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 …
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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 …
Foundation v5 Unrecognized Expression Syntax Namespace Fix
Recently whilst trying to use the Zurb Foundation Abide validation component I ran into an issue where I was getting a bizarre error …
How To Stop PHP Composer Timing Out When Using "composer update" or "composer install"
At work our internet connection is painfully slow for the moment while we sort something better out and I ran into a rather interesting …
The Next Big Front-end CSS Framework: Zurb Foundation
Currently Bootstrap is still the preferred choice for prototyping web applications and rapidly getting a MVP out the door. As great and …