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Splashify — Beautiful Desktop Wallpapers for Mac and Windows
Yesterday I announced the release of my Christmas side project Splashify. At Christmas time I like to build a side project that helps me to learn something new and push me to do something out of my comfort zone. A few years ago I built an iOS game and released...
11 January 2017 · More →
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2016 Year In Review
As has been my tradition for the last six years now, I like to spend a bit of time on the last day of the year to reflect, consider the year that has been and the year that is to come, and note down some of these reflections for posterity....
31 December 2016 · More →
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Selling My First Business (Dev7studios.com)
Last week I sold my first business. It’s not the first project I’ve sold, but it’s by far the biggest and was my main source of business income for five years. Disclaimer: Yes I sold an internet business and no I am not a millionaire (not even close). It’s amazing...
24 November 2016 · More →
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Convert the Laravel Spark invoice email to a Mail Notification email
Recently when customizing the invoice email template for Laravel Spark I noticed that it didn’t have any styles applied (raw HTML emails are a bit 1999). Given how good the new Mail Notifications look in Laravel 5.3 I figured it would make sense to convert the existing invoice email template...
14 November 2016 · More →
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Running PHPUnit Tests in Docker
Recently I came across the situation where I needed to run the PHPUnit tests for the project I was working on in PHP 5.6 as they were failing in Travis. The project was a Laravel project and so was running in a Homestead box using PHP 7. For development of...
27 September 2016 · More →
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Backing Up Laravel Homestead Databases
Laravel Homestead is an awesome tool for building Laravel sites. However, sometimes it would be nice if when you did a vagrant destory you wouldn’t lose all of the information in your databases. Or in my case, if you database crashes and you can’t get it back up, it would...
13 July 2016 · More →
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Conditional Breakpoints in PhpStorm
Here is a quick tip: Have you ever been debugging code in a loop and only wanted to trigger a breakpoint if a specific condition is met? In PhpStorm it’s actually very simple. Right click on the breakpoint and add a “Condition”.
7 July 2016 · More →
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How and why I built Web Uptime
Back in May this year I launched a new side project called Web Uptime. Web Uptime provides multi-location website uptime monitoring for your sites. I’m not going to talk so much about what Web Uptime does here, you can see the marketing site to find out more, rather I’m going...
28 June 2016 · More →
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Becoming a Father
On the 23rd March 2016 at 10:31pm my life changed. I had spent months pre-empting what it would be like to become a father. What would the experience of labour be like? How would we handle looking after a child 24/7? How would I feel when I first saw my...
12 May 2016 · More →
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Setting up Xdebug on Homestead 4.0 (PHP 7)
As Xdebug has been removed from the default Homestead box you now need to install it manually to be able to use it. Once you have vagrant ssh-ed to your Homestead VM the first thing you need to do it download the latest compatible version of Xdebug (2.4.0RC3 at the...
11 January 2016 · More →