A collection of posts about Web Development, whether it be problems I've faced, solutions I've found, cool stuff I've been trying out or new projects I'm working on.
Development
If you've seen my previous posts, you may know that I'm currently helping out on a SaaS product. I chose Laravel Forge as the server provisioning tool because the less time I spend messing around with servers, the more time I can spend building the actual
Development
Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of joining Vonage for the first in their "Knowledge Quest" series, which is going to be a mixture of free online courses and content that anyone can join in and watch. For the first session, it was hosted by James Secondé
Development
It's been a couple of months since I first released Profanify, the Profanity checker for PestPHP. If you want to read the launch post, then you can check that out here: Announcing ProfanifyThis weekend, I decided to work on a new plugin for PestPHP. If you don’t
Development
I've mentioned a few times on this blog that I'm currently helping out a SaaS product get off the ground and one of the things I wanted to make sure was done right, was monitoring. It's all very well thinking your product is working,
PestPHP
Now that LarcaonUS is over for another year, it's time to look forward to the release of some of the stuff that was shown off. One of those things was v3 of PestPHP. Nuno Maduro did a fantastic job of showing off what's coming to PestPHP
Development
This weekend, I decided to work on a new plugin for PestPHP. If you don't already know, PestPHP is one of my absolute favourite tools. I use it on a pretty much daily basis and I love working with it, whether it be adding new Expectations to the
Development
I launched Lawman earlier this year to make it easy to bring the joy or PestPHP architecture testing, to SaloonPHP. I've just seen that it's gotten past it's first 1000 downloads, which I'm really pleased about! Lawman scratched my own itch as
Speaking
At work, every 6 months, we rent a theatre and all of our Engineering group get together for a day of talks, food and just hanging out. It's a big group, spread out all across the country, so it's great that we can have these days
Development
You may have guessed that I'm a big fan of PestPHP and one of the biggest things I love about it is how easy it is to run your tests in parallel, by simple passing --paralell flag into your run command. You can specify the number of processes
Speaking
Well, this morning was quite an interesting one as I gave a lecture to a bunch of Teesside University students and staff, which is something I've never done before! I wanted to talk about something quite general that everyone could gain something from, so I decided to talk
Development
I've been looking into Livewire for quite some time now, but never really had a need to use it and the way I learn best is by working on a project that I can actually "launch" at the end of it. Well recently at work, I
Development
So SaloonPHP received a new plugin this week! The plugin is called Lawman and well, actually, it's a PestPHP plugin for SaloonPHP. Saloon and Pest are two of the PHP libraries that I used on a daily basis, and I thought it was about time they met each