Dylan Baine

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I’m a Staff Software Engineer from Fort Wayne, Indiana working at Sweetwater Sound.

I also do web development and SEO consulting on the side.

If you’re interesting in reading some short stories I’ve written, you can see those at goingforwords.com.

Recent Posts

• How to get a picture next to your website on Google search
  Are you looking for ways to get your website more clicks from google search? If your website is already ranking on the first page of Google, but not getting the CTR (click through rate) that you’re wanting, getting an image to display next to your site listing could be key in getting more people to… Read more: How to get a picture next to your website on Google search
• How to track the speed of functions in Laravel
  When looking to improve the performance of your Laravel Application, tracking is key. This article will cover the best tools available for monitoring your application performance, as well as some key techniques used to scale enterprise Laravel Applications. The 4 best tools to monitor Laravel Performance Measuring the performance of your Laravel application is crucial… Read more: How to track the speed of functions in Laravel
• Properties in PHP interfaces.
  Do PHP interfaces have properties? Unfortunately, no. There is no current versions of PHP interfaces support properties. Can I put properties in PHP interfaces? You can’t declare properties in PHP interfaces, but you can add a doc-block to interfaces that infer properties. See below for an example to implement properties in PHP interfaces. How to… Read more: Properties in PHP interfaces.
• How to install Headless Chrome on a Laravel Forge server for chrome-php.
  This post will go over how I installed chromium binary on a Laravel Forge server. I have a PHP Application hosted that leverages the chrome-php package. This is a Vultr Compute VM server is managed by Laravel Forge. In order to install the chrome binary I had to ssh into my vultr server and run… Read more: How to install Headless Chrome on a Laravel Forge server for chrome-php.
• How to point a Namecheap domain at your server I.P.
  This article will go over how to point your Namecheap domain at a server IP address. Finding your domain in the dashboard. After logging in to your Namecheap account you will be directed to your dashboard, which should look like this. Once you find your domain in this page, you want to click the “Manage”… Read more: How to point a Namecheap domain at your server I.P.