I’ve been following this article today on how to get Laravel setup in the context of a WordPress plugin. The WordPress plugin is a REST cache which is based on software I’ve already written the core of, I wanted to…
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Yesterday marked my last day with Code Cabin after nearly four years as the Lead Developer on their flagship software suite, WP Google Maps. I’ll be writing a short blog post about the plugin, specifically what work I’ve done with…
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I’ve submitted my new DOMDocument library to Packagist, so it’s now available for installation via Composer. I’ll be setting that aside for the time being. My next focus will be on learning Laravel. I’ve had a little commercial experience with…
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I’ve previously written an extension of PHP’s DOMDocument library, which I’ve used for many, many different projects. I’ve been looking at Symfony and Laravel recently and it appears that whilst they do offer a DOMCrawler for working with DOM, both…
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As part of my drive to move into general frameworks and out of WordPress development, I’ve been looking to transition into Laravel by integrating Laravel into a WordPress plugin. There is an interesting article on this as well as an…
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This week has presented some interesting challenges outside of my usual work. I’ve been working with Linux (Ubuntu 20.04) this week a lot as I work on a small Magento 2 project. Windows, my usual operating system, is not officially…
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I’ve used many, many build pipelines and pre-processors before but for this particular project, I was looking for something simple so I’ve been brushing up on Gulp over the weekend. I’m also dipping into SASS for the first time which…
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I’ve been recently doing some work with the Lumen framework, which is effectively a slimline version of the Laravel framework. At the time of writing, I’m not overly familiar with Laravel, but I’m working on a project which requires a…
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