Dan Newns.

Articles

Deep dives and notes from the blog.

1st October 2025
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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.
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17th September 2025
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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.
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11th September 2025
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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.
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21st February 2025
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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
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7th February 2025
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Its the third week of my top ten things I have found this week in the Laravel and PHP world series.
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6th February 2025
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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.
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31st January 2025
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The second week of top ten things I have found this week in the Laravel and PHP world.
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30th January 2025
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Yesterday I was lucky enough to be invited down to London for the day to celebrate the Cactus Rebrand Party.
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24th January 2025
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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
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13th January 2025
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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.
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13th January 2025
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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.
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