12 months

At work we recently created a survey to find out what training staff had received in the last 12 mon...

13th Dec 2018 12:56 PM

From Cooking to Coding

Personal | Development

From Cooking to Coding

The alliteration is the only thing these two professions have in common with one another, yet I mana...

7th Dec 2018 10:21 PM

Talk: Integrating Microsoft Graph API with Laravel

Microsoft Graph API | Packages | Laravel Framework | Public Speaking

Talk: Integrating Microsoft Graph API with Laravel

On the 12th of November 2018, I gave a talk on Microsoft Graph API and integrating it with Laravel&n...

15th Nov 2018 01:42 PM

Laravel package MsGraph

Microsoft Graph API | Packages | Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL

Laravel package MsGraph

I've released a new Laravel package called MsGraph that's essentially a wrapper fo...

6th Nov 2018 12:58 PM

Fixing ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock'

Fixing ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock'

I had a crash after a reboot, then MySQL would not run, the error I was getting was: ERROR 2002...

2nd Nov 2018 03:56 PM

Essential Laravel Packages

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Essential Laravel Packages

Laravel comes with a lot out the box, however, you'll often add third-party packages to add extr...

2nd Nov 2018 03:09 PM

Setting up a new mac checklist

Tools | Development

Setting up a new mac checklist

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

2nd Nov 2018 12:43 PM

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