Gilbert Pellegrom’s Blog

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…

Last week, after doing some work trying to implement infinite-scroll functionality into a new Dunked template, I was surprised to find that there was a lack of decent “infinite-scroll” jQuery plugins. The main one (https://github.com/paulirish/infinite-scroll by Paul Irish) is…

Over the past year I’ve had my fair share of experiences with e-commerce systems and selling digital products such as the Nivo Slider. While some products did it better than others, I found none of them really hit the spot. Most of…

This past weekend I gave my first ever conference talk at WordUp Inverness. It was a great event and although the audience was small it was a great experience and my talk seemed to be fairly well received. Below are my slides and a list of…

It seems like everyone is building minimal weather apps these days. Personally I’ve been wanting to make a Weather app for the iPhone for a while now. I’ve not quite built up enough skills to make a native app yet, so I’ve decided to make a web app called Weatherrr which you can add to your iPhone home screen…

Just had an idea this morning for Help Desk software that I’ve never seen before. Say for example you have a meltdown like Groove did recently. Typically you are going to get loads of messages from customers (emails, tweets etc) asking what is happening, and what you…