May 31Thoughts on a browser’s ‘back’ buttonA few days ago, @adamwathan ran a poll asking whether people felt that the browser’s ‘back’ button should return the previous page exactly as it was when the person viewed it, or whether its content should be refreshed so that it was up to date. I felt it should be…Browsers4 min read
Published in ITNEXT·May 11Setting up an S3 bucket and Cloudfront distribution for a Laravel Vapor storage diskIn this article, I’ll be exploring the process of setting up a Cloudfront CDN for an Amazon S3 bucket. It isn’t especially complicated, however, setting up the right policies is critical to enabling access and preventing CORS problems. While parts of this article are applicable to AWS in general, it…AWS4 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Feb 8Maintain statistics about your database tables using Laravel and triggersThis article is one of several I’ve written while building a web app in public. It’s called Lumeno (a developer portfolio and recruitment platform) and you can follow its progress on Twitter — @LumenoDev, or sign up to be notified when it is launched. A couple of weeks ago, I…Laravel3 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Jan 15Why I built Waterfall, an open-source package to perform cascading deletes.This article is one of several I’ve written while building a web app in public. It’s called Lumeno and you can follow its development on Twitter — @LumenoDev, or sign up to be notified when it is launched. Yesterday, I released a Laravel package that aims to solve a problem…PHP3 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Jan 11How to use Twitter Snowflake IDs for your database primary keys in LaravelThis article is one of several I’ve written while building a web app in public. It’s called Lumeno and you can follow its development on Twitter — @LumenoDev, or sign up to be notified when it is launched. Yesterday, I published an article where I compared UUIDs, ULIDs and Twitter…Laravel4 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Jan 10Choosing the right data type & means of generating unique primary keysThis article is one of several I've written while building a web app in public. It’s called Lumeno and you can follow its development on Twitter — @LumenoDev, or sign up to be notified when it is launched. While building Lumeno, I’ve been taking some time to investigate the options…Database8 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Jan 4How I designed and built Lumeno’s recruitment search engineA few days ago, I posted a screenshot on Twitter, which documented the folder structure for a feature. This attracted quite a bit of interest and I started getting comments asking me to explain it further. …Laravel9 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Dec 15, 2021Scaling your Laravel applicationsThis article is part of a series where I build a web application in public. It’s called Lumeno and you can follow its development on Twitter — @LumenoDev, or sign up to be notified when it is launched. While building Lumeno, I’ve been taking some time to investigate dos and…Laravel11 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Sep 23, 2019Testing external services with fake classes in LaravelThis article is part of a series where I document insights, changes and rethinking that I experienced while refactoring the codebase for Pulse — a painless and affordable site & server monitoring tool designed for developers. Today, I’d like to talk about how I created fake classes to test functionality…PHP4 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Sep 18, 2019Simplifying Laravel tests by using factory setup classesThis article is part of a series where I document insights, changes and rethinking that I experienced while refactoring the codebase for Pulse — a painless and affordable site & server monitoring tool designed for developers. Today, I’m going to talk about test factories and how you can use them…PHP5 min read
