Vue.js Fundamentals
This free course will teach you and get you up and running with the fundamental concepts of Vue.js. Perfect if you haven’t touched Vue before or you just getting started!
Easily implement subscription models with Laravel Plans
Laravel Plans is a package for SaaS-like apps that need easy management over plans, features and event-driven updates on plans. If you plan selling your service with subscription, you’re in the right place!
Some quick, useful Laravel tips
Since November, I’ve been working with a small web-dev firm that uses Laravel for all its clients’ API backends. Over time, we’ve been taking new approaches to solving problems, and simplifying our code to make life easier in the long run. Here are some quick and useful tips we’ve been following as part of this process.
How to add a custom validation message in Laravel 5.5 Form Requests
In Laravel 5.5, JSON responses are a little different. In particular, you’ll find that validation exceptions have changed, and it’s easy to miss what the upgrade guide says about it.
Game of tetris in just over 500 bytes, anyone?
A JavaScript Tetris clone in just over 500 bytes.
Moon: Small like Preact, but for Vue.
Weighing in at 7kb minified + gzipped, Moon is one of the lightest libraries out there.
Goodbye controllers, hello request handlers
A lot has changed in the PHP landscape over the past years. We started using more design patterns and things like the DRY and SOLID principles. But why are we still using controllers?
Using hook classes in ProcessWire modules
After shrugging at Jumplinks’ massive module class, I’ve begun writing in a more OOP way, and there are a couple of things that have come in handy in terms of SoC of late. One of them is hook classes, which helps split hook functions out into their own classes in an intuitive way.
Sitemap for ProcessWire
A little while back, I released Sitemap for ProcessWire, which is an upgrade to MarkupSitemapXML by Pete and adds multi-language support using the built-in LanguageSupportPageNames. Where multi-language pages are available, they are added to the sitemap by means of an alternate link in that page’s <url>. Support for listing images in the sitemap on a page-by-page basis and using a sitemap stylesheet are also added.
ZA Phone for Laravel
Worked on a little Laravel package this weekend, called ZA Phone. It’s a simple and easy-to-use validator, parser, and formatter for South African phone numbers.
Magic and reality are blurred in the new trailer for Sleight
“If you had a power that no one else had, when would you choose to unleash it? That seems to be one of the questions at the center of Sleight. The main character can do something amazing, but when to do it is the real problem.”
Our Sun may have snatched Planet 9 from outside the solar system
“Those with a Pluto-the-planet-shaped void in their hearts have been eagerly following updates about Planet 9, a hypothetical world thought to be 10 times more massive than Earth and roughly 1,000 astronomical units (AU) away from the Sun. While there are naysayers aplenty, new research validates believers – and delivers some unexpected news about the planet’s rough childhood.”
Big Brother collecting big data – and in China, it’s all for sale
“Living in China, it’s safe to assume pretty much everything about you is known – or easily can be known – by the government. Where you go, who you’re with, which restaurants you like, when and why you see your doctor.”
How ultra-fast 3D XPoint memory could revolutionise PC hardware
“While a number of new hardware technologies have been revealed recently, 3D XPoint memory is one to watch out for.”