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Money - and how to handle it
August 2, 2021
The obvious choice for handling money in an application is not the correct one.
Laravel 8 database factories for even better testing
November 12, 2020
A quick look at how Laravel 8's class-based database factories help with simpler tests, and how being lazy can speed up your tests.
Fail validation if a parameter is sent regardless of its value in Laravel
October 31, 2020
A surprisingly simple validation rule that invalidates a request if a specific parameter exists.
Some tips to help speed up Composer install/update
May 27, 2020
Composer taking a while to install/update? It's either time to go and make a coffee, or try these tips to speed it up again.
PHPUnit - name your data sets in your data providers
February 26, 2020
Name the data sets in your data providers to help identify failing tests, and generally make life easier.
Laravel database factories for better testing
February 19, 2020
A quick look at how Laravel's database factories help with simpler tests, and how being lazy can speed up your tests.
Levelling up dependency injection in Laravel
February 5, 2020
Take dependency injection in Laravel controllers to the next level by using interfaces and the service container.
Introduction to dependency injection in Laravel
January 29, 2020
Have Laravel do some of the heavy lifting for you by taking advantage of its DI framework.
Save some keystrokes with this simple trick
January 19, 2020
Fed up prefixing PHP command line scripts with vendor/bin/ ? - have I got the solution for you.
Tagging blog posts in Jigsaw (part 2)
April 9, 2019
Using the Jigsaw lifecycle to generate tag pages automatically.
Tagging blog posts in Jigsaw
April 2, 2019
Some approaches to tagging posts and other things in Jigsaw.
Don't use in-memory SQLite for testing Laravel
November 10, 2018
Don't let in-memory SQLite seduce you.