Andy Huggins

Mostly code, or something cool

Laravel Debug Tip - The beauty of dd()

One of the things I enjoy about using Laravel, is the simple little helpful features that just make sense. I find myself reaching for the debug functions when I am in JS or other languages. Read about the beauty of dd().

Posted by Andy Huggins on April 16, 2016

Self Publishing Books

I haven't done it myself yet, but don't want to forget these two resources that help with publishing.

Posted by Andy Huggins on March 23, 2016

Presentation - You Should Use Composer

I gave a brief introduction to using Composer at my local PHP Users Group tonight, I am posting a link to my slides, but plan to add a recorded version of the presentation next week.

Posted by Andy Huggins on March 18, 2016

Speed up Composer install

Every PHP Developer should be using Composer, and it is absolutely great...however, it's a little slow at times. Here's a way to speed it up and it's super easy to install and use.

Posted by Andy Huggins on February 28, 2016

Working with Google Apis

While this could be a long article about the many many pain points working with Google's APIs, for now I am wanting to share a link that makes it easy to "reset" things when you are testing your implementation.

Posted by Andy Huggins on February 15, 2016

Composer Require tip

I learned something new about composer require, thought I would share.

Posted by Andy Huggins on January 29, 2016

PHP Traits are looking pretty good to me

I have recently found that PHP Traits are becoming a "go to" solution for a lot of problems on recent projects. Found an article that I think helps make that point clear.

Posted by Andy Huggins on January 28, 2016

Do you define your success?

Read an interesting article by DHH about working, essentially. Kind of falls in line with a theme with me lately and it gave me some thoughts about what is and isn't success.

Posted by Andy Huggins on January 28, 2016

Company Structure Part 2

A lot of posts coming out of my head tonight...don't want to forget the point I started in the previous post about Company Structure.

Posted by Andy Huggins on January 28, 2016

Jeffrey Way on Hangout with San Diego Laravel group.

Jeffrey Way had a good talk with the San Diego Laravel group, and there were a few big points that I thought were worth noting.

Posted by Andy Huggins on January 28, 2016