Retiring Laravel Azure Storage
24th March 2024 4:30 pm
Today I abandoned my most popular open source package, Laravel Azure Storage . According to Packagist, it's been installed nearly two million times down the years, and it has 22…
Hi, I'm Matthew Daly.
I'm a web developer, and have worked in the industry for about a decade now. I live in Norfolk and work in Norwich (except during lockdown, when I've been working from home).
Right now, I work primarily with Laravel and React.js, and on maintaining and migrating a legacy Zend 1 project. I've also worked with Django, Angular 1, CodeIgniter, Backbone.js, Vue.js, and Phonegap in the past.
I blog about the challenges of and solutions for dealing with legacy code, web app performance, modern PHP and Javascript development, and anything else I find interesting.
You can find me on Twitter, Mastodon and GitHub
Recent posts
Why I haven't posted much this year
26th August 2023 6:39 pm
If you regularly read this blog, you may have noticed that I haven't posted much this year. There's a reason for this - a lot of my spare time has been taken up working on a new…
Why (nearly) every PHP class you write should be abstract or final
13th August 2023 3:00 pm
If your introduction to object-oriented PHP was anything like mine, inheritance was probably touted as one of the biggest advantages. It allowed you to easily extend existing code…
Two techniques for handling recursive relationships in MySQL
18th December 2022 2:15 pm
When modelling users in a hierarchical organization, it's common to need to retrieve the line manager or subordinates of a given user. In MySQL, two of the techniques that can be…
What I think ChatGPT means for developers
11th December 2022 7:20 pm
I'm sure you've heard some of the buzz about ChatGPT . There's been examples of it creating a working Wordpress plugin on demand , recreating the Apple website , acting as a…