Author: MrFrag

Laravel comes with a great validation system, but sometimes it’s not enough and you need to write your own custom validator.

After some googling, coding, and a big headache, here’s how to do it. Continue reading Create a custom validator in 4 steps

Recently I had to install Composer on my Windows 10 system, it’s quite easy but you need to satisfy some dependencies first, so, I wrote this little howto, I hope it will help. Continue reading Howto: Install Php and Composer on Windows

Vagrant is your next work companion: it will create a virtual development environment ready to run on every machine, you no longer need to install a web server, a database or any other package on every single machine, just set it up once and share the same environment with your team. Continue reading Easy virtual development envinronments with Vagrant

A common task you may encounter while developing a web interface is creating an element that perfectly fit the browser’s space. usually you can do it with some percentages or via javascript, but CSS3 offers a better solution. Continue reading Easy css sizing with vw and vh

A guy was looking form some vontage computer parts on eBay when he found a company selling some brand new IBM computers left in their storage since the 90’s. The computers were NEW, still in their original boxes, together with their original mouse, keyboards and user manuals. Continue reading Unboxing a brand new IBM 286

Here’s a quick tutorial about solving this common issue:

1. On your project root, open your .env file
2. Look for the APP_KEY setting: it must be a string with 16, 24 or 32 random characters. Just write a string of your choice or, even better, get the md5 hash of something: md5 hashes are 32 characters long.
3. Save and have fun with Laravel!

Suppose that your Postgres db has a big, big table split into many smaller partitions, how can you delete some of them in single query? Continue reading Howto: drop Postgres tables matching a pattern

This post is just a little remainder for me and any other Laravel newbie.

If you see a “Whoops, looks like something went wrong” message here is how to solve it. Continue reading Whoops, looks like something went wrong

Here is a tutorial abouts using Adsense on a single page application made with Angular js.
Continue reading Howto: monetize your Angular JS project with Google Adsense