Web Applications

Laravel Stubs

Stubs are class templates that come with Laravel. They get used behind the scenes whenever you create new files within your project. Stubs are hidden from view by default, so I don’t think they are appreciated enough. Chances are, if you have worked with Laravel, you’ve used an artisan make command to make a new …

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Observers in Laravel

During development on a web project, you may need something to occur when a database table is modified. For example, you might want to send a confirmation notification to a user whenever a record is created. Or you might want to create a record in a log table whenever a record is updated or deleted. …

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Laravel Notifications for Email

If you’re looking into sending email from Laravel, you will most likely find information about Laravel Mail, and rightly so, as it’s a powerful way to send emails. In our experience, though, there’s a simpler way to go about sending email, and it’s the method we’ll reach for first–Laravel Notifications. Not only are notifications simple, …

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Custom Software Development vs. Off-the-Shelf Applications

I work for a custom software developer. As such, my biggest competitors are not other custom developers or even new technologies. My biggest competitor is apathy, where the customer does not make any decision, or they choose an off-the-shelf application (also known as commercial-off-the-shelf applications, or COTS). COTS applications are prebuilt for a specific niche …

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Legacy App

Modernization Services: Rescuing Your Legacy Applications

Many organizations use applications that perform critical day-to-day operations, but are suboptimal in terms of accessibility and speed of execution, or run on an outdated platform. Fortunately, there are several ways to modernize legacy applications with the use of various framework and technologies, such as Laravel or OutSystems. What is a legacy application? A legacy …

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Laravel Jobs

Queueing Laravel Jobs To Be Processed By A Worker

The worker is a separate process that is dedicated to processing the jobs in your queue. Adding a worker process will tie all these pieces together, and you’ll end up with improved UX, scalability, and flexibility, all while keeping standardized code that’s elegant to read.

App Developer

How to Find an App Developer

The success of an application development project will often hinge on choosing the right app developer. Since the field of app development includes a wide range of specialties, and each developer has a unique set of experiences and skills, finding the right person for the job can be difficult and time-consuming. This article will show …

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Send Emails from a Dev Environment

How to Get Started with a Mail Server for Development

When the email task we’re working on is still underway, we want to avoid sending emails to people outside our development team, and even then we try to avoid inundating that short list of people with a slew of emails as minor adjustments continually get made and are tested.