I was having a conversation in a Slack today about MySQL's "advisory locks", which let you acquire a lock that is not table dependent. You just ask MySQL for a lock with a name and it either gives it to you or doesn't: (more…)

GitScrum is a Laravel 5.3 application to helps teams use Git version control and the Scrum framework in the support for day-to-day task management.

Development for Laravel 5.4 is now underway and new features are being leaked out as they are merged in. One new feature announced is “higher order” messages for Collections that was contributed by @franzliedke. The best way of showcasing this new fea...

Use the prepareForValidation method to cast request parameters to Enums. (more…)

Here's a step-by-step guideline for integrating AngularJS and Laravel 5.1. (more…)