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Setting the scene Before I get into the bones of this article, I think it's worth taking the opportunity to share how I got involved with the Laravel.io project.

It’s that time of year again where our feeds start filling up with reviews of the year and, yet again, I can’t believe it’s come around so quickly. 2019 has been a great year for me personal...

A couple of months back, I release two open source packages for the Laravel community. Laravel Translation and

Scarily, another year is about to go by and I wanted to take the opportunity to reflect on everything I’ve achieved in 2018.

Building a Chatbot with Laravel and BotMan is a hands-on guide to developing your very own chatbot. The book will take you through the process of planning, building, testing and deploying your chatbot.

Recently, when working on my side hustle Zero to Grow, I ran into quite a complex database design issue.

On a recent project, I needed to provide a way for an administrator to be able to localise the content of their application in real time.

Recently, my Slack app Jukebot hit some traction after @alexdebecker and I decided to launch it on Product Hunt. This was a great experience (one that we will write about at a later date) and delivered a whole load of new signups.

First things first, what exactly is a chatbot? A quick Google will give you lots of different answers to this simple question. I have attempted my own definition with the caveat that this fledgelin...

Like all core Laravel features, sending mail is made easy and convenient by the clean and expressive API that it exposes.

I spotted a cool new feature coming in Laravel 5.5, which is going to make working with third-party packages that little bit easier. When publishing third-party resources using php artisan ve...

Ever needed to use a queue service not supported by Laravel? No, me neither! However, recently I needed to tweak the config for the SQS driver in order to utilise a couple of the Amazon configuration settings. Unfortunately, these settings are not natively exposed by Laravel, so I decided to build my own driver. Here's how it went.

What is the best use of downtime on a business trip? I guess there is no definitive answer to that question, but I would like to share with you what my colleague, Dean Withey, and I did during a meeting-less 24 hours in India last week.

Cloudflare is a great tool for, amongst a multitude of other things, taking the load off your server using some pretty amazing caching. But what if you want to bust the cache when pushing an update? Read on to find out.

Recently, I've been trialling Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk to see if it is a good fit for ubisend. After an hour or so of configuring the web environment, I had a version of our app up and run...

It took two days of highs and lows, that ultimately ended in success and it’s looking like it was worth the effort.