Posts by author: David Carr

Development | Tools

PHP Code Snippets - relaunched

PHP Code Snippets, is a members based site. Anyone can join and add their own code snippets, Snippet...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tools

My favourite Evernote feature on a iPhone

I love using Evernote it's my go to app for jotting down my thoughts and documenting meetings wi...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Reviews | Development | Design | Tools

Unheap - A tidy repository of jQuery plugins

Today I came across unheap.com a fantastic site featuring 980 jQuery plugins (at the time of writing...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | Tools

Otto the successor to Vagrant (portable development environments)

HashiCorp the company behind the hugely successful portable development environments software Vagran...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Leverage PHP to decrease page load times

Increase your page speed by merging your various css and js files into a single css and js file.....
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Javascript | Demos | Tutorials

Duplicate form sections with jQuery

When working with forms it can be incredibly useful to duplicate parts of the form, for instance whe...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | Tools

Language tends on Github for 2015

Github has posted an article on the popularity tends for languages on Github since 2008.
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL | Tools

Sending emails with PHPMailer and Mandrill

Sending emails with PHP’s mail function is not recommended it’s not reliable and hard to...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | Tools

Useful Google Chrome Tips

Google Chrome has lots of hidden options, the following tips are some of my favourites.
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Create a list of items from a folder using scandir

Quick tip to create a list page that will read the files from a directory and link to them is super...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Reviews | Development

Book Review: Building Secure PHP Apps

I’ve just finished reading Building Secure PHP Apps by Ben Edmunds. A securi...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Reading markdown files with parsedown

Read me files on GitHub are written in Markdown, I wanted to be able to grab the contents of a...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Scraping GitHub

For an upcoming project I need to be able to dynamically get information about a GitHub repository s...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

comparing multiple values against in_array

PHP's in_array is useful to determine if an item is in an array but when needing to compare...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Using Premailer to convert styles to inline styles for HTML emails automatically with PHP

Sending HTML emails can be tricky, not all mail clients support the same css. Most ignore external s...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

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