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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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How many KCOM engineers does it take to install Lightstream in one flat?

I can’t tell you, so far I’ve counted 6 and yet still my property is yet to be connected....

David Carr

4 min read - 21st Sep, 2016

PHP reverse date using strtotime

I use datepickers a lot in my projects the date’s default to the American YYYY-MM-DD forma...

David Carr

1 min read - 26th Jul, 2016

Changing default mysql password for MySQL 5.7 on a Mac

Today’s I’ve reinstalled my os and decided to install mysql in terminal I didn’t make a no...

David Carr

1 min read - 23rd Jul, 2016

Open current terminal directory in Sublime Text

Being able to open the current directory from terminal in Sublime Text is very useful, I’v...

David Carr

1 min read - 18th Jul, 2016

Installing php 7 on Mac

Setting up a mac to run php 7 instead of the default php 5.5. First install Homebrew if...

David Carr

1 min read - 15th Jul, 2016

Installing Laravel installer globally on Mac

Laravel comes with a handy command line installer, once installed can be ran anywhere from...

David Carr

1 min read - 15th Jul, 2016

PHP 5.5 is now end of live, upgrade to 5.6 or higher.

As of the 10th July 2016 php 5.5 is officially end of life, as a result it should not be u...

David Carr

1 min read - 10th Jul, 2016

Developers Resources

The following is collection of useful developer resources. Beginner Guides Resources (bo...

David Carr

2 min read - 2nd Jul, 2016

Fixed header on scroll

A common web trend is to allow a static header stick to the top of the page when scrolling...

David Carr

1 min read - 30th Jun, 2016

Hide form elements easily with conditionize.js

When working with forms it’s common to hide or show form elements based on a condition, th...

David Carr

1 min read - 29th Jun, 2016

Mac: Wrap any website to a desktop app using Fluid

I’ve been thinking recently that it would be really nice be able to have a website wrapped...

David Carr

1 min read - 17th Jun, 2016

Autoscroll page with jQuery

There are times when it’s really useful for a webpage to scroll up and down automatically....

David Carr

6 min read - 17th May, 2016

How to submit a form with JavaScript by clicking a link

When working with forms, to submit them input type=’submit’ or button type=’submit’ are us...

David Carr

1 min read - 15th May, 2016

Github announces unlimited private repositories

Today Github has announced private repo’s are now unlimited for upgraded accounts, for org...

David Carr

1 min read - 11th May, 2016

Gitlab download private repository as tar.gz with php

Gitlab is a great alternative to Github or BitBucket, they offer free private and public r...

David Carr

4 min read - 16th Apr, 2016

Bash loop through files and FTP them

I have a folder of csv files that need uploading to a server I don’t want to do it manuall...

David Carr

2 min read - 6th Apr, 2016

Nova 3.0 released

Version 3.0 has been released of Nova Framework, (Nova is the new name, replacing Simple M...

David Carr

1 min read - 28th Mar, 2016

5 free beautiful bootstrap themes

Wow themes have recently released these 5 great themes perfect for your next project. La...

David Carr

1 min read - 23rd Mar, 2016