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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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 very short, we’re going to cover the Interface Segregation Principle (ISP) and the Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP) in this article, and practically how we implement them within a Laravel environment. Dependency Inversion Principle The principle is handy for the decoupling modules (making them independent of one another) Modules should not depend upon each other, …
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Hi everyone I’ve been meaning to do deep dive articles for a while, and have always struggled to find the right code samples and stuff. This weekend I made the decision to take a project I’ve been working on (Mafia Online) in a different direction, and port the codebase (which is shocking, for the reasons …
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 on GitHub here, and the …
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