At the end of 2020 my trusty mid-2014 MacBook Pro died and was replaced with the latest generation MacBook Pro, running an Apple Silicon M1 Pro processor. The change in architecture away from Intel to Apples own ARM based CPU meant that some software would no longer run on my

Released on 13 October 2020, Laravel 8.10 came with the addition of the new upsert() method on the database query builder (and therefore Eloquent based queries too). This allows you to perform "insert or update" queries far more efficiently - which will help when importing large batches of data.

As I'm sure you heard if you follow along with the Laravel community, the latest Laracon event was held on Wednesday, which was hosted online instead of the usual summer conference in the US. There were 15 fantastic speakers, but there was one that everybody was waiting for. Taylor Otwell

I've recently been trying out Laravel Livewire (a new JS framework for adding front-end interactivity to your Laravel applications) by updating a personal project of mine, a home network monitoring tool. This post explains how I built auto-updating ("real time") charts using Laravel Livewire and ChartJS. Introduction Before trying Livewire,

The Laravel cache can bring speed improvements to your web application. I compare the speed of each Laravel cache driver to see which is the best for performance.

A tutorial for configuring better error logging, tracking and notifications in Laravel with Sentry.

Use my open source PHP package to parse a YouTube RSS feed and embed YouTube videos in your website.

WordPress and the ACF plugin appears to randomly generate a 404 page not found error when saving a post, but is actually caused by Apache mod_security.

Learn how to build custom user providers / authentication drivers for your Laravel web application.

Learn how to fix the WordPress redirect loop that occurs when SSL is terminated at a load balancer.

Solve "[Uncaught Exception] Could not get access token" PHP exception when working with the Happyr LinkedIn API client library.

Avoid cowboy coding techniques and learn how to keep your WordPress website project in GIT version control.

Follow along with my tutorial for improving the loading time of your website. Nobody likes a slow website - not your users and not Google.

A beginners guide on using Capistrano to deploy a PHP website or web application to your server with zero downtime.

Learn how to install Postfix as an outgoing mail server on your Ubunutu web server for use with PHP.

A review of the Heart & Sole web design & development conference held at the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth in January 2011.

A summary of the options available for testing websites in Microsoft Internet Explorer.