Trade-offs are one of the most important aspects a dev can understand. There are technical, business, time, quality, etc trade-offs. Understanding how each trade-off interacts will increase the impact on the company. This requires looking past the directly assigned work ...
We often turn to open source or proprietary packages for adding functionality to our apps. Here are some key points and questions to ask when selecting your next dependency.
Binding an interface to an implementation promotes good coding practices. As a result the code is less coupled, more maintainable, and testable. Why might someone want to bind an interface using Laravel? To put an abstraction between the application and ...
The idea is "x" framework provides a level of convenience that can make developers sloppy. This often happens because frameworks tend to make developing easier. So easy we forget to take a step back and figure out how all the pieces come together.
Programming is useful and important. I like to compare programming to oil in that cars require oil to operate and business require programmers. If a business intends to compete most likely they have an IT team. Many times the competitive ...
Laravel 4 is capable of running on a shared hosting environment. It’s a lot easier than you probably think. Login to your host and go to your home directory. This does not mean your public home directory, they are separate. ...
After upgrading my xampp installation I had issues sending email. I wrote a small test PHP page and it was saying my emails were being sent, but I never received them. Obviously something was misconfigured. I thought I correctly edited ...