Introducing "it-should.work"
During my day-to-day job, it's always been pointed out that my go-to response when someone asks "Joe, is xyz working?" or "Joe, will abc work?" has always been "It should work!", never a "It will…
Docker Containers - Linux File Permission Handling
Recently I've been integrating Docker into the development and deployment workflows at work. It's mostly been a massive success, more than halving deployment times and simplifying the build and deployment process dramatically. We've gone from…
Laravel 5 - Clean Helper Extension
Laravel has always come bundled with some rather useful helpers, namely the string and array helpers. These functions are all included in their respective classes Arr and Str within the Illuminate\Support namespace. But what…
Laravel 5 - Simple Route Access Control
Note: This was written for Laravel 5.0, not 5.1. I will be updating this article for 5.1 when I can. When using Laravel 4, creating a simple user access control was rather…
Laravel 5 - HTML and Form Builder Packages
UPDATE: It has been pointed out to me that illuminate/html is no longer supported/maintained, instead, any references to illuminate below can be replaced with references to collective instead. (This includes packages, service providers…
My Sublime Text 3 Development Setup
While recently upgrading from Sublime Text 2 to Sublime Text 3 I realised I had never written down which plugins I use on a regular basis with most, if not all, projects. This post will…