I’ve been asked about technical tests more times than I can count, so I thought I would write this article. I feel qualified to do so as I have participated in literally dozens of technical tests throughout my career, and I’ve tested numerous candidates. So, if you want to know […]
Hi everyone In my last post about creating simple search and filtering for Laravel I said I was considering creating a package to encapsulate this functionality. Well, I got this done a few weeks ago and have now released it onto Composer (Packagist) as kya/laravel-rest You can find the repository […]
Hi guys, as I have written this functionality a few times at this point, and I have been asked how to do it a couple of times, too. That is Laravel searching and filtering, I am going to develop a simple composer package which I can use to allow users […]
Hi everyone This is a quick introduction into checksums, and practically how to use them, at the request of someone through the Ask Johno section of the blog. I know what a checksum is, but I’m not sure how to implement or use one (in PHP) to achieve what I […]
This is something that came up in conversation, some friends and I were discussing deploying code, that runs in the background, to production environments. One of the things I raised was what can happen with daemon processes, should you have a very small inefficiency, given enough time to run (usually […]