Recent content by owlmanatt

Chris Fideloper released the first section of his new webcast series, Performant Laravel, this morning. Included was a really good introduction to indexing your database tables. If you're unfamiliar with this topic, I highly recommend giving these three videos a run through...

I've seen some mention of Laravel around these parts. I'm doing something with Lumen, which is Laravel's micro-framework edition, so I thought I'd post some thoughts on the two. As I said, Lumen is a micro-framework. The primary use-case is for building REST APIs, so everything to do with...

## Introduction Version control is the practice of keeping every revision of your source code. Using version control software will allow you to see changes over time and retrieve earlier versions of files. I'm sure that, before updating something, you've created a something_important.php.bk...