Andy Huggins

Mostly code, or something cool

Laravel Testing - Testing Middleware

I made a silly mistake by using the ->make() instead of the create() in my test. Did a lot of digging and ultimately realized my error, but it could be useful to others.

Posted by Andy Huggins on June 07, 2018

Would making 'Artisan make:?' auto open the file in an editor be useful?

Re-watched a talk and noticed that the speaker always had to switch to editor and open file after generating a class...couldn't this be automated? Would this be a good idea? Should I do something more with this?

Posted by Andy Huggins on April 13, 2018

SocialiateProviders and spoofed_client_id

I discuss a situation that required me to dig through some code to troubleshoot a Socialite oAuth connection that seemed to never work.

Posted by Andy Huggins on March 23, 2018

Mysql indexes can dramatically improve performance in your app

I'm not sure I really understood just how much indexes can improve performance for things in your app. After some recent modifications to an app, and then some necessary optimizations...I am now a believer.

Posted by Andy Huggins on November 01, 2017

Working with Laravel Queues

Lessons I learned when using queues for the first time on a recent Laravel project.

Posted by Andy Huggins on October 28, 2017

A Package for adding a Helpers.php file to your Laravel Application

I created a package to easily add a helpers.php file where you can store some global functions, now that is just a composer require away.

Posted by Andy Huggins on August 25, 2017

Composer Package Development and easy local development

Use the "path repositories" feature of Composer to make local package development much easier and faster.

Posted by Andy Huggins on May 31, 2017

Future Reference - Silly CLI

A nice little package to make CLI apps. It's basically a wrapper around Symfony/Console, but still makes things nice and easy to work with.

Posted by Andy Huggins on April 13, 2017

Eloquent ORM Chunk method and very weird results

I ran into an issue with Eloquent ORM's `chunk` method, and it presented an interesting debugging issue, that is a lesson in itself.

Posted by Andy Huggins on February 28, 2017

Deploying Laravel with Elastic Beanstalk - .env

There are a few steps involved in deploying an app with Elastic Beanstalk, in this article I talk about how to handle the .env variables.

Posted by Andy Huggins on January 11, 2017