This approach to backup Laravel can also be applied to other MySQL based systems, however my main focus is on Laravel. You just launched your new website and ar... (more…)

I recently set up Github Actions for Laravel.io so I thought I'd share what it takes to set up a Continuous Delivery pipeline with Github Actions. First,... (more…)

Laravel 8 is now released and includes many new features including Laravel Jetstream, a models directory, model factory classes, migration squashing, rate-limiting improvements, time testing helpers, dynamic blade components, and many more features. (more…)

This time, I wanted to cover my basic solution to a problem we might all have when building web apps using only blade templates. (more…)

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…)