The simplicity of straightening the covers and rearranging the pillows gives you a sense of accomplishment.
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Fancy a coffee in 2019?
I saw a Tweet from my good friend Anthony Sterling the other day which made me think. Meeting people 1:1 ain’t normally my thing, but I’m happy to step outside my comfort zone to be more like @kwuchu, hit me up if too you fancy a coffee or two in Newcastle in 2019. https://t.co/0RDqbsrXKc — […]
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Jason Fried at Industry 2017
I know many of you know Basecamp but do any of you follow Jason Fried, CEO of Basecamp. Jason has become quite a controversial, outspoken person online. He has published some amazing ‘best seller’ books, and I recommend you all read ‘Getting Real’ (available as a free PDF) Anyway, they have recently started to publish […]
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Laravel Watchable Package
I created this package to ‘scratch my own itch’. I have a model called Order. I wanted to notify certain people (only people who were watching the order) when the status of the order changed. In this article, I will give you some boilerplate code that you can use in your application to wrap around […]
Read MoreDo You Really Need to Hold That Meeting?
A simple tool to help you decide. Source: Do You Really Need to Hold That Meeting?
Read MoreFree Grammar Checker
I stumbled across Grammarly, I actually think it was a Facebook Ad of all things. I liked the idea of adding the Chrome browser extension because it would mean that I could use it for nearly everything that I do day to day. So far my experience has been good and so I thought it would be worth […]
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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 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 […]
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