Selling My First Business (Dev7studios.com)

Last week I sold my first business. It’s not the first project I’ve sold, but it’s…

Last week I traded my iPhone for a Google Pixel 2, after nine years of being a faithful iPhone fan. In the article I explained my reasons for wanting to switch away from Apple to Google. As it turns out, quite a few people have found themselves in the similar position of…

Recently I came across the situation where I needed to run the PHPUnit tests for the project I was working on in PHP 5.6 as they were failing in Travis. The project was a Laravel project and so was running in a Homestead box using PHP 7. For development of other sites I use…

Yesterday I announced the release of my Christmas side project Splashify.

Recently when customizing the invoice email template for Laravel Spark I noticed that it didn’t have any styles applied (raw HTML emails are a bit 1999). Given how good the new Mail Notifications look in Laravel…

As has been my tradition for the last six years now, I like to spend a bit of time on the last day of the year to reflect, consider the year that has been and the year that is to come, and note down some of these reflections for posterity. What a year 2016 has been.

As has been my tradition for the last seven years now I like to spend a bit of time at the end of the year reflecting on the year that has been and looking ahead to the year that is ahead, and note down some of these reflections for posterity.

Professionally

Continuous integration testing is awesome and if you build software with a team you really should have it up and running. Travis CI is a free (for public repos) service which connects to your GitHub repositories and automatically runs your tests whenever someone pushes…