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 […]
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I am working on a tool at the moment which is built on top of Codebase. I am going to blog later in more detail about this tool. For now, I want to touch on a specific Laravel issue I had yesterday. We also use TeamWeek to plan on a more top level. TeamWeek enables us to […]
Read MoreAs 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 MoreLet’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 MoreI 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 MoreI went on the hunt for a database and successfully found a couple of resources which had exactly the information I needed. One of them even had population so I was able to use this information alongside our other background research to influence our decision on which cities we would actually list so we were not trying to list all of them! I thought I would share these two links are they will probably be of use to me in the future and I hope this will help someone else out.
Read MoreAs we all know the full postcode database with all latitude and longitude information is Copyright to Royal Mail. This is annoying. I know there are loads of databases out there which claim to be the full dataset and there are loads of API’s which will geocode UK postcodes etc. In the past we have […]
Read MoreThis post is carrying on the theme of sharing little bits of code (like my good friend @boxedfish did the other day) – How to easily split a sequence of number into a hython seperate string This is not the greatest bit of code I have ever written and its not going to knock you over […]
Read MoreI am currently working on a website that is based on bike routes. What basically happens is our client goes out and rides the route tracking the route with his GPS devise. He then downloads this GPS info into MemoryMaps and adjusts the route points as necessary. This information is then exported from MemoryMaps into […]
Read MoreFor all your CSS lovers out there… there have been many times I have wanted to centre a div in the exact centre of the screen… the centre from head to toe and left to right. I have never managed to achieve this and speaking to fellow developers they have also struggled to find the […]
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