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Thoughts on development, tools, and the web.

April 7, 2015

Git Style Guide

Git Style Guide is a GitHub project aimed at helping you improve your Git practices.

April 4, 2015

How To: Validate an array of form fields with Laravel

Note: This tutorial is only relevant for Laravel 5.1 and lower. Laravel 5.2 has improved how this works.

March 26, 2015

Made By: Chris Coyier

I really enjoy well made videos focusing on people within our industry and this one is great.

March 18, 2015

Shuttle - A simple SSH shortcut menu for OS X

Shuttle is a simple SSH shortcut menu for Mac.

March 17, 2015

Bootstrapped Podcast 55

In the latest Bootstrapped, Ian and Andrey discuss Snappy and some of the thought process behind the decision to shut it down.

March 16, 2015

Unsubscribes

I’ve been running a weekly Laravel newsletter for almost a year now and it’s been a lot of fun.

March 11, 2015

Farewell Snappy

A little over three years ago the team at UserScape had the idea to start a new light and simple helpdesk application that would later be named Snappy.

March 6, 2015

Adding Custom Fonts to Mailchimps Drag and Drop Email Designer

MailChimp includes a neat drag and drop email designer, but it lacks the ability to customize your templates outside of just the basics.

March 4, 2015

Geek Show - How to Write Technical Blog Posts Quickly and Easily

In the latest Five-Minute geek show, Matt covers his tips for writing technical blog posts quickly and easily.

February 25, 2015

The Dangers of Misinformation

Marcus Zarra on the dangers of misinformation:

February 25, 2015

Gulp, Bower, and Bootstrap SASS Example App

A few months back I created a tutorial on Setting up Gulp, Bower, Bootstrap Sass, & FontAwesome. If you had problems with the tutorial I’m sorry.

February 23, 2015

Call Laravel Artisan Seed From Your Code

There are certain times when using Laravel that you would like to migrate and seed the database.

February 20, 2015

Use the "Say" command for long running tasks

Pro Tip: don’t babysit that time consuming command line task. Just tack on “; say ‘finished doing X'” and let your computer tell you. Robby Russell

February 18, 2015

Behind the App

Behind the App is a new documentary style podcast series about iOS app development.

January 29, 2015

Why programming manuals aren't on audiobook

http://vimeo.com/116986391

January 23, 2015

Interviewed

Interviewed, by Mubashar Iqbal, is a new site to list people that have been interviewed on podcasts:

December 24, 2014

How to setup WordPress with Forge and DigitalOcean

Laravel Forge is a service that handles creating servers on popular cloud hosting providers.

December 23, 2014

8 Laravel Packages For Your Next Project

The best way to spread Christmas Cheer, is singing loud for all to hear.

December 22, 2014

WordPress Total Words Counter

As the year is coming to a close a lot of sites are creating year in review style posts.

December 17, 2014

First Pull Request

I came across this site and it says my first pull request was four years ago to the Fuel PHP framework.