Wade Urry

Why am I here?

This post is a bit of a ramble I've been managing a team, officially, coming up to a year now.

File streams allow you to interact with a data source without having to load the whole resource into memory.

If there’s money for tax cuts, then there was money available for public services.

I've been working on adding a now page to my site, which is largely automated pulling in data from Apple Health, Strava, and last.fm.

2023 was by far the biggest change of my life so far.

We recently had a problem with our Laravel queue workers.

My family have been making this stuffing cake for quite a few years now, and it's a firm favourite of mine throughout the Christmas period.

We came across a bug at work related to query strings and how there’s basically no agreed way of handling complex structures, or anything beyond strings.

My home page has a couple of sections which display my health and activity data.

These are all the apps I use on a daily basis.

We started to see the following warnings after upgrading to PHP 8.0.13.

Docker secrets are a convenient and secure way of managing sensitive information that your containers need access to.

Recently put together a config for running unit and dusk tests for Laravel on CircleCI 2.0.

Here's a quick demo to show how you can still use the Dusk pages with model specific routes.

I recently ran into an issue when attempting to test a trait that registered events on an Eloquent model.

Firstly, what is server push?

Keybase provides a convenient way to verify identities by signing things.

I recently started a new side project and decided to start using Vue 2.0 seeing as it had now reached RC stage.

Recently I've been developing a Vue.js site using JSON Web Tokens (or JWT) for the authentication.

Back in April 2015 I started looking for a new car, something to replace my ageing 2004 Purgeot 206, so it had to be small, cheap to run and most importantly cheap to insure.

As of version 5.2.14 Laravel has supported pagination with Bootstrap 4 (Currently Alpha 2).

When using composer you've probably seen the 3 main operators used within the version constraints, wildcard *, tilde ~ and caret ^, each have their own uses and some which should be avoided if possible.

Digital Ocean's 512MB RAM instances are great for running a small website from, if you tighten up your configs you can actually get some pretty great performance from them, but sometimes that low amount of RAM can be an issue, particularly when you have a…

Laravel's Eloquent is a very powerful ORM however quite often in Laravel 4 I found myself creating accessors which simply cast the value to a specific type, rather than, in most cases just being a string out of the database. class MyModel extends Eloquent…

I've recently relaunched my site and as part of doing so spent quite a lot of time optimising the server and pages to make sure things load as quickly as possible, as Google has for some time been taking the page load speed into account when ranking resul…

Back in October 2015 Let's Encrypt received cross-signatures from IdenTrust, which means their certificates are now trusted by all major browsers.

2015 has been another great year, having purchased my first new car, holiday to Zakynthos, several day trips to London, and I also became an uncle. 2016 is looking to be another bumper year already having plans for two holidays, one somewhere in Europe du…

The PATH environment variable is used to store locations where executable files are found so that when we run a command its actually mapped to the executable on your filesystem.

2014 was a brilliant year, and it started off on good footing.

Just a quick post on how to install HHVM on OSX Mavericks (Also works on Mountain Lion) brew tap homebrew/dupes brew tap homebrew/versions brew tap mcuadros/homebrew-hhvm brew install hhvm I use HHVM locally to speed up composer.

So I've been dealing with quite a bit of spam recently, the usual "You're due a tax rebate open XYZ.zip and fill out the form", etc.

Recently I've been hit with some spam to my mailbox, the usual type "You've missed XYZ delivery please open the attached zip file", etc. so I set up some spam filters to reject the mail, however they didn't seem to take effect, after a week or so the amou…

What is Grunt?

Recently I've been putting together a site in my spare time for my mothers new business.

I see a lot of posts around of people struggling to get Laravel working, or installing it incorrectly using rewrites to mask the fact their Laravel installation is in fact in the document root, which is entirely wrong and insecure on many levels, although…

Composer has changed the way PHP is used, distributed and shared.

Education right now in the UK is being shaken up, quite drastically and these changes are coming from someone who has never taught in a school, Michael Gove, the Education Minister.

Today I collected some new goodies from @NovatechLtd Razer Taipan Mouse Razer Tiamat Analog Headset Asus Xonar D2X Soundcard Previously I had a Roccat Kova[+] costing around £65, it lasted nearly 2 years, which was excellent considering the amount of hours

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