If you’re using Laravel 5.5 or below my old medium article may be what you’re after. The following will only work in recent versions. The Monolog logging library that Laravel uses is really quite powerful, like most things in the framework it works flawlessly out of the box and unless…

Originally published at www.jamesfairhurst.co.uk. I really like the svg image in the header of the blog, it was taken from SVG Backgrounds and I thought it would be quite cool to try to animate it by updating the colours to convey some sort of wave. …

Originally published at www.jamesfairhurst.co.uk. Wanting to use as little JavaScript as possible on my new site I didn’t want to go down the traditional route of adding Google’s global site tag (gtag.js) or Google Tag Manager — it feels a bit dirty these days and I personally use Ghostery to…

Originally published at www.jamesfairhurst.co.uk. Previously my old site hosted quite a number of subdomains for old projects and scripts, when moving to Laravel Forge and setting up SSL everything now gets redirected. …

Originally published at www.jamesfairhurst.co.uk. Medium is a great place for content, combined with the lovely easy interface for writing it seemed a great place to put all your publications. As they’ve grown and started to try to make money (as they should) things have become a little more restrictive. Paid…

Originally published at www.jamesfairhurst.co.uk. Every New Year is a fresh slate, people make resolutions, review the previous year and set intentions on what they want to do this year. I’m no different! My site was very outdated and cringe worthy, last post was in 2013 and things have changed (2…

I wanted to get dusk running on CircleCI for a recent project and while there are a few recent articles unfortunately they didn’t work for me. Using the official config file from the docs as a starting point I was getting the following error: 1) Tests\Browser\ExampleTest::testBasicExample Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\UnknownServerException: unknown error: Chrome version…

Recently I wanted to split out log files depending on the severity level however it was a bit trickier than I expected. The official docs mention configuring Monolog but don’t provide much detail. …

I recently got notified of Pipelines in Bitbucket which is a nice feature, I’ve used similar tools such as Travis CI & Codeship previously which are great but having CI built into your private Bitbucket repos is super handy. Turns out it’s relatively straight forward to get up & running…