Last week I have made a nice addition to my Bootstrap Snippets site – Bootsnipp.com . I have built and integrated a button builder that makes it easy for anyone to build up their Bootstrap Buttons. How easy you say? Well you just click on the color of the button, type in the text, choose the […]
Wohoo! I’ve installed some 16 Gb RAM in my Maxbook Pro that I crowdsourced for my 25-th birthday! It only had 4 Gb of RAM initially and it was pretty slow when I would have lots of windows open in Chrome or a few programs running at the same time. Considering that RAM upgrade from […]
Laravel fans! I am releasing a few wallpapers dedicated to Laravel, if you like them please share this post with others who might want to prettify their screen with these. Also if you have any suggestions on them, please let me know! You can download it in different resolutions below: 1280×800 2560×1600 1600×1200 1280×1024 1280×800 […]
Update! To adapt this code to Laravel 4 please see my newer post here: https://maxoffsky.com/code-blog/uploading-files-in-laravel-4/ In this short blog post I will share with you how I made queued multiple file upload possible with Laravel and a nice jQuery plugin called Dropzone.js. I needed to give the user the ability to upload multiple images at once […]
What is Laravel? Why should any PHP developer care about it? A few days ago I had to present at a local PHP Meetup in Fullerton, CA. I spoke about Laravel framework and why it will be the future of PHP frameworks (and that future is already here). Below I have that presentation from my […]
I created this presentation for a Laravel Meetup that I organized. It explains what’s changed in Laravel v4 over v3 and brings up some nice examples of using new features. Check it out : And the transcript of it is below: laravel 4 What’s old?What’s new? by Maks Old: Clean and Eloquent syntax. Separation of […]
Security continues to be a major concern in computer networks. Reports indicate the continued trend of cyber-criminals exploiting any possible weakness within a network. This has lead to the need for new technologies and their quick implementation so that cyber threats can be combated and substantially reduced without interruption to network services. Lets have a […]
This is a super quick post. I want to show you an advanced blog made in Laravel version 4, here are the features Twitter Bootstrap 2.3.0 Custom Error Pages 403 for forbidden page accesses 404 for not found pages 500 for internal server errors Confide for Authentication and Authorization Back-end User and Role management Manage blog […]
I’ve noticed that some people are having trouble using Backbone fetch function to pass parameters to their PHP applications. In this very short post I’m going to fix that and demonstrate how to pass a query parameter during backbone fetch call so that the PHP application (running Laravel) will return specific data. For example the […]
A couple days ago I printed Yoda on my 3d Printer – http://instagram.com/p/U2HR__StrH/ Yesterday I put him on a remote controlled micro robotic platform, watch video of it in action here: And today I made him speak. The basics setup is this : Arduino Uno. MicroSD card reader (4$ at DX.com ). MicroSD card […]
Login with AJAX – including PhoneGap apps Oh God. For a few weeks I was researching what is a good way to login to a Laravel web app via AJAX and it turns out I was over-preparing for some problems that after all weren't even there. Example – you made a web app in Laravel […]
Two weeks ago I bought a 3D printer called PrintrBot Plus. I never had a 3D printer before. This technology is completely mind blowing to me. Fast forward, I made quite a bit of adjustments and upgrades. Here are the mods I have done to my PrintrBot Plus 3D printer: Replaced the tip with 0.35mm tip […]