React, Apollo
Build Better User Experiences with Mocked Apollo Queries
Whether you're practicing Test Driven Development or Storybook Driven Development the ability to mock data is extremely important, and I don…
Written by Chris Hayes, a passionate Software Engineer building great user experiences with quality code.
Personal
New Site Fresh Out the Oven
You'd think a "professional" developer would smash out their personal site quick , right? That's what I thought when I started rebuilding…
Laravel
Object Oriented Form & HTML Macros
In an earlier post I talked about how to utilize form and HTML macros to DRY up your views. The one thing I don’t like about these form…
Laravel
Using whereHas() with HasManyThrough Relationships
I’ve discovered an issue with Eloquent in which using the whereHas() method with a HasManyThrough relationship returns the wrong results…
Laravel
DRY Up Your Views With Form & HTML Macros
This is just a quick post to give a couple of examples where form/HTML macros are useful, and to advocate their usage in general. Reusable…
Laravel
Wrap Form Elements With This Form Macro
This trick is handy for wrapping all of your form elements with the same HTML/classes, which is especially useful for handling error states…
Laravel
Laravel Extended Validator
I released my first Laravel 4 package today, which is a couple of classes that build on top of Laravel’s Validator library. Take a look at…
Laravel
Elegant Growl-Like Notifications
Here is an extremely simple and elegant way to send Growl-like notifications to your users. It requires the Notifications package for…
Laravel
Setting Up and Utilizing Environments
Have you ever developed your application locally, then taken it live on your production server and had to manually change your app…
PHP
Why Pagoda Box is Not Ready for Primetime
I recently launched my fifth app on Pagoda Box , and although I love the concept and the workflow it just isn’t ready for primetime. The…
Laravel
Methods for Staying Organized
Laravel 4 already has a place for pretty much everything, so it feels organized out of the box. However, the larger your application is the…
PHP
Scenic Views with PHP
Scenic View is a tiny library that provides view and template inheritance. The syntax is straight PHP but is very clean and expressive. The…
Laravel
Generating Unique Slugs Elegantly
Using slugs in URLs is a great alternative to strictly using integers (ids), as it improves SEO by allowing you to get more context in the…
Laravel
Easily Cache Eloquent Collections
I found an article by Mark van Eijk that outlines how to easily cache Eloquent results by using the following syntax: I wanted to point…
PHP
Facebook Page Tab Cookie Fix
The Problem Having problems setting cookies in a Facebook iFrame app? Safari 6 (and other browsers will soon follow) now disables third…
PHP
Facebook API: Check User Permissions
Here is a simple function (modified from a class I wrote to simplify Facebook API calls) to check if there are discrepencies between the…
Motiviation
Why I Wash the Dishes at Work
This is a scene that is all too familiar at most work places: dirty dishes left by the sink. I am fortunate enough to have a dish washer at…