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Using Laravels Homestead from your project
I love Laravel's Homestead environment. I've been using it since it was first released and have found it incredibly handy. I often use it for non-Laravel uses as well. It's a great PHP 5.6+ / nginx / MySQL vagrant box. With Homestead version 2, Homestead was changed to run from your home folder and it pushed you more towards using one Homestead machine for all of your Laravel projects. This is...
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OpenWest Conference 2015
I had the fortunate opportunity to speak at the 2015 OpenWest Conference and it was a great experience. I've never been to Utah and flying into Salt Lake City was beautiful. The mountains around Salt Lake City and Orem were absolutely amazing. The conference badges were great and really helped people get excited about hardware hacking. It was a soldering project with an expansion that could be...
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Homebrew PHP and MAMP MySQL socket fun
While setting up a new project in MAMP for my day job I ran into an odd problem trying to run artisan migrations. Running this command: Threw this error: A quick google search came up with this which pointed to: Changing that fixed my issue, but what was the actual cause of the issue? I installed PHP locally using Homebrew, and MAMP is using it's own versions of PHP and since I was...
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Speaking Engagements! A Brief Recap
"Insert clever statement of ‘it's been a long time since I last posted here'" Now that we have that out of the way, the past few months have been quite busy for me. I gave my "Laravel Forge: Hello World to Hello Production" talk at the first php[world] conference (organized by the great people behind php[tek] and php[architect] magazine) and it was my first non-local conference...
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