An article by Geoff Wozniak titled What ORM's have taught me: just learn SQL was doing the rounds of Hacker News today and raises some …
Is The Ebola Outbreak Merely An Outbreak or Biological Warfare?
Unless you've been living under a rock on Mars with your fingers in your ears, then you have heard about the latest health scare to hit the …
Mass Assignment in Laravel 4
A wonderful feature of Ruby on Rails and also coincidentally in Laravel 4 is mass assignment. Basically you can throw an array of values at …
Databases: Should You Normalise or Denormalise Your Tables?
When it comes to structuring your MySQL database you have one of two choices. You can normalise your schema or you can denormalise it. Both …
Laravel Form Validation For Float Values Using Regex Rules
Recently whilst building a Laravel 4 application, I needed to validate some monetary values in the form of: 10.00, 5.00 and so on. …
What’s The Difference Between Views and Stored Procedures in SQL?
There is a lot of confusion when it comes to MySQL and views versus stored procedures. Many people often wonder what the difference is …
Fixing Sequel Pro SQL Encoding Error For Imported SQL Files
Now that I use a Mac for work I use Sequel Pro for administering databases (at home I use Navicat, but can't warrant the expense for work …
Replacing Blade with Twig Templating in Laravel
I actually really like the Blade templating parser that Laravel ships with, but I know there are many who do not like it. Funny story about …
Regular Expression For Validating Australian Phone Numbers (Including landline and mobile)
Recently I was tasked with writing a regular expression that would check for a valid Australian phone number for both landline and mobile …