2nd January 2018 12:01 pm

Recently I've been building and publishing a significant number of Laravel packages, and I thought I'd share details of some of them over…

1st January 2018 4:06 pm

While the documentation for creating Artisan tasks is generally pretty good, it doesn't really touch on creating tasks that generate new…

29th December 2017 6:01 pm

For many applications, using UUID's as the primary keys on a database table can make a lot of sense. For mobile or offline apps, in…

2nd December 2017 11:30 pm

I've touched on using PostgreSQL to implement fuzzy search with Laravel before , but another type of search that PostgreSQL can handle…

28th November 2017 11:40 am

While PHPUnit is my normal go-to PHP testing framework, for some applications I find PHPSpec superior, in particular REST API clients. I…