Writing clean code, managing technical debt, testing with Mockery, Toxic Tech, API specifications, and more.

This month I’m running with a collection of odds and ends of Laravel which I feel strongly about or that answer some common questions about Laravel and the related ecosystem. I find these issues to be common among people who ask me about Laravel on social media or in person at conferences or user group […]

PHP Unit, Mockery, Type Hints, Async PHP, building a REST API, training programs, PHP isolation and security, serverless computing, Laravel auth, and more.

Authentication is the foundation of your application’s security. Authentication separates guests from users and restricts functionality in your application to authenticated users. We can also take authentication a step further and completely offload the grunt work to some other service such a GitHub, Google, or any other third party authentication service provider.

PHP Daemons, Evolving PHP, containers, accessibility, Lumen, code reviews, signing git commits, running a user group, and more.

Lumen is a microframework from the creator of Laravel advertised as “Decidedly Laravel. Delightfully Minimal.” If you are looking at taking your first dive into building an API or microservice, Lumen is a welcome starting point for those already familiar with Laravel.

Laravel Scout is a package that makes adding full-text searching of your Eloquent models simple. We’re going to cover installing and configuring Laravel Scout and utilizing a community supported MySQL driver to test drive Scout.

Containers, Drupal + Symfony, Evaluating Tools, Onboarding, Application Encryption, Laravel Scout, and more

Eric and John chat with Joe Ferguson about Laravel collections. They also discuss the January features on background processing with queues, securing your website, PHP Generators and more and more. Oscar looks at PHP support and RFCs coming in 2018.

Worker Queues, Async with Generators, and PHP Sessions in Depth, Hiring PHP Devs, Laravel Collections, Security & Logging, and more.