Conferences & Meetups
I've just booked my ticket for PHPUK 2026! After last years conference, I was 100% sure I was going back and I'm really looking forward to getting back down to London for another conference, networking with like-minded people and of course, listening to all of
Development
For our Shopify Apps at work, we have a fantastic PHP test suite for each one, using PestPHP to power them and we maintain 90% coverage. One of the gaps though is Javascript testing. We've had a couple of issues come up recently that no Pest test would
Development
At Laravel Live last year, I got to watch a talk by Dan Johnson who showed his incredible package, Pinout. Laravel Pinout allows you to control hardware via a Laravel application and I knew as soon as the talk finished, I'd have to try it out! I ended
Development
If you're writing tests for your application, you've probably came across tests that both pass and fail. These are known as flaky tests and can be quite hard to track down, especially if they only fail 1 in 100 or 1 in 1000 times. Flaky tests
Development
I'm a huge fan of RectorPHP. It makes upgrading your codebase so much easier. I'd recommend everyone goes and checks it out! I can guarantee once it's installed, you wont want to remove it! I recently heard about this package, which adds a whole
Development
One of the many things I've been working on lately is adding Leaky Bucket to the SaloonPHP Rate Limit Plugin. This request actually came in via a Github issue, but (maybe selfishly) I actually saw a use case for one of my own applications, so I set to
Development
I've seen a bunch of stuff on Twitter recently about developer certifications, specifically Laravel certifications. Of course, a couple of years ago, Taylor Otwell announced the end of the partnership with the "Laravel Certification Program". At the beginning of this year, we discontinued our official partnership
Development
This week, I've been working on getting Laravel Telescope working with SaloonPHP. This was previously doable using the SaloonPHP HTTP Client Sender package but we recently decided to abandon this package and instead build the functionality into the Laravel plugin. If you still require saloonphp/laravel-http-sender
Music
This week I was lucky enough to see The Raven Age live in Manchester on the Monarchy Tour! The Raven Age fast became one of my favourite bands after seeing them open for Iron Maiden earlier this year. ℹ️George Harris, guitarist for the Raven Age is the son of
Development
I've been using SaloonPHP for a while and one of the things I've always wanted to improve is when it comes to selecting the integration you want to add a connector, request, plugin etc to. This was a manual typing job and the amount of times
Development
I work with a lot of people. Some of them are engineers, some of them aren't. The latter then ranges from technical minded to non-technical minded. Sometimes it's tricky to have conversations with the (latter) latter when I'm trying to explain why we
Development
One of my favourite talks at Laravel Live UK earlier this year was a talk by James Titcumb about PiePHP, a project he's working on for The PHP Foundation which serves as a replacement for PECL and makes it easier to work with PHP extensions. Since that talk,