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Written by Tony Lea - 1 minute read
So, I finally decided to move away from using MAMP, which is great; however, I am having to do a lot of troubleshooting. After getting my MAMP stack all setup I was adding all my Laravel projects and going to get all the latest vendor resources via C...
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So The newest article by buzzfeed has been getting a lot of... 'buzz' (sorry for the lame reference)... Anyway they have done a good round-up of some things that developers will find funny. That's cool, but there are also some things in that article ...
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Using migrations in laravel 4 allows users to keep a version control of their database. If you aren't familiar with migrations I'll give you a quick rundown. A migration is a file that creates, updates, or removes tables and columns in your applicati...
Written by Tony Lea - 1 minute read
Lets say you've been digging Laravel Migrations and you run into an instance where you need to rename your table. Would you manually change the migrations you already created to reflect the new table name, rollback all your environments and then migr...
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Back when I was using TextMate I was easily able to navigate to a directory in terminal and type 'mate .' and open up a specific file or directory in TextMate. Well with Sublime Text 2 you can do this as well. Here's how to do it using a Bash Shell. ...
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I've been programming in PHP for nearly 10 years, and I would consider myself to be fairly competent with the language. It's funny that some of the simplest things that I would program in PHP I would just accept certain aspects instead of looking fur...
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Do you often wonder if the framework, language, or tools you use will reflect the outcome of your web project? Sometimes we can get so caught up in what to use for our latest idea that it can distract us from the thing that's really important... crea...
Written by Tony Lea - 1 minute read
So, a couple weeks ago I experienced heavy server overloads on an app due to so many concurrent users. There may have also been some code clean up that was necessary. Either way it was kind of a headache, but also a learning experience. So upon searc...
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WebSockets are great for creating a bi-directional connection between the server and the client. It's also great for making some awesome real-time and interactive web apps. The only downfall with WebSockets is that they are not supported by all brows...
Written by Tony Lea - 1 minute read
Yeah, it's really cool that you can start your node server from a terminal window by typing 'node server.js', but then you close the terminal or disconnect and your node server is no longer running... Well, wouldn't it be great if you were able to ke...