As knowledge workers, we spend a lot of time moving between applications and rearranging windows on our computers. This can take up a lot of our day and this is compounded if we have large or multiple monitors. By learning some of the features built into macOS Catalina we can operate more effectively and in turn generate better code faster.
This post was adapted into the video Window Management in MacOS Catalina if you prefer to listen to this post.
Read MoreLaravel 8.x came out on 9/8/2020 and we wanted to create a post for how to update our applications to the newest version of Laravel.
Read MoreOne of the most important and yet hardest decisions we will have to make with event sourcing is how granular our events should be. There isn’t a single answer for this and it’s a decision we’ll have to make on a case by case basis as new events need to be created.
Read MoreForeign key constraints in SQL provide an excellent way to make sure that our databases don’t have orphaned records or invalid relationships. They can be a bit finicky if we’re not paying attention when we create them. This article will discuss how to fix one of the more opaque errors when we’re creating foreign key constraints.
Read MorePHP 8 is on its way and we wanted to have the opportunity to work with it for some of our future expansions at ThisProgrammingThing.com (sign up for our mailing list to learn when it launches). This guide will explain how to install a bare-bones version of PHP 8.0.0 Beta 1 on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa).
Before we get started this should NOT be installed on a production server. This build exists to demo the new core features and doesn’t include a lot of the common features (like PDO).
Read MoreThis post is the companion piece to my presentation at Midwest PHP 2020. It contains helpful links and reading selections.
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