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I recently struggled to get my Laravel 11 app to send messages to a Slack notification channel. My first confusion was that the docs refer to making the relevant model class notifiable and sending the …
My bag with its contents spilled out I quite like those pictures of people's bags and their contents that sometimes get tweeted about. It's slightly voyeuristic, but also you get ideas for practical …
The problem with setting yourself a 30 day writing challenge is that you have to actually write something every day. Go figure. The first few days are easy enough but after that the runway starts …
Today I'm starting to re-purpose old content into an email course aimed at designers and front-end developers. I'll work on this in the coming days, for instance they need top and tailing, and all …
Today I'm writing with a work hat on and am sketching out some product ideas. From these I may then expand them out into one or more long-form service offering pages for my website. Premise My company …
All the thoughts I'm slightly cheating here. The first day of Marc's 30 Day Writing Challenge started when I was sunning myself on a lounger in Morocco (a cheeky 4 day break during Easter) and there …
TL;DR this is an open letter to people organising conferences in 2016 who are looking to fill slots on webbish subjects, tending towards software development, that would be both palatable and valuable …
In March 2015, W3Techs had PHP on 82 percent of websites, and 18 percent of those were still on PHP 5.2. Support for 5.2 had ended in January 2011. That's a lot of applications that hadn't had a …
Truth be told I'm really glad to be seeing the back of 2014; let's just say it has been a challenging year. I appear to have gotten through it mostly intact, though, and I am looking forward to 2015 …
I had an epiphany this week. In fact it's been a month or two of epiphanies but this one was particularly important. Embarassingly it's one of those 'No Shit Sherlock' realisations, the ones we all …