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Sometimes it’s difficult to know whether to buy a system, use an existing open source system, or even build your own system. Each approach has its own risks and rewards. As a developer sometimes you get the opportunity to try things out and build a prototype to see what is possible. I recently got this chance and built a prototype for an API.
Sometimes it’s difficult to decide where to put code, trying to figure out where it really belongs. Laravel has a predefined folder structure that you can keep to for most scenarios, but I wasn’t sure whether the settings should be kept in a config file, a class, or somewhere else. In the end I decided to use an enum.
I recently updated a Laravel app running on Laravel Vapor to PHP 8.2. I was a bit nervous about the upgrade but it went smoothly for me. This article goes through the steps I went through to upgrade, from local development environment, dependencies, testing and deployment to vapor.
I have been tasked with building a new website using WordPress. The last time I used WordPress was a few years ago and involved using Advanced Custom Fields to build custom pages and layouts. Things have changed a lot over the years and now there is the built in Gutenberg editor, which uses blocks to create a custom layout and add content. The trouble was, there didn’t seem to be great support in Visual Studio Code for the blocks, as they use HTML comments.
Last year I wrote a post about testing Laravel Livewire validation rules with PHP Unit. This post uses the same techniques as that post, but shows how to transfer it to Pest instead of PHP Unit.
Recently I had to write some tests for a piece of JavaScript code that used window.location
. This left me trying to figure out how to mock the window.location
so that I could pass in dummy data and ensure that the data I got back was what was expected. Here was how I managed to solve the issue.
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I have seen a lot of threads from indie authors asking for advice with marketing their ebook. If I’m honest, I have never really had a strategy for marketing my books, I just assumed that I could put it out there and people would find it. In the real world, that does not seem to be the case.
This post follows on from my last post about using your website to promote your ebooks. The first step of the article explains that you need to make a website, but didn’t go into too much detail. This post aims at explaining how you can build a landing page for your book with Bulma Clean Theme.
I’m a web developer by trade and a part-time author, so here are a few things that I have done to help promote my books and ebooks using my website and my tech know how from my day job.