Laravel Daily #33: Laravel Exam, Vue 2 and GitHub vs BitBucket

How well do you know Laravel? Test your knowledge.

So you're using laravel's query builder to get all orders that belong to a specific branch, but you want to allow the user to filter the results by customer only if he wants to, so you do this...

Dayle Rees today launched his newest Laravel book, Code Smart.

This guide will show you how to setup a new project using Ember and Laravel, JSON-API and token based authentication.  The deployed version of your application will be a Laravel backend which serves up the Ember frontend using a Laravel route.

Recently, Mandrill announced that they'd be sunsetting their transactional email service and instead rolling it in to a secondary service for paid MailChimp users.

We all use Laravels Validation feature to ensure we have the required input and it matches some sort of rule. The available rules cover plenty of situations but they fail to cover one of the most important rules, input Sanitization.

Wanna learn everything about Laravel, AJAX, jQuery and front-end components? This new book is for you!

Topics: PHP Laravel Tags: Tutorials Laravel 5 Laravel 5.1 Laravel 5.

Today we released a new major version of our laravel-newsletter package. This package makes it easy to integrate MailChimp in your Laravel app. Under the hood V3 of the MailChimp API is used.

I’ve used Mandrill for as long as I can remember. It sends transactional email, like the kind you receive when you sign up for a new account. Like me, many have been happy to use a free account for sending a relatively low number of emails a month.

A new project to keep an eye on latest Laravel versions and commits.

Evan You just announced the first public preview of Vue 2. (seriously? V2 already?)

Listicles like these do work – not only do they attract attention, if the content is also valuable (and in this case it is, trust me), the article format can be extremely entertaining. This article will bring you 10 SQL tricks that many of you might not have thought were possible.

PHP 7 changes the way errors and exceptions are reported by PHP. There is a new Throwable base interface for any object that can be thrown via a throw statement.

If you've been following the development of office communication tools in the past year or so, I'm sure you've heard plenty about Slack.

Earlier this month we hosted an AWS 101 webinar in which we did a live walk-through showing you how easy it is to get up and running with your PHP applications on AWS. If you missed it or want to re-watch, you can find it here. There are many options for deploying PHP applications on AWS.

This one started in a peculiar way. Paul M. Jones announced a new version of his Producer tool, I had a look at it and saw that it recommended having a changelog called CHANGES.md by default. This irked me a bit because I always use CHANGELOG.

This article is promoting a product of a commercial company that is supporting this blog. By now every software developer should know what a version control system is. But let me explain what it is from my point of view just in case you are not aware or you have a different view.

As a company grows, people and projects change. To continue to nurture the culture we want at GitHub, we've found it useful to remind ourselves what we aim for when we communicate. We recently introduced these guidelines to help us be our best selves when we collaborate on pull requests.