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Working with bank holidays with a Carbon wrapper

Working with dates in php is easy but working with bank holidays is a little more involved...
David Carr

David Carr

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Using Carbon time ago aka diffForHumans() with Nova Framework

Carbon is an amazing date library that is included with Nova. One of it’s features is bein...
David Carr

David Carr

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Fixing Chrome Syncing problem

Recently I reinstalled Google Chrome signed into my Google account to sync my passwords. M...
David Carr

David Carr

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MySQL next record order by title

A common requirement for web applications is the ability to be able to move to the next an...
David Carr

David Carr

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MySQL find and replace

There are times when you need to bulk update a database. Such as changing all references o...
David Carr

David Carr

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Free SSL's with A2hosting and Let's Encrypt

Recently many browsers will start flagging sites that do not use the HTTPS protocol as uns...
David Carr

David Carr

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Using MAMP and dealing with the error: mysql No such file or directory

I’ve got a fresh install of Nova Framework installed and decided to use MAMP as my server...
David Carr

David Carr

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Creating an alias in terminal

I often run local sites from a projects folder that is stored in a dropbox folder the full...
David Carr

David Carr

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Splitting an array into smaller arrays using array_chunk

There a times when you have an array and need to slit that array into smaller ones, I usua...
David Carr

David Carr

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Get a free SSL certificate using Cloudflare

Cloudflare will give you a free SSL certificate, the steps involved are really simple, thi...
David Carr

David Carr

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Quick way to get the number of days in a month with PHP

I’m building a php calendar and need to know the total number of days in a month in the pa...
David Carr

David Carr

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Cases where php's short tags should be avoided

When designing my email layout files I like to break them down into parts and include them...
David Carr

David Carr

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My office setup

At work we recently moved into a new building, my desk setup changed as a result a few peo...
David Carr

David Carr

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Using X-editable for inline editing

X-editable allows you to create editable elements on your page. Includes both popup and in...
David Carr

David Carr

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Bear writing app for iPhone, iPad and Mac

I’ve heard a lot of people talking about how good a writing app called Bear was, after hea...
David Carr

David Carr

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Stop Bootstrap drop menu's being cut off in responsive tables

Bootstrap’s dropdown menu’s a great for display items in a tidy way but suffer for being c...
David Carr

David Carr

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Laravel 5.3 login with username instead of email

Laravel’s built in auth system uses an email address and password to validate credentials...
David Carr

David Carr

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Laravel 5.3 send errors to email

Errors in Laravel are logged to files. That’s useful for monitoring when things go wrong....
David Carr

David Carr

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