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Being a developer in regional Australia
Finding a community of like-minded people to interact with is important for everyone.
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Single-use Tests
The tests I write are usually written in Pest, PHPUnit, or Jest. I also usually commit them to a code repository - but not all automated tests should be committ...
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Fast database queries are not always better
You probably think fast database queries are good. You also probably think slow database queries are bad.
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Unique jobs and reserving resources on the queue
When focusing in on some specific functionality of an application, such as notifications or queuing, I often head over to the docs and catch up on the current s...
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Introducing lazy loading prevention into an existing application
Laravel recently introduced the ability to detect n+1 issues caused by lazily loading Eloquent relationships.
When you are working with a one-to-many relationship, it is sometimes the case that a particular instance on the "many" side of the relationship is flagged as u...
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Git rebase: A love story
At work I decided to show git rebase the love it deserves with a brown bag session and had a lot of fun doing it so thought I'd record it and share it publicly....
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Follow the Eloquent road
This talk was given at the 2020 LaraconUS / Online conference. You can find all the talks from previous years in the Laracon Online showcase. When you take the...
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Using Laravel's Policies and Route Model Binding without Eloquent
I made an assumption. I, for no reason at all, always assumed Laravel's Policy authorization and Route Model Binding functionality were only meant to be used wi...
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Sharing PHP-CS-Fixer rules across projects and teams
Read the full article on Laravel News.
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Avoid false positives by utiliting magic values in your tests
In this video we look at how you can avoid false positives in your tests by making use of magic values. I'll show you some tests that seem to be passing, but in...
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Gracefully deprecating foreign keys for a polymorphic relationship
When migrating a classic foreign key constrained relationship, such as belongsTo, over to a polymorphic relationship, you've got to be very sure you've covered...
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Rethinking Laravel's middleware argument API
I have been using a helper trait to make working with middleware arguments feel nicer. I'm going to walk through the current way we can pass arguments to middle...
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Dedicated query builders for Eloquent models
This blog post is an in-depth walk though of a tweet I sent out a few weeks ago. You can probably get everything you need from the tweet and the comments on it,...
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Query scopes, meet action scopes
I just read Freek's blog post on the void return type (which you should check out), and it reminded me of this pattern I dig and thought I'd write up a quick po...