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Hi, I’m Dave. A Laravel Developer. I love to build Laravel apps using the TALL stack.

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Site running slow find out why with Pingdom Tools

Site running slow find out why with Pingdom Tools

I've recently converted my site over from a custom built system to Wordpress as I'm learni...
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David Carr

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Is a static salt enough when storing passwords?

Is a static salt enough when storing passwords?

No is the short answer, equally having random salts stored in the database is not that muc...
David Carr

David Carr

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Highlight matched words in a search

Highlight matched words in a search

This tutorial will show you how to highlight words from a search. To learn how to search...
David Carr

David Carr

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Hiding and protecting a directory with htaccess

Hiding and protecting a directory with htaccess

When building web applications is makes sense to hide sensitive files such as say a config...
David Carr

David Carr

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Coda 2 released today will you be getting a copy?

Coda 2 released today will you be getting a copy?

So unless you live under a rock you'll know today is launch day for Panic's Coda 2, its be...
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David Carr

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Dynamic Form Elements with jQuery

Dynamic Form Elements with jQuery

When creating a form you don't always know how many form elements to give to the user, it...
David Carr

David Carr

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Removing index.php from your codeigniter 2 url with htaccess

Removing index.php from your codeigniter 2 url with htaccess

In Codeigniter by default all calls to your controller from a http request will have index...
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David Carr

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Creating a simple captcha form with validation

Creating a simple captcha form with validation

This tutorial will show you how to create a captcha form to stop automatic submissions, to...
David Carr

David Carr

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Show working days of a month excluding weekends with PHP

Show working days of a month excluding weekends with PHP

This tutorial will show you how to get the individual working dates of a month, whilst rem...
David Carr

David Carr

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Creating an image gallery from a folder of images automatically

Creating an image gallery from a folder of images automatically

This tutorial will show you how to quickly create a gallery from a folder of images. Using...
David Carr

David Carr

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Wordpress Jetpack get number of Subscriber/followers

Wordpress Jetpack get number of Subscriber/followers

There's a great Wordpress plugin called Jetpack it comes bundled with some great options s...
David Carr

David Carr

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Adding Events to Microsoft Outlook from PHP using ICAL

Adding Events to Microsoft Outlook from PHP using ICAL

I've recently been trying to find the best way of creating a calendar event outlook from a...
David Carr

David Carr

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Display mailbox folders with IMAP using PHP

Display mailbox folders with IMAP using PHP

When using IMAP its likely you will want access to the users mailbox so they can view all...
David Carr

David Carr

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Move emails to selected IMAP Folder

Move emails to selected IMAP Folder

Moving email from one IMAP mailbox folder another is a simple process this short tutorial...
David Carr

David Carr

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Is Twitter bad for your Blog?

Is Twitter bad for your Blog?

This is a question I've been thinking about recently. I used to blog frequently heck almos...
David Carr

David Carr

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Mixing Jeditable with a Calendar

Mixing Jeditable with a Calendar

For a recent project I needed to be able to edit text directly on the webpage I decided to...
David Carr

David Carr

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DroidEdit A text and code editor for android

DroidEdit A text and code editor for android

This looks like an interesting IDE for Android development DroidEdit is a text and code e...
David Carr

David Carr

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I've been invited to be a technical reviewer for an upcoming book (PHP and CouchDB Web Development) from Packt publishing.

I've been invited to be a technical reviewer for an upcoming book (PHP and CouchDB Web Development) from Packt publishing.

I'm thrilled to be asked to review the book, I've of course agreed to review the book whic...
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David Carr

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