Installing Laravel 5.1 at Digital Ocean with PHP 7 PHP 7 is here!!! …well, almost. As of the writing of this post, we’ve reached the 7th Release Candidate (!) phase, so it shouldn’t be too much longer until a stable release is made official. With reports of between 25% and 70% speed improvements, all of us PHP devs should be very excited about this. […]
Should You Use EAV? The Entity-Attribute-Value (EAV) pattern can be used to flexibly add or remove properties to an object and its corresponding data model. There is some debate about if and when it is appropriate to use EAV. I’ll provide my opinions here, and also a tutorial on how to implement EAV into a Laravel 5.1 application using Cartalyst’s […]
Do They Still Want To Do Math? A debate, heated in the way only interwebs debates can be, has been raging for the past few days about a math problem. In a nutshell, here’s what happened. The math problem was this: 5 x 3 = _____ The instructions said “use the repeated addition strategy.” The child answered “15” and showed the work […]
