This is just a quickie post — it actually is a short email exchange I had with a new Laravel user who was wrestling with the old question of what is the more appropriate way of adding data to a production table, migrations or seeders?

Programmer — a person who follows a perfect plan to arrive at a point the plan was supposed to help them avoid arriving at

This is something new I want to try for a while as part of my own self-improvement that I hope will be helpful to others. I…

I’d like to show you a bug you may have in your own applications…

(I wonder if I can make that title any geekier?)

“State Machine”

Does that send shivers of high-level, computer science theory dread through your body? Another one of those “I should dig into that someday” feelings?