Immutable dates in Laravel
Michael Dyrynda explains how you can use immutable dates in Laravel by default.
Read more [dyrynda.com.au]
Git Rebase: a love story
At work, Tim MacDonald decided to show git rebase the love it deserves with a brown bag session. He has record it, so we can enjoy it as well.
Read more [timacdonald.me]
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Why Aren't There More Programming Languages Startups?
In this post, Jean Yang focusses on why we don’t see more high-growth startups focused on the kinds of languages and tools coming out of the PLDI community, the “deep tech” side of programming tools.
Read more [www.akitasoftware.com]
Directory Uploads in PHP 8.1
One of the new features in PHP 8.1 is that PHP's $_FILES super global variable now contains the path to the files uploaded by the user.
Read more [php.watch]
New in Git: switch and restore
There's no new functionality, but having these new commands will make Git easier to use.
Read more [www.banterly.net]
Exploring Pest internals original
In this stream, Pest creator Nuno Maduro explains how his testing tool works under the hood.
If you want to know how to use Pest (or PHPUnit) to test your application code, consider picking up our Testing Laravel video course.
How to handle GitHub webhooks in a Laravel application original
Whenever something happens in one of your repos on GitHub, you can configure a webhook to be sent to your app. This way, you can perform some extra logic when a particular event occurs on the repo. A silly example would be to send someone a mail when an issue is opened.
We've created a new package called spatie/laravel-github-webhooks that makes it easy to consume GitHub webhooks in a Laravel app. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.
Announcing our Testing Laravel premium video course
Knowing how to write automated tests is a fundamental skill for any developer. By adding a quality test suite to your application, you'll end up with fewer bugs in production. It allows you to refactor with confidence using a test suite that has your back.
We're currently recording a new premium video course called Testing Laravel. It will be released in September.
PHP 8.1: before and after
The release of PHP 8.1 will be here within a few months, and once again there are many features to get excited about.
Read more [stitcher.io]
7 Things I Look For When Hiring
In this excellent, humanly written blog post, Laracasts founder Jeffrey Way offers some good tips for applying at any company.
Read more [laracasts.com]
Use Blink to execute something once and only once
Here's a neat use of our Blink package.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
Give me /events, not webhooks
Here are some cool ideas to improve webhooks
Read more [blog.syncinc.so]
Rebuilding iOS15 with Tailwind CSS
Simon of the Tailwind Labs team, keeps creating cool videos. In this video he recreates the iOS notifications screen.
The state of the PHP Developer ecosystem in 2021
JetBrains ran their yearly survey on all the things that devs like and use. Here are the results for the PHP ecosystems
Read more [www.jetbrains.com]
Hostnames as self-executing fetches
Here's a cool technique by Bram Van Damme
Read more [www.bram.us]
Generators vs arrays
– doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
Yield better results by iterating over generators. Learn more about these supercharged arrays that can preserve memory.
Read more [doeken.org]
Convert Guzzle requests to curl commands
I came across this cool package that helped me debug a weird request performed by Guzzle.
Read more [github.com]
Introducing Dinero.js
Using Dinero, you can perform mutations, conversions, comparisons, format them extensively, and overall make money manipulation in your application easier and safer.
The docs also contain a few falsehoods many developers believe to be true about money.
Read more [v2.dinerojs.com]
The State of Laravel survey
Laravel celebrated its 10th anniversary a few weeks ago. Today it is the most popular PHP framework used by thousands of developers every day. The emerged ecosystem around Laravel is huge and new trends are popping up all the time. This survey is an attempt to gain insight into the representation of the diverse technologies and behaviors of this outstanding community.
Read more [stateoflaravel.com]