Dries Vints

Web Developer / Github / Laravel

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  • Laravel Weekly #9

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    Another week, another issue. I’ve got something special in mind for #10. Might be that next week’s issue will be in a slightly different format than the one you’re reading now. Very excited about that.

    Laravel 4′s release date has been set for next week Tuesday. We can almost start using it to build applications which will be stable for production.

    There’s a lot of cool stuff happening for Laravel in the upcoming weeks. I’ll try to keep you guys up-to-date on everything that’s happening in Laraland. Read more »

  • Laravel Weekly #8

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    I changed the name again! Will this be the last time? Probably not!

    I’ll be tweeting these posts with #laravelweekly from now on. I also have a couple of ideas in mind for future editions for these posts. Stay tuned :)

    Again, if you’d like to see your resources, packages, articles, you name it in these posts, just mention them to me on twitter or email me. Read more »

  • Laravel 4 Quick Tip: Custom Error Pages

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    Here’s a quick tip on how to create custom error pages in Laravel 4. Laravel has a default built-in event listener for errors attached to the application instance. You can pass it a callback which will provide you with two variables, the exception and the error code. Read more »

  • Laravel Learnings: Week 7

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    You might have noticed that my posts in this series are getting shorter. I’m trying to provide as much resources as possible in a small blog post for you to check real quick and not too much extra info. I feel this gives you a better way to check quickly what has happened in the last week and while not having to read too much. Read more »

  • Laravel learnings: week 6

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    Small update this week. I also decided to change the name from my posts to just “Laravel” so I can post about Laravel in general and not just about Laravel 4 specifically. Read more »

  • Laravel 4 learnings: week 5

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    Wooha, has it already been 5 weeks since I started these blog posts? Time flies. I want to thank all of you for the wonderful responses I’ve been getting about these posts. Again, if you’d like to see your blog posts, packages or anything else for Laravel 4 in these posts, mail or mention me the links and I’ll have them up next week! Read more »

  • How to contribute to Laravel 4

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    A lot of people are submitting issues these days to the Laravel 4 Framework repository. Sometimes there’s a pull request with code attached to fix a certain bug or to improve the framework by adding new functionality. I’ll go over each step to submit a successful issue or pull request to the Laravel 4 repo and help you contribute to the framework. Read more »

  • Laravel 4 learnings: week 4

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    I didn’t had much time this week so no tips and tricks just the usual list of resources and things that happened this week. Read more »

  • Using Laravel 4′s Model Events

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    Laravel 4 beta 4 is hot of the press and it added a lot of new functionality to the framework. One of them are the newly added Model events. You probably already knew about events in Laravel. Model events are basically the same but for Eloquent model event listeners. They get triggered on specific Model actions like saving a Model’s data to the database or attempting to delete a model from the database. In this post I’m going to give you a couple of use-cases for them so you get a better understanding why they would be useful in your projects. Read more »

  • Laravel 4 learnings: week 3

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    It’s been a great week for Laravel 4 with beta 4 hot off the press and lots of new functionality added to the framework. I’ll go over some of the new functionality as well as the weekly list of tips, tweets and resources that were posted. Read more »

  • Laravel 4 learnings: week 2

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    It’s been another great week for Laravel 4. Lots of new additions and I’ve got a neat list of tips, tricks and resources for you. Read more »

  • Laravel 4 learnings: week 1

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    So I decided to keep a record of everything I’m learning from Laravel 4 and post it as a blog post at the end of each week. I’m hoping that this will be helpful to others who are also testing Laravel 4. I’ll try to post each week and with as much tips as possible.

    Let’s get started.
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