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Using Browsershot for PDF generation
Yesterday I was trying to tweak the invoice design for Addrow, a SaaS application I made with Laravel. I have basically two templates for the invoice, one for web display...
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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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