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How to Become a Better Developer: Straight Talk 21 Jan 2013 | 04:58 pm
Being a good engineer is a matter of experience, knowledge, and personal philosophy / attitude. Each of these things can be individually improved upon. Intentionally analyze where you are in your care...
One-Hour Makeover - DoggySnooze.com 31 Dec 2012 | 06:59 pm
Web designers never stop designing – even when we’re just browsing the web. In my day-to-day surfing I’m always coming across sites that I’d love to redesign, whether they sell products I love, conta...
We Wrote a Laravel Book! 2 Dec 2012 | 03:56 pm
We're proud to announce the release of our first book. Laravel Starter is a "getting started" guide to Laravel 3. I've been intending to write a book for some time. Packt Publishing contacted me and ...
What We've Been Up To at Big Name 5 Oct 2012 | 02:41 pm
Big Name has been pretty busy of late and we've updated our work section to reflect just that. AccountsPortal.com Big Name provided design services for this UK-based accounting software company. Acc...
PHP Method Chaining 3 Oct 2012 | 03:37 pm
I wrote this up to answer a question on FreeNode #Laravel and I thought that someone else might find it helpful. A basic overview of how method-chaining works in PHP.
Announcing bigto.do | FreshBooks Time Tracking For To-dos 22 May 2012 | 08:10 pm
Today we are happy to announce bigto.do! bigto.do is a FreshBooks add-on for tracking time on your to-dos. We love FreshBooks, but we wanted to be more efficient when it came to incorporating our to-d...
Introduction to the Form Model 22 May 2012 | 07:10 pm
Forms are often used to interact with a specific model such as a user or a blog post. However, in many circumstances a form may collect data that is related to multiple data models. It may also have ...
Why CodeIgniter is Dead 6 May 2012 | 10:06 pm
I've written many CodeIgniter tutorials, recorded a dozen screencasts, and participated in the #codeigniter IRC support channel for years. Consequently, many people ask me why I no longer use it. I re...
Learning from Laravel's Source 15 Mar 2012 | 03:30 am
In this video I discuss using the Laravel source code as a valuable educational resource.
Application Logic in Laravel Using Routes 14 Mar 2012 | 02:58 am
In this video I discuss the basics of embedding your application logic into Laravel's routes. We revisit the topics from the the application logic in controllers screencast and approach them a bit dif...
