Joe Ferguson

In Memphis, I'm the guy known for starting stuff.

How I use Homestead in my Laravel (and non-Laravel) Applications I feel like I've been talking about homestead a lot lately.

I've previously shared a project I built that allowed you to easily add the Laravel Homestead vagrant environment into your project.

I was recently contacted by someone who saw my post about being a PHP mentor on PHPMentoring.org and was curious if I was still open to taking an apprentice.

I love Laravel's Homestead environment.

I had the fortunate opportunity to speak at the 2015 OpenWest Conference and it was a great experience.

While setting up a new project in MAMP for my day job I ran into an odd problem trying to run artisan migrations.

"Insert clever statement of ‘it's been a long time since I last posted here'" Now that we have that out of the way, the past few months have been quite busy for me.

Last Friday I was enjoying an after work beer at my favorite taproom with Brian and Nicole.

No one ever wants to start a user group until they've already made their mind up they're going to start a user group.

Back in February 2014 I was contacted by php[architect] magazine about turning one of the talks I submitted to php[tek] 2014 (among many other conferences) into a magazine article.

I'm going to start out by saying this: I'm probably not doing this the "right" way.

Update!

I had a really hard time piecing this together so I thought I'd share it and maybe it would help someone (or me in 2 months when I forget all of this and stumble upon it again).

I never was a big EDM/Dance music fan.

This weekend I will be at GiveCamp Memphis.

Have you ever run across a repository that you'd love to throw into your project via composer and the repository author didn't include composer.json?

I didn't realize how much I used ScreenCloud until it broke when I upgraded to Ubuntu 13.10.

At my day job I work on a proprietary CMS written in PHP.

I've had my Razer Black Widow Ultimate for a long time now.

So it was next to impossible to find a domain that wasn't completely terrible.