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My Book List For 2022 As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. This page contains affiliate links. If you choose to purchase after clicking a link, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. These

Kenny November 23, 2022January 21, 2023 Blog Posts, Uncategorized No Comments Read more

PHPStorm Shortcuts For Mac

Here are some great keyboard shortcuts I have set up to help you become more efficient in PHPStorm!

Kenny July 15, 2022January 21, 2023 Blog Posts, Uncategorized No Comments Read more

Inject Storage in Laravel

How do you inject Storage in Laravel? I’ve noticed in my Google searches that all the examples I come across on how to use the various components of Laravel only show how to use Facades. But what if you want

Kenny May 20, 2021January 21, 2023 Blog Posts, Uncategorized No Comments Read more

PHP 8 Named Arguments

In PHP 8, you can use named arguments, which allows you to provide the parameters of a function in any order: PHP 7.x PHP 8 Even if you choose not to reorder the params, it will make the code clearer

Kenny January 30, 2021January 21, 2023 Blog Posts, Uncategorized No Comments Read more

A fast way to reformat code in PHPStorm

Today I found a way to do a regex find that makes reformatting code easy. Let’s say we have some code like this: and you want it formatted like this: This is what I prefer because it gives more breathing

Kenny August 25, 2020January 21, 2023 Blog Posts, Uncategorized No Comments Read more

pushd / popd

I learned a great Linux command today! I find myself jumping between my web directory and the apache config directory occasionally on my server, and by using pushd from the web directory, I’ll now be able to quickly return to

Kenny June 10, 2020January 21, 2023 Blog Posts, Uncategorized No Comments Read more

Learning Docker

Today I finished the tutorial for Docker, located at https://www.docker.com/101-tutorial This is something I’ve been wanting to dive into for a whale (I mean while) 😉

Kenny June 9, 2020January 21, 2023 Blog Posts, Uncategorized No Comments Read more

Pipelines

Have you heard of the pipeline pattern? The pipeline pattern is used by Laravel internally, and is a really nice way to clean up your code. I found a video that explains it well. I watched yesterday, then today I

Kenny June 5, 2020January 21, 2023 Blog Posts, Uncategorized No Comments Read more

Keeping busy during trying times

Having so much time off as I have lately, I’ve been taking the opportunity to clean up my online digital world a bit. Things like creating headers for all the social accounts tied to our Basenji Adventures brand, and creating

Kenny May 7, 2020January 21, 2023 Blog Posts, Uncategorized No Comments Read more

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