databases
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Boulevards of broken dreams
When speaking to any experienced software developer, there’s a good chance at some point they will tell you all about the countless incomplete side projects that they have accumulated over the years – the projects that still sit dormant in their Git repositories. The side hustles that failed to materialise and were gradually swept away
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Finding one’s place within the pack
Back in January, I silenced the sceptical voices in my head and conquered my impostor syndrome. I stepped away from the comfort and familiarity of my role at Stickee – a company where I was fortunate enough to cut my teeth and spend four years honing my craft with bleeding-edge Laravel technologies – in search
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Don’t truncate in Laravel Excel imports
One of the greatest things about Laravel Excel is its event system – you can easily register closures or classes to be executed during certain events in the import lifecycle, such as before and after the import. I’ve often wanted to truncate a database table to import the data ‘fresh’ before an import – I
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Switching back to WordPress
For the past five or so years, I’ve meandered back and forth between various site generators: Gatsby, Hugo, Jekyll, and most recently, Jigsaw. It has been an exercise in tedium keeping the website up-to-date and wrestling with whatever template or starter kit I had used, and honestly, I simply cannot be bothered with it at
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You should be coding
There’s no doubt about it. Software engineering as a continuously evolving and advancing discipline that often requires programmers to be equally steadfast in their advancement. For new developers, perhaps those undertaking a self-taught journey or have recently joined or graduated from a boot camp, they will often look to the tech side of Twitter, Dev.to, and other communities for inspiration on how