Celebrating One Year anniversary

I wrote this blog post two days prior to it and scheduled it to be published on the day of our anniversary. Today my gorgeous wife and I are celebrating one year anniversary since we got married in June of 2012. It has been an amazing year for us getting to know each other more […]

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Laravel 4 release

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 […]

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Small Laravel 4 app – Missing Pet Flyer generator

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 […]

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Uploading files in Laravel 4

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 […]

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Practical Laravel – payment integration – Stripe

Update! I have posted a tutorial for Laravel 4 as well, please check it after reading this post: maxoffsky.com/code-blog/integrating-stripe-into-laravel-4-application/ Hello there, Laravel developers! In this blog post I’ll describe in detail how you can integrate payment system into your Laravel 3 applications and charge people some real money! Specifically I’ll describe how to use Stripe. […]

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TENMA 72-7735 multimeter review

In this post, I will review a nice multimeter by TENMA, model 72-7735. This is an advanced autoranging multimeter(!) that lets you measure the following electrical properties: AC voltage 0V to 1000 V DC voltage 0 V to 750 V Resistance 0 Ohm – 40 MOhm Capacitance 0 nf to 100 uF Frequency 0 Hz […]

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