Ash Allen Design

Read the round up for May 2022 which includes a new version of Tinkerwell, new articles and guest posts, and a new project built to help encourage open source contributions in the Laravel community.

Get an insight into the life of the Laravel developer, James Brooks.

Read about how to use the Laravel Permission package by Spatie to add policies to your Laravel applications.

Learn about how to use the Laravel Config Validator (ashallendesign/laravel-config-validator) package to validate your Laravel app's config values.

Read about how to use the Favicon Fetcher (ashallendesign/favicon-fetcher) package to get website's favicons in your Laravel applications.

Read about what's happened in the Laravel world in April 2022.

Read 20 useful tips that you can use in your Laravel projects.

Read about the new additions that have been to Short URL in v7.0.0.

Read about the new changes that have been added to Laravel Config Validator, including a new refactor and many bug fixes.

Read about news in the Laravel world from March, including a new documentary, a new Laravel Valet release, and a really cool side project that prints GitHub issues from a receipt printer.

Learn about using '::query()' in your Laravel Eloquent queries and when you might want to use it.

Learn about the Laravel ecosystem and the different first-party services and packages are available.

Read a round up of the Laravel and PHP news of January 2022.

Learn about what caching is, the benefits of using it, and how we can use it in Laravel.

Read about 13 different websites that you can use to generate placeholder images and profile pictures for your websites and projects.

Read a round up of the Laravel and PHP news of January 2022.

Read my round-up of 2021.

Learn about type safety and the Type Safe PHP package that you can use to add more type safety to your projects.

Learn about how to use HTML5 semantic elements to improve the accessibility, maintenance, and SEO of your website.

Learn about how you can use Honeybadger in your Laravel applications to add error monitoring, queue monitoring and uptime checking.

Learn about the new features in the Laravel package Short URL.

This article covers how to use the jenssegers/agent package in Laravel to get your websites visitors' device, browser, and operating system versions.

Learn about how to use the ashallendesign/laravel-exchange-rates package to get exchange rates and currency conversions in your Laravel application.

Learn about how to use a custom alphabet in the ashallendesign/short-url package.

Learn about how to use database transactions in Laravel to improve data accuracy.

Read about how to determine when to write tests for your website or application.

Learn about how to set up Tailwind CSS in your Laravel projects.

Learn how to add breadcrumbs to your website using the diglactic/laravel-breadcrumbs package.

Learn about how to test that your Laravel controllers redirect to signed routes correctly.

Learn about 17 different ways that you can update your website to help it grow and drive more traffic.

Learn about interfaces and abstract classes in PHP.

Download your free copy of "The Clean Coder's Guide to Laravel".

Learn how to create and register your own PHP helpers in Laravel.

Learn how to clean up controllers in Laravel by using form requests, actions, and services.

Learn about the strategy pattern and how we can use it in your Laravel codebase to improve the extendability and maintainability of your code.

Learn how to use interfaces in your PHP code to improve extendability, readability, and testability.

Read about the 5 lessons that I learned from building the Laravel Exchanges Rates package and how it changed my perspective towards from development as a web developer.

Learn how to force eager loading and prevent lazy loading in your Laravel application.

Read 7 different top tips for new developers straight from CTOs, directors, developers and recruiters.

Learn how to use the new sole() method on Laravel collections.

Learn how to create a new Laravel macro and register it in a service provider.

Learn how to use the whereInstanceOf method to filter Laravel Collections.

Learn how to make your Laravel app more testable by using dependency injection, mocking and the service container.

Learn how to validate emails and check if they exist by using the Laravel Mailbox Layer package.

Learn about 8 free and paid resources that you can use for learning how to use Laravel.

Learn 6 easy ways that you can improve your Laravel website's performance and speed.

WordPress can be used for building websites but is it always the best solution for your new business website?

Follow these 5 steps to increase your conversion rate on your website and improve your sales to make more money.

Creating professional looking graphics for your website, blog and social media posts doesn't have to be expensive.

Getting a pay-monthly website for your small business may help you to grow your online presence.