Helpers

Reexamining the meaning of “helper.” — A few years ago, I started wondering about the real meaning of the word “helpmeet” or “helper” in the second chapter of Genesis. The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” Genesis 2: 18 (NIV) Eve…

If you’re a React developer looking for a fast and efficient workflow, Vite is a tool that you should consider. Vite provides instant feedback on your changes and updates your React components without the need for a full page reload. This makes the development process much faster and more efficient…

That Is the Question… — There are two moms. They both have 4 children. They both homeschool their 4 children. One has a house cleaner; the other does not. Who’s better off? My Experience With House Cleaners Your first instinct might be to shout, “Of course having a house cleaner is better!” And you might be right. …

I remember being in a bus by 6am sometime in 2018. I was on my first job after university while awaiting my posting for the National Youth Service Scheme. My seat partner was a young man reading an e-book on his phone. The headings were quite catchy, and I caught…

It is very easy to find the helpers when you are one. — When we see disasters, crises, or tragedies on the news, we often see stories of people who rise to the occasion and help those affected. We call them “helpers,” and we praise them for their bravery, kindness, and selflessness. However, when we are in the middle of a disaster ourselves…

Laravel tap helper function provides you with a way of writing more cleaner and one-liner code. Let's see with an example. Let’s say you need to write a function to save data into laravel Cache and access it later. One way of doing this is like this <?php namespace App\Http\Controllers; use…

My Dedicated Helpers On a day-to-day basis, I work with two very talented young people. I don’t think they will mind me telling you their names. One is called Garrick, and the other is Aisha. Garrick does all my submissions for Spotlight which is an online directory for all casting…

Currently, there is no direct way to format ActiveSupport::Duration objects in Rails. You’d have to resort to using the #inspect, which provides limited configuration options. Also, the locale support in the #inspect was removed around Rails 5.1. You could do something like the following to format an ActiveSupport::Duration object by…

I would like introduce you a simple helper class to simplify creating SQL statements using chain of responsibility design pattern. If you recall creating a sql statement dynamically while checking and ignoring null fields in where clause would be bit tedious. So let’s try to simplify the process using a…