Hi again everyone, this is Johno, and this is Big Tech on Point #btop, coming in with the first proper episode of the Podcast, which is The Experts Are Lying To You. And they probably are, to be honest, they are probably lying to you about a couple of things. They are probably lying about …
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The Problem / Situation You want to store some configurations from the UI, so that your system can be used to do something at runtime. Maybe it’s rate limits, or site titles, or something. The Super Quick Solution Build a storage mechanism (probably a migration and model) to store your tables. I’ll assume you’ve created …
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I keep trying to get around to writing blog posts, little tips and tricks and things I’ve found when working with Laravel, to pass on answers to questions I’ve been asked, things I’ve taught to colleagues and peers, and the like. But writing long winded tutorials takes ages, so I never get around to it. …
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Hey everyone I decided to do a Podcast, alongside my super quick tutorials which I’ll be publishing shortly. This is really to help non-tech people collaborate best with tech people, but explaining tech concepts in a bite-sized way. Anyway I’ll not say too much on it, I’ll link you to my Podcast here – you …
Hey everybody, so I wanted to put a quick post up here. I do a lot of work with WordPress and have done for many years. Usually, nowadays, it takes the form of basic maintenance and hosting. One of the things I have always found to be a problem, particularly if you work from multiple …
Looking at how I modified a SQL query to retrieve 3.2 million records from a database (paginated) in about 10% of the time of a traditional paginated query
One problem a lot of developers seem to come into, from reading their code, is when they try to handle large sets of data with background scripts. There are a few common mistakes that I have seen from inheriting the code of my predecessors, and I thought I would offer some solutions to the problems …
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In this article I cover some of the things that I have learned over the years
In this article I cover some of the basics of the kinds of considerations you might have when considering moving from VPS/bare metal server into cloud architecture.
Hi everyone In this article I thought I would tackle complex tag searching, using MySQL. There are lots of ways this can be achieved at a PHP level, through looping and checking/comparing. However, if you are working with a large dataset, and tagging is a required piece of functionality, for example in an enterprise blog, …