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After dropping out of college twice and working several dead-end jobs, I struggled to find my place in the world. This is a story about how my girlfriend (now wife) saved my career without even realizing it. In 2016, I had no direction. I felt stuck. I had no real plan for my life, just […]
As a mid to senior level engineer looking into Javascript for the first time, the lack of interfaces can be daunting. Without the safety net of an interface to ensure that your modules are properly integrated, how to you ensure compatibility? Javascript is a dynamically typed language where the old adage rings true: if it […]
Enhancing your JavaScript development experience can be significantly achieved by leveraging JSDoc annotations to improve code editor features like autocomplete. By providing practical tips on utilizing JSDoc, developers can write more efficient and error-free code. Understanding JSDoc and Its Benefits JSDoc is a popular markup language used to document JavaScript code, applying type checking and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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” […]
If you’ve ever found yourself writing nasty inline php if statements in order to dynamically add styles or classes to your HTML, then this package might just be for you. I just released the first version of ComputedStyles php which provides an elegant API for applying styles and classes to HTML. Imagine turning this code: […]
The easiest way to make your code is more extensible is by making sure that your high level code and low level code aren’t mixed together. What’s high level and low level code? In this context, low level code would be considered code that interacts with a data store, filesystem, or third party API’s/libraries. High […]
If you rely on stdout for your Laravel logging for services like Data Dog or New Relic, you’ve likely ran into an issue where you can’t see the output of your Laravel commands that are called by the scheduler. In this post you’ll find that there is an easy solution to this issue. Before I […]
What if you accidentally run your test suite in a production environment? Well, if you’ve been around Laravel long enough, you know what happens. You run php artisan test, you notice it’s taking a really long time, and you finally realize that is because the test is clearing out your whole database. Lucky for you, […]
What if the database is slow? Can I build an app so that a user never has to wait on the database again? This is…
At Sweetwater, we leverage Laravel Sanctum for API authentication in some of our service. In this post, I’d like to share…
Learn how to leverage Docblocks to implement interfaces in your JavaScript code.