Articles

Playing with OpenAI and Laravel - Package In Review: openai-php/laravel

February 18th, 2024 — posted in Code With Burt — 1 minute read

In this episode we're reviewing, installing and testing open-php/laravel. A php client package for the Open AI API, created by Nuno Maduro.

#package, #open-source, #php, #laravel, #open-ai

I created a vat number checker package

February 11th, 2024 — posted in Originals — 3 minute read

When populating client information in an accounting platform you have to make sure the VAT Numbers of the clients you create on the service side are correct

#laravel, #package, #github, #open-source, #vat

Functional API VS Class-based Components in Laravel Livewire Volt

February 11th, 2024 — posted in Code With Burt — 1 minute read

Here is a comparison between Functional API Components and Class-based Components. The 2 options we have when using Volt, the single file Components in Laravel Livewire.

#laravel, #livewire, #volt

Spatie released a Holiday package.

January 28th, 2024 — posted in Community content — 2 minute read

Last week Spatie released a mini package that allows you to calculate the holidays for a specific country / year or even a target date.

#php, #github, #spatie, #package

Laravel Pulse in action

January 14th, 2024 — posted in Code With Burt — 1 minute read

In this video we're going through what you could do with Laravel Pulse. We're tracking slow requests, slow jobs, queues, exceptions, user requests, cache....

#laravel, #pulse, #monitoring

This was 2023

December 28th, 2023 — posted in Originals — 6 minute read

2023 is almost over, here is what happened this year.

#year-recap, #personal

Public routes blow up Laravel

December 27th, 2023 — posted in Community content — 1 minute read

Here is Chris Fidao explaining how public routes can blow up your Laravel app and eventually even bring it down.

#laravel, #routes, #sessions, #overload

Working with Policies in Laravel

December 26th, 2023 — posted in Originals — 4 minute read

As a project grows larger, it can sometimes become confusing to keep authorization logic in the controllers. A solution to this is to use Policies. But even for small projects, this is very powerful, in fact, I try to use it everywhere, it makes my code clean and readable.

#laravel, #policies, #security, #authorization

I threw out WordPress

December 23rd, 2023 — posted in Originals — 2 minute read

After years of using Wordpress for my blog, I finally made a decision I should have made yeas ago.

#statamic, #personal, #blog

The landscape of developer blogs in 2023

April 15th, 2023 — posted in Originals — 3 minute read

I was thinking about getting back to blogging. For that I wondered if my WordPress blog which I’ve set up ages ago would still do the trick.

#blogging, #cms, #poll