Hey Laravel users! Laravel version 4 has been released this Tuesday! I feel you cheering and smiling because this means a big leap forward for PHP developers. There were over 570 users in IRC (hashtag laravel) when it was released and I was one of them! Also, my face is on the top row of […]
Over last week I have been building a few of my own products and one of them is called Filegr.am. It is a super simple and quick file sharing application but the key difference between other services is that files expire at a certain period of time instead of being stored forever. Some of the […]
I decided to test out some new composer packages using Laravel 4. The first package that I wanted to test was Intervention Image Class located at http://intervention.olivervogel.net/image. It allows you to operate with images and do many common operations on images such as : Resizing Cropping Embedding other images Writing text Putting shapes and objects on […]
In this post I will try to explain what is a Cron job and show how to use them in Laravel v3 and v4. Let’s start with the basics. A Cron job is basically a command that is scheduled to execute at some period of time or at a very specific time. What command? Well, […]
This is a super short post about uploading files with Laravel 4. I have struggled a few minutes trying to convert this from L3 format to L4 and to save somebody time decided to post this short PHP script. This script can work with multi file uploads that I have documented in my previous blog […]
A couple days ago I had to give a small presentation on AngularJS framework at my job. In this post I will document my initial impressions of structure of AngularJS applications VS BackboneJS applications that I am used to build. What is AngularJS? It is a javascript framework that is meant to be used for […]