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HEY Bloggers - a Hull and East Yorkshire networking event for Bloggers and Creatives

HEY Bloggers - a Hull and East Yorkshire networking event for Bloggers and Creatives

I recently learned about a launch event for HEY Bloggers, a networking event for bloggers and creati...

26th Jul 2018 10:39 PM

Get involved and help the NHS with The Humber Care Tech Challenge

Networking | Development

Get involved and help the NHS with The Humber Care Tech Challenge

The NHS are looking for ways to bring technology into homes to aid better care and support for vulne...

26th Jul 2018 09:57 PM

Is GDPR set to be the death of WHOIS?

Is GDPR set to be the death of WHOIS?

Domain registrars are getting scared. Understandably so as the threat of hefty fines for not meeting...

5th Jul 2018 08:54 PM

Get premium keyword research without the price tag

Get premium keyword research without the price tag

If your trying to be found in Search engines your going to need to invest some time into keyword res...

1st Jul 2018 08:17 PM

Eliminate SEO errors from your website with these 3 tactics

Eliminate SEO errors from your website with these 3 tactics

SEO can be tricky, sometimes it can feel like everything is done right but still your website is not...

30th Jun 2018 08:58 PM

Creating a blog from scratch with PHP - Part 8 Tags Sidebar

Demos | Blog | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Creating a blog from scratch with PHP - Part 8 Tags Sidebar

In the last tutorial we created the ability for having tags for each post, this part will conti...

31st May 2018 09:45 PM

Creating a blog from scratch with PHP - Part 7 Tags

Demos | Blog | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Creating a blog from scratch with PHP - Part 7 Tags

In this part, I will explain how to add the ability to add tags the posts, how to display them and s...

28th May 2018 04:13 PM

Support me, become a Patreon!

Support me, become a Patreon!

I've joined patreon.com if you've ever wanted to help support my blog and efforts...

27th May 2018 02:19 PM

Stripe change pay panel label

Stripe change pay panel label

When using Stripe's connect js you may want to change the button text both on the main button an...

24th May 2018 02:58 PM

GitHub use a single SSH key for all repositories

GitHub use a single SSH key for all repositories

When using SSH with GitHub you'll often need to add deploy keys to the repo to allow read a...

4th Apr 2018 12:11 PM

How Laravel's optional() helper can keep your pages running

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

How Laravel's optional() helper can keep your pages running

If you've ever used Laravel ORM to create a relationship between tables you will have come acros...

31st Mar 2018 09:29 AM

Laravel Importing SQL dumps with seeds

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel Importing SQL dumps with seeds

Seeding with Laravel is really useful for populating the database for instance a typical u...

30th Mar 2018 07:05 PM

My top VS Code Extensions (Plugins)

My top VS Code Extensions (Plugins)

I've recently switched from using Submit Text full time to VS Code, I'm really enjoying the...

14th Feb 2018 11:37 PM

Laravel apply a query constraint with global scopes

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel apply a query constraint with global scopes

Imagine your building a multi-tenancy application, in your controller your using a Contacts model ev...

9th Feb 2018 06:52 AM

Laravel set default value for creating model instances

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel set default value for creating model instances

Often when creating records with the ORM you'll set the same keys every time, in this cases you...

8th Feb 2018 10:53 PM

Financial year select menu

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Financial year select menu

Financial years start from April to March, a common requirement is to be able to select a financial...

8th Feb 2018 09:38 PM

Regular expression to convert usernames into links like Twitter

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Regular expression to convert usernames into links like Twitter

When using plain textareas it's useful to link usernames in the format as @name but wo...

8th Feb 2018 08:54 PM

A Brief Introduction to Gulp

Javascript | Tutorials

A Brief Introduction to Gulp

Gulp is a frontend task manager. In the simplest of terms, it is a tool which saves you from perform...

8th Feb 2018 07:09 PM

Laravel storing mailables

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel storing mailables

Laravel's Mailable emails are perfect for sending rich HTML emails, there are times when you nee...

8th Feb 2018 05:43 PM

Laravel retrieving records in a random order

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel retrieving records in a random order

Retrieving records in a random order is simple with MySQL using the RAND() function but it's not...

25th Jan 2018 02:25 PM

Laravel show zeros when using zerofill in Eloquent

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel show zeros when using zerofill in Eloquent

When using Eloquent leading zeros are removed from integers data types. This is a problem when you w...

25th Jan 2018 02:23 PM

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