New course on Nova Framework building a blog module

Today I’ve started a new video course on Nova Fram...

Look up domains whois/dns using terminal

Terminal is really powerful, I’m often looking up...

Nova Framework - Code Snippets

Nova Framework now has a Code Snippet section to a...

Firefox adds support for preload attribute

Today Firefox announced support for preload will b...

Disable caching whilst using Chrome developer tools

Google Chrome will cache asset files such as js an...

Mariabdb Avoid Invalid datetime format: when date is empty

When inserting records any columns with a datatype...

Laravel 5.4 toggle sidebar state with AdminLte using Ajax and Sessions

AdminLte is a great Admin theme, one feature that’...

Laravel 5.4 access auth in constructor using middleware

There are times it’s useful to be able to access t...

GIT alias shortcuts in terminal

Using GIT frequently typing the full git commands...

PHP read file from network drive

I’m working on a local hosted project where php ne...

CodePenHull Meet Up April Review

Last night I attended the 2nd CodePenHull meetup f...

The PHP magazine you should be reading PHP Architect

I’ve recently subscribed to php[architect] and I’v...

Working with bank holidays with a Carbon wrapper

Working with dates in php is easy but working with...

Using Carbon time ago aka diffForHumans() with Nova Framework

Carbon is an amazing date library that is included...

Fixing Chrome Syncing problem

Recently I reinstalled Google Chrome signed into m...

MySQL next record order by title

A common requirement for web applications is the a...

MySQL find and replace

There are times when you need to bulk update a dat...

Free SSL's with A2hosting and Let's Encrypt

Recently many browsers will start flagging sites t...