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Use CodeSnappy for good looking code snippet images
Yesterday, I posted a Tweet that included a screenshot of a code snippet. Before I could take the screenshot I needed to toggle some settings in my code editor (VSCode), and after I thought: why not make a simple tool to make that...
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How to validate object ownership in Laravel
There are several ways in which you can determine if a user owns an object in your Laravel application. This post will give you a couple of examples how you could implement this check within your form request validations.
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A simple way of implementing user bookmarks in Laravel
For a recent project, I needed a way for users to bookmark posts. Other then posts, I imagine the application to have other objects in the future too. So, with this in mind, I decided to build a solution which can handle other objects...
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Inspired Github theme for PHPStorm
Since a couple of days I have been trying out PHPStorm. So far I really like it, but I notice that for quick changes I tend to refer back to Visual Studio Code. However, since using PHPStorm I wasn’t able to find my favorite...
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Allow additional request methods Apache / DirectAdmin
Just a quick tip again. This time about how you can add additional request methods like PUT, DELETE etc. to your Apache / DirectAdmin configuration. I couldn’t find the answer easily so thought I’d share it. I did this on a...
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Invoicing with Addrow
A couple of days ago I’ve made Addrow publicly available. Addrow is an app to make invoicing simple and even a little fun again. It has been a quiet launch for now, as I’m still tweaking some...
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Using ngrok with Laravel
If you like to temporarily expose your local development environment, you can do this with ngrok. If you use Laravel Valet for development, you already have ngrok...
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Introducing Easy Liveblogs
I’m very happy to announce that today, I published the Easy Liveblogs plugin on wordpress.org. It’s a free WordPress plugin that provides your WordPress site with the ability to turn any post into a liveblog. Liveblogs are a...
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