Business Over Technology
I recently had the opportunity to share about technical leadership at EE CONF in Denver, CO. Most of the attendees of my talk were agency owners with at least half having done development in a ...
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Thumbsnag
Today I am releasing my first ever open source package, Thumbsnag, on GitHub. https://github.com/gstjohn/Thumbsnag Thumbsnag came about during my development on SimpleGifts and I figured it would ...
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Setting up a New Project Database in Homestead with Envoy
If you’ve just started using Laravel Homestead you know just how easy it makes getting started on a new project. On my first attempt I was up and running in under five minutes…very ...
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Self-Updating Composer in Production using Laravel Envoy
I was deploying a site today with Laravel Envoy and noticed that Composer was complaining about using a build older than 30 days old. Logging in manually and running the self-update is totally ...
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Using a UUID with Laravel’s Eloquent ORM
By default, Eloquent uses an auto-incrementing integer as the primary key for its tables. While most of the time this is totally acceptable, sometimes there is a need for primary keys to be less ...
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Using Composer with HHVM on Mac OS X
What is HHVM? HHVM stands for HipHop Virtual Machine, the Facebook PHP execution engine. It was originally created to save resources on Facebook servers and has proven to increase PHP execution ...
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Pin Your OS X Dock to the Bottom Right
Link: http://thesweetsetup.com/os-x-dock-bottom-right/ A cool tip on how to pin your dock to the lower right hand corner of your screen. I really like this tip because it givse me that extra bit ...
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Loading Environment-specific Configuration Files in CodeIgniter
About a year ago, CodeIgniter got the addition of an ENVIRONMENT constant which saved me a lot of headaches with managing difference between my various environments (development, staging, ...
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CodeIgniter Startup Script
Ever since CodeIgniter moved over to GitHub I’ve been interested in figuring out a way to use the EllisLab repository code inline with our specific project code to simplify updates but ...
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CodeIgniter Spark for SendGrid’s Newsletter API
I’ve submitted my first CodeIgniter library to GetSparks.org in an effort to start giving back to the community that has provided us with so many great tools. This library is a wrapper to ...