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Senior engineers carry the front of every decision, every code review, every on-call shift. The peloton runs best when roles rotate. When the star eventually leaves, someone else needs to know what wind feels like.
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Elasticsearch Aggregations
I have already covered how you can easily integrate Elasticsearch with your app, but I haven’t talked anything about how you can query your
Internship at madewithlove: week one
Sunday, the day before the start of my internship, I got a text message from Andreas (CEO) asking me if I wanted to join him
Learn hard, play hard #PHPBenelux2015
For 6 years in a row now, the PHPBenelux-team organized their annual conference in Antwerp. And yes, madewithlove was present! Dieter and Jonas attended the
Use gitattributes to keep your tests out of other people's production
A quick tip here, for all PHP developers out there who author packages registered on packagist.org. Add a .gitattributes file in the root of
Laravel 5 Command-Oriented Approach
A lot of shiny things around the Laravel world that I would like to talk about, so I chose the new CommandBus that Laravel 5
Integrating Elasticsearch with Your Laravel app
Yo! There’s a revamped version (2022) of this article about integrating Elasticsearch with your Laravel app. Searching is an important part of many applications,
Laravel IoC container
At work, I’m currently modernizing a legacy project without composer into an application with less code and thus fewer bugs. The first composer package
Angular 2.0: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly and The Extremely Ugly
Lately there has been some news around Angular 2.0. There are some odd things about working with Angular 1.3 that I’ve experienced
WP-CLI: WordPress Command Line Tools
Have you ever tried to automate WordPress upgrade tasks or deployments? I did, it was a big pain. Sometimes I would find myself updating WordPress
Updated htaccess tester: referrer support
We just updated our htaccess tester to support the HTTP_REFERER variable in your rewrite rules. To do so we simply added a new field
Simple htaccess tester
Last Wednesday we were struggling with some complex rewrite rules. To test them we had to set up a local server and keep hitting that
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