As I prepare to take my terrifying leap into hackademia, I’ve been freelancing a lot more lately—both as a way to freshen up some of my more rusty skills (Directing leaves little room for slinging code or technical writing), and as a way to offset some of the lost income...
Eight years ago, I published an open source implementation of the command pattern for Laravel called Eloquent Interactions.
I love Laravel.
A couple years ago, I was working on a monolithic Ruby on Rails codebase that was fast approaching unmaintainability. In a month-long sprint of desperation, we hit the books and decided to come up with a plan. The solution to our problem arrived in the form of ActiveInteraction, a Ruby...
CloudFlare. Laravel. Heroku. Despite being the keywordiest article title I’ve ever written, I really did have to solve this exact problem recently, and it took me longer than I’m proud to admit. Let’s face it: SSL is a pain in the ass. At least it is when it comes to...