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[announcement] Laravel Sketchpad

Hey all, About a year ago, I posted about a package I was working on called Sketchpad, which I'm ple...

Random PHP parse errors on last line of random files

I've just set up a new Mac and have pulled my current project in. Strangely, I'm getting randomly-oc...

Why are setting up Facades so involved?

Specifically, why setting up a whole new class, adding a binding and alias are necessary. A brief te...

Best place to do a system check before starting the app

I'm building a kiosk app which centers around managing footage which is stored on a shared drive. If...

Is there a more efficient way to do this query?

Here's the query: /** * Get all dates and counts for an event via the database */ public function...

When I used to use Kohana, I would build specific View classes that extended the base View_Core clas...

There was a post on here in the last few days / week (I think) about backing up your Vagrant DB and...

At times like these I usually make a new blank class and see if I can access / run that. If it works...

Do you need to do a composer dump-autoload ? (I was under the impression that app code is autoloaded...

OK, so I've done some reading up about Fluent, and I now understand that Fluent is essentially only...