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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Javascript | HTML | Tutorials

Filter FullCalendar and DataTables

This guide will provide an outline on integrating a set of input filters with an instance of FullCal...

Dan Sherwood

Design | Tutorials | CSS

Push content to bottom of card

Want to make sure some card content is always at the bottom of their parent cards? Read on to see ho...

Dan Sherwood

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Robust CSV export

This article will show you how to export data to a CSV format inside a PHP based project. 

Dan Sherwood

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Format Xero dates from the API

Dates in Xero that are not already set to a datestring are in a format like Date(1518685950940+0000)

David Carr

Bash | Tutorials

Copy SSH key onto remote server

Setting up a new project or starting work on a project which is new to you? Read on to discover the...

Dan Sherwood

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL | Laravel Framework

Get the last day of the month from a date

To get the last day of the month use date('t')

David Carr

Bash | Tutorials | Tests | PHPUnit

Run tests on commit

Run your tests every time you commit changes.

David Carr

Development | Tools

Add Laravel Valet certificate to Postman

When working with Postman on a local API served via Valet, you may run into the issue shown above, S...

Dan Sherwood

Tools | Marketing | Domains | Hosting

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

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