Hi! I'm Liam Norman, I build great products at Reassured.co.uk, Past organizer of PHP Cape Town UG, runner and lover of all things caffeine and code.
Laravel 7 was recently released on 3rd March 2020. It is an exciting release with a few noted new features aimed at improving the performance of the Laravel framework as well as the Developer Experience. One of these features that…
What is Programming By Wishful Thinking? A great way to implement your programs when using Test Driven Development is using a top-down approach. Top-down programming is a programming style whereby the large concepts of a program are implemented and then…
What is a Make Day? Make Day Juliett was one of many "Make" days that OfferZen is offering to local developers around South Africa. OfferZen is hosting 20 developers per Make day to join in a full day…
Defining Model Factories and Model Factory States Laravel 5.1 came with Model Factories which allow you to generate models with "fake" data using the Faker library. This quickly became a powerful and essential feature which greatly assists…
I like many developers love test driven development so in this short tutorial, I'll show you how to use an awesome package to spice up your PHPUnit test results by adding Nyancats to the printer results. Requirements Please make sure…