Cheaper Servers, Mail Templates and Quick Tips

Laravel has a useful Notification system, where you can notify user about something via email, Slack etc. And there is a quite good default HTML template for emails. But what if you want to customize its design? Let’s remind ourselves how to send this email.

Last week, we shared our 2018 roadmap preview and today, we’re excited to announce the first of many new updates for developers: new Droplet plans.

Working on a project where I wanted to have our customers digitally sign a contract, but we wanted to confirm the name they input matches the name in the database. Laravel has a really nice way to do this without manually matching strings. How old school is that.

For some applications, you may be required to use third-party services or API’s to pull some data, transform that data into the desired response and then deliver it to your client interface.

One of my resolutions for 2017 was to redesign my blog. One week before the new year I faced myself with the challenge and thought to myself if this was still doable. Somehow I managed it and here it is.

Easy Laravel application management. Laravel Kit is an open source application which can execute almost all Laravel Artisan commands without using any terminal.

This middleware allows the application to capture uploaded files and temporarily store them just-in-case the form validation redirects back otherwise loosing the files before your controler could process them.

This whole tutorial series: API Driven Development With Laravel and VueJS has been focused on building a single page application with VueJS that’s powered by an API with Laravel. We’ve gone through a variety of requests, but what we haven’t touched on is file uploading.

The first release of 2018 comes with a bunch of additions, changes and bug fixes.

I'm currently building a webapp named Oh Dear: an easy to use and beautiful website monitor. It has recently gone into it's beta phase. At the moment of writing everybody can register a new account. After you've registered you'll start your trial period of 10 days.

You’ve probably cached some model data in the controller before, but I am going to show you a Laravel model caching technique that’s a little more granular using Active Record models. This is a technique I originally learned about on RailsCasts.

A powerful feature that came out with Laravel v5.3 was Laravel Notifications. There are several numbers of notification channels created by the contributors in a github organization called laravel-notification-channels.

This is the first part of a series of tutorials by Michael Heap, covering how to build a multi-channel help desk system with Laravel.

I have yet to talk to a developer that has told me that they were purposefully writing bad software. I think this is something that is part of being a developer, that you write software that is as good as you can possibly make it within the constraints that you have.