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Welcome to my blog, where I post tips and tutorials about PHP, Laravel, JavaScript and Web Development

Lessons learned designing the Showcase layout for Bulma Clean Theme

Lessons learned designing the Showcase layout for Bulma Clean Theme

Published: Nov 23, 2019

I was thinking about what features I could add to my Jekyll theme and it occured to me that I didn’t really promote my theme very well on my own...

Development is like a jigsaw puzzle

Development is like a jigsaw puzzle

Published: Nov 5, 2019

Last week I decided to buy a jigsaw puzzle and as I was building it, I had a thought that puzzles share a lot of the aspects of development. After...

Streamlining your code deployment

Streamlining your code deployment

Published: Oct 16, 2019

One of the scariest things as a developer is pushing new code live, hoping it all works as expected and remembering to do all the deployment steps and in the...

Creating a simple report in Laravel

Creating a simple report in Laravel

Published: Sep 27, 2019

Recently I was tasked with creating a report in a Laravel project and I thought I would share some of the things I learned along the way. I’m going to...

Introducing Mere Blog Theme

Introducing Mere Blog Theme

Published: Sep 22, 2019

A few weeks ago I was reading an article about how everyone should write a blog. Writing can help you demonstrate your knowledge, but also help out others that are...

Creating your first Laravel package

Creating your first Laravel package

Published: Aug 10, 2019

I’ve always been interested in making a package for Laravel so I thought I would make a simple example package and share what I had learnt from the process. The...

Trouble at the church book cover

The Little-Astwick Mysteries - Trouble at the Church

A fast paced crime mystery set in the fictional English village of Little-Astwick. David Morgan, a Community Support Officer, new to the area, gets plunged in at the deep end with a new acquaintance, Evelyn McKenzie, trying to figure out what has been going on at the village church.

Available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited and Paperback.