Super Quick Tutorial: Artisan Command to Deploy Your Project

This is for small projects. For larger or distributed project you’re going to need a tool like Envoyer at the least, or preferably full CI/CD pipelines – there are loads of articles on this. This is not best practice in most scenarios, and will incur downtime for your app. The Problem / Situation You want …

Super Quick Tutorial: Backing Up Database with Laravel Artisan on the Scheduler

Before we start; there are going to be many many ways to approach this, but this is a super quick tutorial. So expect action rather than perfection. I’m going to assume we’re running an Ubuntu box, and that everything is running on a single LAMP server. You’re free to modify any of these to suit …

What are frameworks like Laravel? Why should my team and I use them? | Big Tech on Point Podcast

Hi everyone. I’m JohnoTheCoder Welcome to another episode of big tech on point. This week, we’re gonna talk about what is a framework and how does that differ from a CMS or softwares platforms that you might have heard of quite often, when you talk to an engineering team or you talk to developers, web …

Maintaining Visibility of your Project Costs, by Understanding the Process | Big Tech on Point Podcast

Hi everyone. I’m Johno this is big tech on point. And this week, we’re gonna talk about how to maintain some sort of visibility over what your development is gonna cost you. You’ve got this idea and we need to take that idea from this kind of seedling in your mind, into a working piece …

Super Quick Tutorial: Auditing Requests and Responses in Laravel using HTTP Middleware

So for whatever reason you want to track the usage of your app by your users. We’re going to do it using middleware, now for the purposes of this I’m not going to separate things out properly how we would normally, because this is a super quick tutorial. The Problem / Situation You need to …

It’s all foreign to me | Your non-tech tech hirer’s cheat sheet | Big Tech on Point Podcast

Hi everyone. I’m Johno the Coder. This is big tech on point #btop. And today we are talking about “it’s all foreign to me, your non-tech tech hirers cheat sheet. Now, if you are listening to this episode or , or this episode is particularly relevant to you, that’s probably because you are hiring your …

Super Quick Tutorial: Laravel Domain Routing with new Routing File

Another Super Quick Tutorial, this time looking at domain routing for your application. Maybe you’ve got some specific admin functionality or client functionality or something you want to route, without clogging up your route files (which is an occupational hazard of working with Laravel). The Problem / Situation You want a separate route file for …

Nobody Cares – That You Don’t Like The Platform | Big Tech on Point Podcast

Hi everyone. I’m Johno the Coder. And welcome to another episode of big tech on point #btop in this episode, we’re talking about why nobody cares that you dislike the platform and that might be Facebook or Spotify, YouTube, or whatever. There are obviously exceptions to this, you know, I realize that so some people …

What do you actually do? Tech job titles | Big Tech on Point Podcast

Hi everyone. I’m Johno welcome to another episode of big tech on point #btop this episode, we’re talking about what do you actually do? We’re gonna explain some job titles. I know this is something that causes a huge amount of frustration and confusion for people about what all of these people that have something …

The Internet Is Dead | The Purpose of Your Website Has Changed | Big Tech on Point Podcast

Hey guys, welcome to welcome back to big tech on point #btop I’m Johno The Coder, and I’m here to tell you why the internet is dead. Now it’s a bit of a drastic kind of sweeping statement, but let’s kind of delve into what I mean there . And what I really mean is …