Journal & Notebook
Blade is the simple template/theme system built into Laravel and up until this point it has been very basic. It supported most of the simple things such as variables {{ $var }}, @if @else, @section, and finally a thing called @yield. Because of the simplicity of it on a new project I thought we would […]
Read more "Laravel Blade"The past few weeks I have been building a few Laravel bundles and one of the features of bundles is the ability to have assets that are moved to your public folder during install. This is great when your bundle has css, js, images, etc.. The downside to this though is that while building the […]
Read more "Laravel Bundle Assets"A simple Laravel bundle to display your log files via the browser. Installation php artisan bundle:install logviewer Publish assets php artisan bundle:publish logviewer Then edit your application/bundles.php file and add: return array( ‘logviewer’ => array( ‘location’ => ‘logviewer’, ‘handles’ => ‘logviewer’ ) ); Download You can clone the repo by running the code below: $ […]
Read more "Laravel Log Viewer"Since starting at UserScape I have been tasked with building a new bundle application for the Laravel framework. So far all the work has been done “behind the scenes” but I wanted to share a few screenshots of what I have completed so far. This is a temporary home page which showcases the latest and […]
Read more "New Laravel Bundle App"This week I had the privilege of doing load testing on an aws setup. The goal of the test was to support 25k concurrent users and was designed to ramp up over a period of a few minutes. The first round of testing failed pretty quick and I only had a select number of large […]
Read more "CodeIgniter Output Caching"I am happy to announce that starting January 9th I will be working full time for Userscape. If you are not familiar with them they are the company behind the awesome HelpSpot help desk software. Laravel Not only will I be a part of a great company but they have also hired the creator of […]
Read more "New Year, New Job, New Framework"I always like reading lists of apps that developers use on a daily basis and I love finding ones that I have never heard of or never gave a chance. As 2011 comes to a close I wanted to share my favorite apps that I use on an almost daily basis. CodeIgniter Not a mac […]
Read more "My Top Mac Apps of 2011"