Articles

28th October 2025

RectorPHP and Laravel: The Automated Refactoring Tool We Should Have Been Using Years Ago

Hands up — how many of you have a Laravel 9 or 10 application that should be upgraded but the idea of refactoring thousands of lines makes you want to switch careers? We’ve been there. More than once.

22nd October 2025

PHP 8.5's URI Extension: Because parse_url() Has Been Lying to Us for 20 Years

PHP 8.5's new URI extension finally fixes 20 years of parse_url() problems.

18th October 2025

Never Lose a Queue Job Again: Laravel 12.34's New Failover Driver

Laravel 12.34 dropped earlier this week with a feature that made me actually say "oh thank god" out loud: automatic queue failover.

15th October 2025

PHP 8.5's array_first and array_last: Finally, Native Array Helpers We Can Use

Right, let's talk about something that's been bugging us for years. If you've been writing PHP for any length of time, you've probably written some variation of "get the first item from this array" more times than you'd care to admit. And if you're a Laravel developer like us, you've probably been spoilt by the Arr::first() and Arr::last() helpers that make this dead simple.

13th October 2025

PHP 8.5's Pipe Operator: Finally, Readable Function Chains That Make Sense

Right, I'm going to be honest with you - when I first heard about PHP 8.5's pipe operator, my initial reaction was "oh great, another operator to remember." and I can't see me needing to use this. But after spending some time playing with it I've completely changed my tune. This little |> operator might just be the best quality-of-life improvement PHP has seen since constructor property promotion.

8th October 2025

Laravel Pipelines The hidden Class We've been sleeping on

I'll be honest with you - we've been using Laravel for over a decade, and it's only the last year or so that we've properly discovered the Pipeline Class. I know, I know, it's been sitting there in the documentation this whole time, but somehow we just never gave it the attention it deserved.

1st October 2025

The Laravel Community: Why Getting Involved Changed Everything for Us

I've been thinking a lot lately about what makes Laravel special. Sure, the framework is brilliant. But if I'm being completely honest, it's not the code that keeps us coming back year after year.

17th September 2025

Statamic: The Missing CMS We Never Knew We Needed

As a Laravel development team thats been running for 11 years , we've always had a bit of a love-hate relationship with content management systems. For the longest time, WordPress was our go-to solution whenever a project required CMS functionality. It was quick, familiar, and with plugins like Advanced Custom Fields, we could get clients up and running with a content management system that met their needs. But deep down, something never felt quite right about this approach.

11th September 2025

Eleven Years of Jump24: Reflections on Building a Laravel Development Team

This week marks 11 years since we started Jump24, and if I'm being completely honest, I never thought we'd still be here. Not because I didn't believe in what we were doing, but because I genuinely had no idea what "here" would look like after more than a decade.

21st February 2025

PHPUK 2025

I headed to my first Ever PHPUK earlier this week, We were there as an event sponsor. I just thought I would get down some thoughts on the event

7th February 2025

Top Ten Laravel-and PHP-things-7/2/2025

Its the third week of my top ten things I have found this week in the Laravel and PHP world series.

6th February 2025

Laracon EU 2025

So it’s over that’s it for Laracon EU 2025, it was a great event! The location itself was really nice it’s the first time I’d been to that venue so it was great to experience it for the first time.

31st January 2025

Top Ten Laravel and PHP Things - 31/1/2025

The second week of top ten things I have found this week in the Laravel and PHP world.

30th January 2025

Cactus Rebrand Party

Yesterday I was lucky enough to be invited down to London for the day to celebrate the Cactus Rebrand Party.

24th January 2025

Top Ten Laravel and PHP Things - 24/1/2025

Every Week im going to be putting together a top ten of the best laravel and PHP things I find that week. I've been doing this for a while now on LInkedin but I thought it would be worth documenting things on my own blog

13th January 2025

The importance of coding standard

Over the years there has been plenty of debates around coding standards. People have argued over things like tabs vs spaces, line lengths and other aspects when it comes to writing code.

13th January 2025

The power of Static Analysis

As PHP developers, we all want to write clean, maintainable code that doesn’t break in production. But with larger projects, keeping track of potential issues and bugs can become increasingly difficult.