Laravel

February-2018.php

Why PHP 7.2 Is Important thephp.cc gives an overview of some of the internal changes that have happened to PHP over the last few versions, to try and discover the actual impact of these changes. Based on this they discuss some of the behind the scene...

September-2017.php

Another month is coming to an end, and again that means I'll try to summarize some of the most interesting articles I've read. Because of holidays, it's been a pretty short month for me work-wise. That also means that this month's list is pretty shor...

August-2017.php

Once again a month is coming to an end and, as is becoming the habit, I've gathered a bunch of interesting tech articles that caught my eye during the last month. First up, Matthias Noback has a 3-part series about his approach to application archite...

July-2017.php

Even though July was a pretty quiet month online due to everybody being on vacation, I still came across some interesting articles. Earlier in the year, there was a big discussion in the PHP community after some people suggested that pretty much ever...

Laravel file logging based on severity

Per default anything logged in a Laravel application will be logged to the file: storage/logs/laravel.log, this is fine for getting started, but as your application grows you might want something that's a bit easier to work with. Laravel comes with a...

Lazy loading, eager loading and the n+1 problem

In this article I'll look into a few data loading strategies, namely: Lazy loading Eager loading Lazy-eager loading I'll talk a bit about the pros and cons of each strategy, and common issues developers might run into. Especially the n+1 problem, a...

Wrapping up Laracon EU 2016

Last week I spend some days in Amsterdam attending Laracon EU 2016. It was two very interesting days, and I think the general level of the talks was very high compared to other conferences I've attended. The location and the catering was also really ...