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Pondering About My Main Backend Techstack of Choice

Tyler Souza — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 00:58:11 +0000

For about eight months or so, I decided to commit myself and focus on Node.js as my main backend techstack of choice. PHP/Laravel have treated me well and I’ve been loving Go, but I...

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The Ternary Operator in PHP

Tyler Souza — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:12:41 +0000

If you have a small if/else statement, it could possibly be turned into a ternary operator. What is a ternary operator The ternary operator is a comparison operator and can be looked at as...

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Some Notes on ES6 (JavaScript)

Tyler Souza — Sat, 25 Mar 2017 20:55:19 +0000

I’ve been taking a stab at ES6/ES2015 and Webpack for the past couple of days. So far I love it! I haven’t been the hugest fan of Javascript, however, I took the dive and...

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Sending Email in Laravel with Mailables

Tyler Souza — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 01:14:56 +0000

I recently found out about a feature in Laravel 5.3 as I was working with email. That was when I discovered Laravel Mailables. This is a great, clean way to send email; especially if...

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Autoloading PHP Files with Composer (psr-4)

Tyler Souza — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 01:39:17 +0000

If you’re not sure what composer is, it’s a dependency manager for PHP. It’s very similar to NPM. Composer is a nice way to install PHP packages, manage dependencies, use it as an autoloader,...

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Exploring Caching in Web Applications

Tyler Souza — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 02:17:04 +0000

I’ve been exploring the topic of caching in web applications lately. To be more specific, I’ve been interested on how data gets cached for better performance; especially when you’re performing really expensive queries. Maybe...

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Laravel Collections: The map() Method

Tyler Souza — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 02:43:22 +0000

In the last blog post, I talked about collections in Laravel. I decided to make a video this time, taking about the map() method and what it does. The video explains the map() method...

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Laravel Collections Make PHP Development Awesome

Tyler Souza — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 02:18:45 +0000

Laravel provides a lot of amazing tools out-of-the-box and collections are one of them. The collection class within Illuminate\Support is basically a wrapper that allows you to work with and manipulate arrays of data....

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Daily Front-End #2.0: App UI

Tyler Souza — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 18:56:57 +0000

This is Codepen I created that was inspired by this Dribbble shot. Didn’t have time to code up the whole design since I’m trying to pump these out daily for practice. However, this is...

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Daily Front-End #1.0: Login Page

Tyler Souza — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 23:05:20 +0000

Introduction Hello there! I’ve been wanting to do a daily thing where I code up some UI components just for practice. Maybe I’ll search around Dribbble and see if I build a design using...

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