How to Install Laravel Spark
Doing a fresh install of Laravel Spark or even an upgrade has proved problematic almost every time i attempt it....
Software development and everything in-between
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How to use Laravel Forge with Amazon Web Services EC2
Laravel Forge is a great tool to help you provision your own servers, however if you want to use AWS...
Backup MySQL database to Digital Ocean Spaces
Creating backups of your database is a no-brainer. There are lots of guides on how to do this and upload...
Notifications delayed on Android Pie?
Just recently I noticed that notifications for WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger were not coming through. They'd only show if I...
Laravel Queue Delays Not Working
Using Laravel 5.7 queues along with Redis I found that whilst the events were being dispatched and handled by the...
Upload and fetch images using Digital Ocean Spaces and Laravel 5
I needed a place to securely store my files offsite and Amazon S3 was a obvious choice at time (2016)....
Cached values not showing in Redis
Recently I wasn't able to access any cached values in Redis. I knew the values were being saved, but no...
Custom API error messages with Laravel 5+
I've been building an API using Laravel 5.6 and one of the things which I wanted to do was to...
Can't write image data to path - Intervention Image
I recently came across the following error when using Intervention Image with Laravel 5.6: "Can't write image data to path...
How to set file permissions for Laravel 5 on mac OSX
Every time I do a fresh install of Laravel I always run into the same error where laravel.log couldn't be...
Google Authenticator not working? Your server could be out of sync
I recently came across a strange issue where the Google Authenticator we use suddenly stopped working. It worked fine on...
Perfect PageSpeed score using Bootstrap and mod_pagespeed
I've never really gave the PageSpeed score of the websites that i've built too much consideration, as long as they...