Testing Laravel Validation Responses
Published: Apr 10, 2020
Last week I was working on a project that used the requiredIf validation rule. No matter how many times I write tests, I always end up referring to the Laravel...
What are Story Points?
Published: Feb 29, 2020
I’ve always estimated development issues in hours or days but I recently created a new project in Jira and it only allowed me to use story points for estimates. I...
How to motivate yourself
Published: Feb 19, 2020
Sometimes life as a developer gets you down. No matter how hard you work it seems like there is a never ending list of new bugs and change requests that...
Keeping Tests Simple in Laravel
Published: Jan 15, 2020
When developing a Laravel web application it can often start out quite simple, but can grow in complexity over time. This complexity can also end up being reflected in your...
Using Eloquent Query Scopes in Laravel
Published: Dec 29, 2019
If you are writing eloquent queries in your Laravel project and find yourself writing the same logic in your queries over and over again then query scopes might be of...
Creating my first npm package
Published: Dec 8, 2019
I’ve been a web developer for over 12 years now and I use so many different npm packages every day throughout both my day job and my side projects, but...
