Posts by author: David Carr

Development | Nova Framework | Tools

Catch emails when in development using Mailtrap fake smtp testing server

During the development phase it’s important to test sending emails without sending to end user...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | SEO

Worldwide mobile usage takes over desktop usage for the first time!

Stat counter have accounted mobile and tablet internet usage exceeds desktop for first time worldwid...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | Tools

Wakatime - record time spent coding automatically

For quite sometime I’ve been using wakatime, a tool that integrates with lots of IDE’s a...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | Tools

Front-End Tooling Survey 2016

Today I received an email inviting me to take part in a front end tooling survey, which I of course...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

API | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Post to Slack using the incoming webhooks API

Slack is a great tool for teams I use it to communicate with the rest of my team, recently I’v...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | Nova Framework

Install PHP INTL on Mac using HomeBrew

Mac’s come with PHP installed but they don’t come with the PHP extension INTL installed....
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL | Tools

How to use Github Hooks to send updates to your website

For anyone that uses Github know’s how useful it is, especially on the collaboration front. Al...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development

Get involved in open source with Github's Hacktoberfest

Want to get involved with open source and contribute but don’t know where to start? Good new G...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Personal

How many KCOM engineers does it take to install Lightstream in one flat?

I can’t tell you, so far I’ve counted 6 and yet still my property is yet to be connected...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

PHP reverse date using strtotime

I use datepickers a lot in my projects the date’s default to the American YYYY-MM-DD format so...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development

Changing default mysql password for MySQL 5.7 on a Mac

Today’s I’ve reinstalled my os and decided to install mysql in terminal I didn’t m...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development

Open current terminal directory in Sublime Text

Being able to open the current directory from terminal in Sublime Text is very useful, I’ve se...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework

Installing Laravel installer globally on Mac

Laravel comes with a handy command line installer, once installed can be ran anywhere from terminal...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Installing php 7 on Mac

Setting up a mac to run php 7 instead of the default php 5.5.
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development

PHP 5.5 is now end of live, upgrade to 5.6 or higher.

As of the 10th July 2016 php 5.5 is officially end of life, as a result it should not be used a...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

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