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9th August 2023  •  Laravel

Reduce database queries with your own Facades

Quite often in our applications we need to run a query to retrieve some data that will be used across many different elements. Facades can be used to make this query once and have the data available for the whole application to use.

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11th February 2021  •  Laravel

How to embed essential CSS styles with a custom blade directive

Just over a month ago I took the leap and started my own YouTube channel. In this article I share my experience so far and what I've learnt during the process.

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25th January 2021  •  My YouTube Journey

YouTube Journey part 1 - my first month running a YouTube channel

Just over a month ago I took the leap and started my own YouTube channel. In this article I share my experience so far and what I've learnt during the process.

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21st January 2021  •  General

How to stop Laravel setting default cookies

When I started this website I set out with a clear set of goals in mind - simple, quick and informative. One thing that doesn't fit in with those ideals is a horrible cookie banner. So I looked for a solution.

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17th January 2021  •  Laravel

Creating a Markdown Driven Blog using Laravel 8

In this post I’m going to walk you through how I created this website using Markdown files with Laravel 8, and why I chose to go that route instead of a blogging platform like Wordpress or Ghost.

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7th January 2021  •  Laravel

How I Deploy My Laravel Website With Envoy

In this article I show you how I deploy this very website using Laravel Envoy - a task running tool that uses blade syntax.

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5th January 2021  •  Laravel

Using Observers in Laravel to perform actions on model state change and clean up your code

Quite often you will need to perform actions when a model is created or changed. Say you have a Posts model, you might want to send notifications of the new post to subscribers, or you might want to notify an admin every time a post is edited.

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3rd January 2021  •  General

Welcome to Coding With Stef

Hello one and all! My name is Stef, I'm a developer leading a team in a design agency. I have 18 years of experience behind me, working for agencies mainly, and for a number of years running my own.

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