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David Carr

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Hi, I’m Dave. A Laravel Developer. I love to build Laravel apps using the TALL stack.

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HEY Bloggers - a Hull and East Yorkshire networking event for Bloggers and Creatives

I recently learned about a launch event for HEY Bloggers, a networking event for bloggers...

David Carr

1 min read - 26th Jul, 2018

Get involved and help the NHS with The Humber Care Tech Challenge

The NHS are looking for ways to bring technology into homes to aid better care and support...

David Carr

2 min read - 26th Jul, 2018

Is GDPR set to be the death of WHOIS?

Domain registrars are getting worried. Understandably so as the threat of hefty fines for...

David Carr

3 min read - 5th Jul, 2018

Get premium keyword research without the price tag

If your trying to be found in Search engines your going to need to invest some time into k...

David Carr

4 min read - 1st Jul, 2018

Eliminate SEO errors from your website with these 3 tactics

SEO can be tricky, sometimes it can feel like everything is done right but still your webs...

David Carr

5 min read - 30th Jun, 2018

Creating a blog from scratch with PHP - Part 8 Tags Sidebar

Blog Series Part 1 - The Build Part 2 - SEO URLS Part 3 Comments with Disqus...

David Carr

2 min read - 31st May, 2018

Creating a blog from scratch with PHP - Part 7 Tags

Blog Series Part 1 - The Build Part 2 - SEO URLS Part 3 Comments with Disqus...

David Carr

5 min read - 28th May, 2018

Support me, become a Patreon!

I've joined patreon.com if you've ever wanted to help support my blog and efforts in produ...

David Carr

1 min read - 27th May, 2018

Stripe change pay panel label

When using Stripe's connect js you may want to change the button text you can do that by u...

David Carr

1 min read - 24th May, 2018

GitHub use a single SSH key for all repositories

When using SSH with GitHub you'll often need to add deploy keys to the repo to allow read...

David Carr

2 min read - 4th Apr, 2018

How Laravel's optional() helper can keep your pages running

If you've ever used Laravel ORM to create a relationship between tables you will have come...

David Carr

1 min read - 31st Mar, 2018

Laravel Importing SQL dumps with seeds

Seeding with Laravel is really useful for populating the database for instance a typical u...

David Carr

1 min read - 30th Mar, 2018

My top VS Code Extensions (Plugins)

I've recently switched from using Submit Text full time to VS Code, I'm really enjoying th...

David Carr

3 min read - 15th Feb, 2018

Laravel apply a query constraint with global scopes

Imagine your building a multi-tenancy application, in your controller your using a Contact...

David Carr

1 min read - 9th Feb, 2018

Financial year select menu

Financial years start from April to March, a common requirement is to be able to select a...

David Carr

1 min read - 8th Feb, 2018

Regular expression to convert usernames into links like Twitter

When using plain textareas it's useful to link usernames in the format as @name but won’t...

David Carr

1 min read - 8th Feb, 2018

Laravel storing mailables

Laravel's Mailable emails are perfect for sending rich HTML emails, there are times when y...

David Carr

1 min read - 8th Feb, 2018

A Brief Introduction to Gulp

What is it? Gulp is a frontend task manager. In the simplest of terms, it is a tool which...

David Carr

8 min read - 8th Feb, 2018