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Beginner Guides

The following is a collection of useful starter guides and tutorials.
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Development

Using filters with Heidisql

This week I've been using a Windows machine to that end I needed to use a MySQL client I prefer...
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Personal

A week without my Mac

Recently the battery on my Mac has deteriorated a lot, to the point where it lasts only an hour or t...
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David Carr

Development | Design | Tools

Vivaldi - Taking the new browser for a spin

Started using the new web browser, here’s a few observations, nice features and things that co...
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David Carr

Development | Design | Tools

Vivaldi a new browser from Ex-Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner

Today a brand new web browser has been relased named Vivaldi https://vivaldi.com/ currentl...
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David Carr

Development | Design | Tools

Weekly tech newsletters

Keeping to up date with the tech industry is hard work, every week new libraries, tools and framewor...
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Nova Framework

Mini Course - Build a blog with Simple MVC Framework

I recently recorded a 6 part series on creating a blog using Simple MVC Framework This ser...
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David Carr

Design

5 Free Bootstrap Responsive Templates on Themifycloud

In this article we have gathered 5 Bootstrap 3 layouts for you to unreservedly use in your next task...
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David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Upload multiple files with a single input with HTML 5 and PHP

HTML 5 makes it possible to upload multiple files using a single input thanks for a new multiple att...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Select previous and next rows in MySQL

Selecting previous and next rows based on the current row is a common task in most web applications,...
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David Carr

Reviews | Development | Tools

My TOP Sublime Text plugins

My favourite editor is Sublime Text I've tried other editors, no other editor can complete with...
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David Carr

Social Media | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Backup to Dropbox with PHP

Recently I've been looking into Dropbox's API so I decided to have a go at building an appli...
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David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Running mysqldump with PHP

Every project should have regular backups. Writing database tables to a file using PHP while possibl...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Using closures and $this within a class with PHP

Closures are really useful, especially for creating plugins when a full blown controller is not need...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Get initials from a name

Here is a simple way to collect the first letter of each word, This can be useful to get say a perso...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

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