Tools

My PhpStorm Setup

I've documented my PhpStorm setup, what theme I use, plugins, and keybindings.
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

VIM shortcuts

There are multiple modes in vim, normal mode is loaded by default...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Laravel Livewire | Packages

Laravel Extract Language to lang files

If you've already used JSON lang in your views, here's a handy package to extract all lang k...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Books

I'm writing a new Laravel book on testing called Laravel Testing Cookbook

Laravel Testing Cookbook will cover common use cases and will be ready in a few months time. Sign up...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework

Adding pinned posts with Laravel

Let's say you have a blog and have posts ordered by their published date. Later you decide you w...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Laravel Livewire

Laravel Livewire Resources

A collection of tools, packages and courses
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | CKEditor | Packages | Tools

Upload images in Ckeditor 5 with Laravel

CKeditor 5 out of the box does not come with upload capabilities. Uploading is supported with its pl...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Personal

Dev Retro 2022 - My reflections

In this post, I want to reflect on my journey as a developer over the last year.
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tools

Setup Jira for managing scrum Sprints from scratch

Working in a team that does agile development is a great way to build software, but it can be tricky...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

PHP & MySQL

PHP Generate a UL menu from an array

Take an array and build a menu UL list from it. The array should support top-level as well as child...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Marketing | SEO

Write an SEO-friendly title: A quick start guide

Titles need to be reader & search engine friendly so how do you strike the perfect bal...

Kerry Owston

PHP & MySQL

Use PHP to generate table of contents from heading tags

I wanted to create a table of contents from the post's heading tags automatically without having...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tools

Running Docker on M1 Mac - docker: compose is not a docker

When upgrading from an Intel mac to an Apple Silicone I noticed docker fails to run. I'm using L...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Packages

Using Laravel Sail alongside PhpStorm

I'm trying out Laravel Sail for my local development, this post serves as documenting the proces...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Stripe API | Laravel Framework

Handle Stripe checkout webhooks

Continuing on from my last post Sell products with Stripe let's first setup a webhook...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

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