Articles

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

This was 2022

December 31st, 2022 — posted in Originals — 4 minute read

As the year 2022 comes to an end I took the time to take a look back at what happened during the year.

#year-recap, #personal

How to use the WhereX statement in Laravel

August 3rd, 2022 — posted in Code With Burt — 1 minute read

In this weeks #QWW, we're using the whereX statement to query our data. With whereX you can use the field name of the column you want to query as a suffix to the where statement.

#eloquent, #laravel

How to use Mutators in Laravel

July 31st, 2022 — posted in Code With Burt — 1 minute read

In this weeks #QWW, we're talking about how to use mutators in Laravel. Mutators can be used to mutate the data provided by the user to the database and vice versa.

#mutators, #laravel, #tutorial

How to build a Public API with Laravel

July 31st, 2022 — posted in Code With Burt — 1 minute read

In this video you'll learn how to build a Public API. We're using, Caching, rate limiting, API resources and we'll have a look at Laravel Telescope. We'll also use PostMan to test our API.

#api, #laravel, #tutorial