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Yesterday Ryan Tablada organized a Google Hangout in which Matt Staffer, me (Maks Surguy), Jake Chapman, and Alex Dover were discussing CMSs built with Laravel and the future of such systems. You can watch our discussion here and also read the conversation on Google+ (link on the bottom of this post): Before the discussion, I had […]
I love geometric art. Within the last month a few things around the web inspired me to create something of my own that creates art based on geometrical shapes. The result of a few days of work is an interactive tool that allows anyone to create beautiful geometric patterns like this: You can view the […]
If you have an application that runs on Laravel (or any other back end framework) you might like to see some custom analytics and stats such as : How many users signed up last week How many orders were placed last month How many blog posts were created by all users in your system within […]
Link to package: https://github.com/msurguy/Honeypot For the past couple months I have been seeing an increase of spam submissions on some of my websites. Since spam is just a waste of everybody’s time, I had to tackle this problem quickly and prevent spam bots from annoying me. With a vast array of options to prevent spam available, […]
This post is an excerpt from my bestselling e-Book called “Integrating Front End Components with Web Applications“. Using Bootstrap 3 HTML/CSS/JS framework Almost any web developer that has made a website or two has heard of Bootstrap framework. Bootstrap is a frontend framework that provides the necessary CSS and Javascript to make your websites responsive […]
Today my friend Stidges and I are making a small contribution to open source community. We are releasing the source code of a website that the two of us created together called Laravel Tricks. The purpose of the website is to give the Laravel community ability to create small code snippets that could be helpful […]
As I was faced with choosing the best PHP framework for a project in the spring 2012 I found Laravel framework to be easiest to pick up. It allowed me to build my first application in a structured way with clean and understandable code. Fast forward to this day, I have built plenty of applications with […]
This tutorial is one more addition to my “Building a shop with Laravel” tutorial series. In the previous tutorial, I showed you how to implement very nice “Smart search” feature using Selectize.js plugin to make user experience a bit nicer: https://maxoffsky.com/code-blog/laravel-shop-tutorial-3-implementing-smart-search/ When I develop web applications, I care a lot about the user experience and […]
This tutorial is one more addition to my “Building a shop with Laravel” tutorial series. In this tutorial I will share what I have learned while building a “Smart Search” feature into a big project. What is smart search? Take a look at the GIF below to see what I mean: The real, working demo […]