I stumbled across this awesome video, which seems to have been original uploaded to YouTube on 11th November 2018, from my Twitter steam last week. DHH is a truly outspoken guy who has some extremely strong opinions on a number of things in our industry. In this video he highlights the simplicity of an extremely important topic that […]
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Laracogs
Prepare your Laravel apps incredibly fast, with various commands, services, facades and boilerplates. I stumbled across Laracogs a few days back. I setup a test project to play around with it and I found both the CRUD and the Table CRUD to be really interesting. I recently chatted with Matt Lantz, from Yab Inc, who created the package. […]
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The 10 Buffer Values
I absolutely love Buffer as a company and I find their culture and values fascinating. If you have not already stumbled across their blog I would highly recommend you head over to open.buffer.com. Below is a direct link to the Buffer Values, enjoy! The 10 Buffer Values and How We Act on Them Every Day
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Get remote laravel log file
By now you are deploying your web applications via some sort of magic like Codeship and have probably decided to turn FTP off on your servers. Either that or you are using Forge and the only way you can get at your production server is via SSH. If you want to run migrations on your production server then […]
Read MoreClicksco PHP Flow
As an international company the general business relies a lot on email, Basecamp and Skype however as a tech team we have an arsenal of different tools and services we use and I would like to share our processes with you.
Read MoreLimit packages to development in Laravel applications
Let’s say you like to use Laravel 4 Generators by Jeffery Way like we do at Clicksco. If you are not familiar with this package then you should head over to Laracasts and watch the free video. You will only be using the generators in development so you don’t really want to have this included on production. Let’s have […]
Read MoreWhere is my Pebble?
I ordered a Pebble on 1st February 2013. I have had no update about what the heck is going on with my order even though I know people who have received theirs even though they ordered after me. Can anyone help me?
Read MoreJetSetMe, IFTTT & Personal site
live.jamesmills.co.uk has been an ongoing experiment for a while now. It needs a little bit of an update but if you read the about page you should get a good idea of how I have it setup. I recently updated my personal site (just a quick tidy up really) and I noticed I display where I am […]
Read MoreOpen a php project in PHPStorm using Alfred
I have created a Workflow in Alfred which allows me to hit ‘alt+space’ then type ‘phps’ and then type a folder name to find it. Once it has found it I simply hit enter and it will open that folder up in PHPStorm. Yay!
Read MoreDribble.com account up for grabs
Howdy! I have had a Dribble account for a while now and have never really used it. As I am not planning on doing any design work in the future I would like this account to go to a good home. I understand they are still in high demand. It is a full account. I […]
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