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13 OCT 2025 Article

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.

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08 OCT 2025 Article

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.

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01 OCT 2025 Article

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.

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17 SEP 2025 Article

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.

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11 SEP 2025 Article

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.

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21 FEB 2025 Article

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

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07 FEB 2025 Article

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.

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06 FEB 2025 Article

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.

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31 JAN 2025 Article

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.

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30 JAN 2025 Article

Cactus Rebrand Party

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

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24 JAN 2025 Article

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

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13 JAN 2025 Article

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.

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