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...

Or filter the array first? @foreach( array_filter($field->options, function($option){ return $opt...

As far as I know, the @ tags in blade just compile to <?php ... ?> You could look into writing...

Probably time to change jobs then.

Here's my gulp setup: It creates: a single minified "all.min.js" script file one .css fil...

It's pretty easy to write your own gulpfile if you're having problems with Elixir. All you're doing...