Software Testing is a complex and deep argument, so this short story is for educational purposes because I think is very important, for our project maintenance and scalability, to test every aspect of our Software Business Logic. I will show you a “stupid” but simple example of a Feature Test…

Laravel provides an expressive, unified API for various cache backends, allowing you to take advantage of their blazing-fast data retrieval and speed up your web application. Using Laravel Cache is very simple and useful and it easily can be configured on File System, Redis, Memcached, or other drivers. Why use…

If you are working on a Website or on Software, maybe you could need to generate PDF documents. In this quick tutorial, I will show you a simple way to create awesome PDF files with Laravel and DOMpdf. The first step is to install this package: composer require barryvdh/laravel-dompdf Then…

Observer classes have method names that reflect the Eloquent events you wish to listen for. Each of these methods receives the affected model as their only argument so you can add any logic to every event of your Model. How to Create an Observe Class? php artisan make:observer UserObserver --model=User This artisan command will generate a file into app/Observers path with default methods that reflects functions of the model class.

In this article, I would like to explain how to generate a Swagger file into a Laravel project. Swagger allows you to describe the structure of your APIs via Open API Specification and supplies one interactive UI API documentation. The first step is the installation of L5 Swagger Extention via…

Last year I discovered Gitpod (https://gitpod.io) and since that day I have loved it! Gitpod is a SaaS for remote development. You can use it locally into your favourite IDE or, as Github Codespace, into your browser using a web version of vscode. Gitpod is free for public and private…

If you are a Company and you have to choose a provider for your mailboxes, probably you will choose Google Workspace or Microsoft Office 365. Both services are great but maybe you can evaluate also some less popular alternatives such as Fastmail, Privatemail, and Qboxmail. Fastmail is an Australian provider that offers different Mail plans with a focus on User Privacy. More information at: https://www.fastmail.com/.

Maybe you would like to encrypt some of your documents to avoid the content of them could be shared with unwanted users. In this story, I will show you a simple solution based on PHP 5/7/8 that lets you encrypt and decrypt strings, protect them with a password and securely…

Do you have a website? In this story, I will give some basic security tips! STOP USING WORDPRESS (OR MAINTAIN IT) Wordpress is the most hackable CMS in the world. So don’t use it and don’t use similar Open Source projects (such as Joomla). If you use it… remember that it…