Have you ever wanted to stop all Docker containers running on your machine? Well, today is your lucky day! The following command is all you need to stop all containers! That’s it! That will stop them all and you can…
How To Use UUIDs Instead of Numeric IDs in Laravel 6
There are many reasons you may wish to use a UUID instead of a numerical ID in your Laravel 6 project, and in this post I will document the process for doing so. First, you’ll want to update any migrations…
2019. A Year In Review.
A new tradition I’m starting is writing about what has changed over the course of the last year, and looking at what I hope to achieve over the course of the next year. This whole thing seems rather odd, to…
Laravel Facades Suck
Ok this one might be a bit controversial, but I feel this needs to be said. Facades seem like a weird middleman that just doesn’t add anything useful. Here’s why. I work with a lot of PHP SDKs on a…
Nobody Cares What Tech You Use
I see debates raging online all the time about using the latest and greatest technology. Usually the debates at some point slag off older languages over the “new hotness”. I’m writing a short, ranty post I feel needs to be…
Shipping My Second Package
Today I’m publishing my second PHP package / library very early on. This one isn’t intended to be a full system integration or anything like my last one, but rather just a collection of helpful functions I use day in…
Help! Magento Won’t Login!
At work recently we had a customer call in with an urgent problem on a Magento website that we support for them. The problem was that for some users they couldn’t login – we thought this sounded a bit strange.…
My First Open Source PHP Package
For a long time I’ve been wanting to have an open source PHP project that I actively maintain. Now, as part of a new project I’m building, I’ve decided to open source one of the most core parts of it.…
DML: Step Two, Keep ‘Er Goin’
Yeah, it’s been a while. I know. I’m sorry (I’m not sorry). When I say a while, I do of course mean that the last post was six months ago. Oops. But it’s ok, there has been some progress! Some,…
Time To Kill A Project
Sometimes the best thing for a project is to kill it rather than neglect it