PHP 8.5's Pipe Operator: Finally, Readable Function Chains That Make Sense
Learn how PHP 8.5's pipe operator makes your code more readable and testable. Practical examples, performance insights, and migration tips included.
Things I've been writing.
Laravel features we've all been sleeping on, testing patterns, and the odd honest look back.
Articles: 25 articles, page 2 of 3
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Laravel Pipelines The hidden Class We've been sleeping on
Learn how Laravel's Pipeline helper transforms complex controllers into clean, testable code. Real examples, Pest tests, and production patterns included.
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The Laravel Community: Why Getting Involved Changed Everything for Us
After 11 years building Laravel apps, discover why community involvement is important for us From Laracon EU sponsorship to local meetups – real ROI revealed.
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Statamic: The Missing CMS We Never Knew We Needed
Discover why Statamic became our go-to CMS after moving away from WordPress. Learn how this Laravel-based content management system transformed our development workflow and client projects.
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Eleven Years of Jump24: Reflections on Building a Laravel Development Team
Celebrating 11 years of Jump24! From startup struggles to building a Laravel development team with 10-year veterans. Real lessons on team building, growth, and company culture in software development.
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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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Top Ten Laravel-and PHP-things-7/2/2025
It's Friday 🥳 Laracon EU is all done and dusted, so you know what that means! It's time for the top 🔟 Laravel and PHP things I have found this week across various social networks.
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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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Top Ten Laravel and PHP Things - 31/1/2025
In 🥇 place this week we have Jon Purvis with his post "Importing 1.7 billion rows of CSV data from Stripe with PHP", this makes for a really interesting read he goes into some great detail on how he handled such a mammoth task
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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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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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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.