Category: PHP
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Building Scalable and Elegant Web Applications with Laravel: A Developer’s Deep Dive
Laravel has transformed the way developers build modern web applications with PHP. What once was a landscape dominated by bloated legacy codebases and spaghetti logic is now populated with clean, expressive, and powerful applications—thanks in no small part to Laravel’s… Continue reading
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Laravel 12
Laravel 12, released on February 24, 2025, continues the framework’s tradition of enhancing developer productivity and application performance. Building upon the robust foundation of Laravel 11, this latest version introduces several noteworthy updates and refinements. Key Updates in Laravel 12… Continue reading
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New Packages
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been busy working and publishing on a few new Laravel packages, which can be found here and here. There first being a logger package, and the second being one to stop destructive commands.… Continue reading
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Laravel Development
Laravel has become one of the most beloved PHP frameworks, renowned for its elegant syntax, robust features, and active community. It simplifies common tasks in web development, enabling developers to focus on crafting seamless applications. In this blog post, we’ll… Continue reading
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The Importance of Stopping Destructive Commands
One of the main differences between a local environment and a production one, is the ability to run the majority, if not all, of the Artisan commands via the terminal. However, you might not want to allow this to happen… Continue reading
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Best Practices
It’s easy as a developer to get stuck in ways of coding and doing enough of a job to a point of where if it works, it works; even if it’s not the best way to do it or using… Continue reading
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Testing, 1…2…
Whether you love it or hate it, testing is an essential part of development; whether it’s writing Unit Tests or Feature Tests, or if its QA Testing, ensuring that code you have written not only does what is intended, but… Continue reading
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Hello, World!
Welcome to the website. This is the first post. A bit of an introduction to me, I’m Matt and a web developer based in the West Midlands, specialising in Laravel, PHP, React, Vue, and MySQL. Currently, I’m working on a… Continue reading
