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 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, …
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 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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