davestewart

[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...

I always keep things simple to start with, so I wouldn't bother with separate tables - it's more to...

Sounds like a candidate for a Queue

Spot on, thanks Xum! Looking at the source code, the two functions set up events, 'creating:' and 'c...

Interestingly-enough, this is the exact reason I'm picking up Laravel at this time. We had a kiosk /...

Something like this you should be making a small, specific, HTML/JS-only test case, rather than post...