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June 24, 2018

Adding custom claims to the Laravel Passport JWT

One of the advantages of using JSON Web Tokens as the transport for your authentication layer (such as OAuth) is that you can attach additional data in the form of public claims (see the relevant RFC...

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March 7, 2018

Debugging With Logs

When you develop your apps locally, you probably (hopefully) use something like Xdebug. However, how do you debug production and staging errors? The answer is logs. By sending log messages in...

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January 28, 2018

Using VPC Peering to Share Internal Services on AWS

If you use AWS to run your infrastructure, you're likely to run your production and staging environments in different VPCs, or even different accounts altogether. However, if you want to run shared...

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January 22, 2018

Setting up Xdebug for Docker Development in PhpStorm

+++ Big thanks to Luke Waite who did most of the heavy lifting to figure this out over at Intouch. Do you still throw in dd(), or var_dump() and die() in your...

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November 10, 2017

Request and Response Logging with Laravel: Debug Heaven

Debugging. Don't you just hate it when someone tells you your API isn't working? "I get some internal error", "it says not found", "it says not authorised even when I use the JWT". Yeah, bugs suck,...

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May 11, 2017

Dead Simple Docker Development with Laravel

After recently talking about Docker and Vagrant on an episode of Larachat Live, I realised it'd probably be nice with a short little guide on getting started with Docker environments in Laravel...

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May 21, 2016

Making Spark Your Own

This article was originally posted on Medium by Ahad L. Amdani Introduction to Spark Spark Up What You Have The Spark Philosophy A Closer Look at the Innards of Spark Making Spark Your Own...

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May 14, 2016

A Closer Look at the Innards of Spark

Introduction to Spark Spark Up What You Have The Spark Philosophy A Closer Look at the Innards of Spark Making Spark Your Own Laravel Spark comes with a lot of features built in, but how does...

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May 10, 2016

The Spark Philosophy

Introduction to Spark Spark Up What You Have The Spark Philosophy A Closer Look at the Innards of Spark Making Spark Your Own First of all, even though it's already been done earlier in the...

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May 7, 2016

Spark Up What You Have

Introduction to Spark Spark Up What You Have The Spark Philosophy A Closer Look at the Innards of Spark Introductory (Warning) Words “Should I integrate Spark?” Backup your database,...

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