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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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Otto the successor to Vagrant (portable development environments)

HashiCorp the company behind the hugely successful portable development environments softw...

David Carr

2 min read - 29th Sep, 2015

Unheap - A tidy repository of jQuery plugins

Today I came across unheap.com a fantastic site featuring 980 jQuery plugins (at the time...

David Carr

1 min read - 29th Sep, 2015

Leverage PHP to decrease page load times

I’ve been looking at my site’s load time in yslow it started out at 78, I’ve been looking...

David Carr

3 min read - 27th Aug, 2015

Language tends on Github for 2015

Github has posted an article on the popularity tends for languages on Github since 2008:...

David Carr

1 min read - 22nd Aug, 2015

Sending emails with PHPMailer and Mandrill

Sending emails with PHP’s mail function is not recommended it’s not reliable and hard to d...

David Carr

3 min read - 22nd Aug, 2015

Useful Google Chrome Tips

Google Chrome has lots of hidden options, the following tips are some of my favourites. T...

David Carr

2 min read - 22nd Aug, 2015

Duplicate form sections with jQuery

When working with forms it can be incredibly useful to duplicate parts of the form, for in...

David Carr

3 min read - 22nd Aug, 2015

Reading markdown files with parsedown

Read me files on GitHub are written in Markdown, I wanted to be able to grab the contents...

David Carr

1 min read - 18th Jul, 2015

Create a list of items from a folder using scandir

Quick tip to create a list page that will read the files from a directory and link to them...

David Carr

1 min read - 18th Jul, 2015

Book Review: Building Secure PHP Apps

I’ve just finished reading Building Secure PHP Apps by Ben Edmunds. A security ebook very...

David Carr

2 min read - 18th Jul, 2015

Scraping GitHub

For an upcoming project I need to be able to dynamically get information about a GitHub re...

David Carr

2 min read - 17th Jul, 2015

comparing multiple values against in_array

PHP's in_array is useful to determine if an item is in an array but when needing to compar...

David Carr

2 min read - 17th Jul, 2015

Using Premailer to convert styles to inline styles for HTML emails automatically with PHP

Sending HTML emails can be tricky, not all mail clients support the same css. Most ignore...

David Carr

8 min read - 12th Jul, 2015

PHP 7 Beta released

PHP recently announced the released: PHP 7.0.0 Beta 1, PHP 5.5.27 & PHP 5.6.11. As with...

David Carr

2 min read - 11th Jul, 2015

Code Club kids earn their first term certificate

Today I’ve been to a very special Code Club assembly, to present a certificate to my class...

David Carr

2 min read - 9th Jul, 2015

PHP 7 Alpha 1 released

Yesterday PHP 7.0.0 alpha 1 was released: #PHP 7.0.0 alpha 1 is here! Get it from http:/...

David Carr

2 min read - 13th Jun, 2015

My PHP Story - 20 years of PHP

Today is PHP’s 20th birthday! it’s incredible to think what it has become today. Thinking...

David Carr

2 min read - 8th Jun, 2015

Speed up your website using minify

One of the factors to consider when improving your search engine ranking is page speed. Re...

David Carr

3 min read - 12th Apr, 2015