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Laravel Sent Emails Package

Laravel Sent Emails Package

I've released a new package for recording and displaying sent emails from Laravel applicat...

David Carr

1 min read - 12th Jul, 2020

Laravel Blade Components Package

Laravel Blade Components Package

I've released a blade components package. Components can be made in projects easily enough...

David Carr

1 min read - 11th Jul, 2020

Laravel load anonymous components from packages

Laravel load anonymous components from packages

From Laravel 7 blade components are included. You may want to use these in packages. For t...

David Carr

1 min read - 10th Jul, 2020

ASCII to Binary in PHP

ASCII to Binary in PHP

Recently I inherited a project where all file attachments were stored in a database table...

David Carr

2 min read - 8th Jul, 2020

My favourite VS Code extensions

My favourite VS Code extensions

The following are the extensions I always install on VS Code, these are my preferred theme...

David Carr

3 min read - 1st Jun, 2020

My Mac Development Tools

My Mac Development Tools

What I use for day to day software development, communication, and workflow. Development s...

David Carr

2 min read - 31st May, 2020

Converting MSSQL to MySQL

Converting MSSQL to MySQL

Recently I've inherited a project build in MSSQL that needs to be converting into MySQL. F...

David Carr

2 min read - 31st May, 2020

Composer Allowed memory size error

Composer Allowed memory size error

Running composer to install a new package locally caused the following error: PHP Fatal e...

David Carr

1 min read - 27th May, 2020

composer install killed

composer install killed

If you eve run composer install and terminal hands and then shows killed it means the serv...

David Carr

1 min read - 22nd May, 2020

Reversing and Re-ordering ol items in HTML

Reversing and Re-ordering ol items in HTML

I've just learned you can alter HTML ol items. You can reserver the order and change the s...

David Carr

1 min read - 20th May, 2020

MySQL 8 The server requested authentication method unknown to the client

MySQL 8 The server requested authentication method unknown to the client

On a new installation of MySQL 8 you may come across the error below when running applicat...

David Carr

1 min read - 13th May, 2020

Software/tools for self-publishing books

Software/tools for self-publishing books

I've recently published 2 books with Packt publishing which was an interesting experience...

David Carr

1 min read - 7th May, 2020

jQuery Fullcalender with PHP and MySQL

jQuery Fullcalender with PHP and MySQL

I'm a big fan of fullcalendar.io the latest version is quite a bit different from earlier...

David Carr

10 min read - 14th Apr, 2020

MySQL categories and subcategories

MySQL categories and subcategories

Working with categories is a common task, also is the need for using subcategories, in thi...

David Carr

3 min read - 12th Apr, 2020

Easily assign variable when using explode in PHP

Easily assign variable when using explode in PHP

I use explode all the time, for splitting strings into parts. I typically write my explode...

David Carr

1 min read - 10th Apr, 2020

Writing to an existing PDF with FPDI

Writing to an existing PDF with FPDI

FPDI allows existing PDF's to be used as a template for a new PDF. Whilst this does not gi...

David Carr

2 min read - 10th Apr, 2020

Latitude and Longitude with Google Maps

Latitude and Longitude with Google Maps

Google Maps allows using its service to get map coordinates: For instance, In your HTML,...

David Carr

1 min read - 12th Mar, 2020

Laravel Merge PDFs

Laravel Merge PDFs

Ever needed to merge multiple PDF's together? It's a common need. In this tutorial, I'll c...

David Carr

2 min read - 2nd Mar, 2020

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