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Posts on development — Page 13
A mix of technical deep-dives, career reflections, and dispatches from the road.
developmentMar 25, 2016· 3 min
Laravel and WebSockets
A step-by-step guide to setting up real-time WebSockets with Laravel using Redis, Socket.io, and Supervisor — broadcasting Laravel events to the browser…
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developmentMar 5, 2016· 2 min
Laravel Forge, Digital Ocean and WebSockets
A follow-up to the Laravel WebSockets setup guide — how to configure Redis and Socket.io daemons on a Digital Ocean server using Laravel Forge and open the…
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developmentJan 16, 2016· 2 min
Why Does ExpressionEngine Save Templates in the Database?
A curious look at ExpressionEngine's decision to store templates in the database — the tradeoffs around version control, file-based overrides, and why…
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developmentJan 12, 2016· 3 min
Quickly Install Applications on Your Mac With Homebrew and Cask
How to use Homebrew and Cask to bulk-install Mac applications from a script — a reliable way to get your machine back up and running quickly after a clean…
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developmentDec 24, 2015· 3 min
Why Would You Use a Fixed Header?
A take on why fixed headers are almost never the right choice — how they cover content, frustrate users, and only make sense in the narrow case of…
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developmentDec 8, 2015· 2 min
Vue.js Component Messaging Continued
A follow-up to the Vue.js component messaging post — exploring a prop-based approach to namespaced events so multiple instances of the same component on a…
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developmentDec 7, 2015· 4 min
Vue.js Component Messaging
A walkthrough of how to pass events between sibling Vue.js components — using the root Vue instance as a message bus to dispatch alerts from any component…
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developmentDec 5, 2015· 2 min
Experimenting With Laravel and Vue.js
First impressions of Laravel and Vue.js coming from the WordPress world — covering Elixir, Homestead, Blade templates, and Vue's reactive data model, with…
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developmentSep 29, 2015· 3 min
Setting Up Your Shell
A beginner-friendly guide to setting up a better terminal on Mac — installing iTerm2, switching to zsh, and customizing colors and fonts so the command line…
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