Early on in my career as a developer I struggled with a lot of the same questions almost every other developer face. One of the major issues developers face is something called impostor syndrome. Almost every developer I have ever met regardless of their skill level think they are just an average to below average ...
In a recent project we use AWS S3 to store files. Originally I was uploading the files like normal then using Laravel’s built in File Storage to move the files to S3. However this seemed like a waste to upload files to my server that were going to get moved to another server. So I ...
A couple months ago a friend and I did a live coding demo for a local developer meetup group. The project we took on was building a simple tool to allow users to schedule tweets to be sent a specific time in the future. I created a backend REST API in PHP using Laravel 5.2 ...
I few months ago a friend of mine was doing some frontend development and need to mock out some API calls. In the past I’ve used tools like apiary or swagger to document APIs and even mock out endpoints. He was in a rush so neither were a great option. Both of these tools require ...
This is the second part of this post. If you missed the first part, we wrote all the PHP code for the WebSocket server and got it running. We are going to work on the frontend in this post. If you haven’t read part one, I would read it first. Simple PHP Websocket Application with ...