A blog about Laravel and web development

Lately, I've been working on a project that has to read data from an MSSQL database. This is the setup that we used to connect to the database and solve any encoding issues.

Last week I published my first open source package. This is what I learned while working on it.

This post explains how you can create and configure a custom module for Codeception. This is the easiest way to extend on Codeception in a reusable way.

Codeception is normally configured using the codeception.yml file. We can also use a dotenv configuration file to store any sensitive data. This posts shows you how.

Any website is potentially vulnerable to different attacks. With proper security headers in place, you can minimize the risks for yourself and your visitors.

In this post, we'll look at some Laravel service provider examples. Most common use cases are shown using service providers from real open-source Laravel packages.

It's difficult to check if you need to update your dependencies. There are services that can help. This is a review of Gemnasium, VersionEye and Libraries.io, which I've tested for several weeks.

Updating dependencies can be tricky, especially if you let them build up over time. These are my tips to stay on top of any changes and make updating as painless as possible.

Writing clean and readable code is essential. Having a properly defined code style, and adhering to that, is tedious work. Let's automate it as much as possible.

Fzaninotto/Faker is a package for generating all sorts of random data. This tip shows you how you can use it to generate unique data for usage in tests.