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Tutorial • October 20, 2016 • 1 min read • Free

Quickly test email sending with... artisan tinker!

Artisan tinker is a wonderful command-line helper to run any simple code. I was often using it to test simple things like if there is any data in Eloquent model or something like that. But today I realised it's much more powerful. So when faced the task of testing if Mailgun is working for one of the clients - here's how it looked.

#send email

Tutorial • October 12, 2016 • 1 min read • Free

10 Fresh Laravel Packages - October 2016

Let's continue our monthly tradition of reviewing new and useful Laravel packages. To be honest, not all of them are new, but found by me only recently. As usual, here are the slides with links to the packages below.

Tutorial • October 10, 2016 • 2 min read • Free

5 Ways to Solve Angular and Blade Conflict

If you work with AngularJS and Laravel project, you might come across a conflict of the same syntax - both Angular and Blade use {{ }} brackets for variables. How to avoid errors? Actually, there's more than one option here.

#blade

Tutorial • October 03, 2016 • 12 min read • Free

Ryan Thompson from PyroCMS: "It's all about principles"

Another interesting interview! Some of you may have heard about PyroCMS - one of the best Laravel-based systems on the market. So I decided to talk to its creator Ryan Thompson and ask about the history of Pyro, the future plans and the vision behind the project. And here's a long but interesting interview with insights from the man himself. Have fun reading!

Tutorial • September 22, 2016 • 2 min read • Free

Laravel for Clients: What is the difference between Laravel versions?

Every framework has its own version history - it’s being maintained and updated. So every new version brings new functionality, some functions are changed or deprecated, so it’s quite important to know which version you will be using for your projects.

Tutorial • September 14, 2016 • 1 min read • Free

10 Fresh Laravel Packages - September 2016

Let's get back to an old tradition started back in Spring - I started reviewing new and interesting Laravel packages at my local meetup in Vilnius. Back to business - here's the September 2016 version.

Tutorial • September 12, 2016 • 7 min read • Free

Jeff Madsen: Laravel newsletter, books and dev-life in Japan [INTERVIEW]

Let's continue our new tradition of interviewing interesting people - today I have Jeff Madsen who is really active on Twitter and on his Laravel newsletter, which we will talk about in a minute. He's also written a couple of books and has a lot of tips - both on coding and on freelancing. And on life in general. Let's talk to Jeff!

Tutorial • September 07, 2016 • 11 min read • Free

Bruno Škvorc: work at SitePoint, Laravel's popularity and Freelancing

We have another interview with an active PHP community member! Bruno Škvorc is a PHP developer and an editor at the popular SitePoint. I decided to ask him about his career, coding and writing about code. Also we talk about freelancing success and predictions for PHP market future. Let's dive in!

Tutorial • September 05, 2016 • 2 min read • Free

Make migration command: did you know about parameters?

Quick tip for you guys today. Maybe you already know that, but for some of you this might be useful. Did you know that make:migration command has optional parameters --create and --table?

Tutorial • September 05, 2016 • 6 min read • Free

80 Laravel packages?! WOW! Interview with Freek Van der Herten from Spatie

Today we’re talking with Freek Van der Herten - a developer and a partner at Spatie - company from Belgium which is hugely active in Laravel community: they’ve created around 80 packages which are available for free (now it’s postcardware) on Github. I was always interested in the business side of it - how do they make time for such a huge amount of open-source work?

#spatie