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Published 2 years ago

How To Allow The Use Of Tabs In A Textarea

I have an enlarged textarea box in the backend of my blog where I type my content as markdown and it has always been a pain whenever I need to indent some of the content. By default, the browser hops onto a new field whenever I hit the tab key. Up until now the only way I could indent te...

Published 3 years ago

How To Successfully Upgrade Laravel Applications To The Latest Version

One of the painful but most often useful things you have to do as a software developer or team is upgrading your software to the latest version of a framework it relies on. Most often you can delay the need to upgrade if you are running on a ...

Published 4 years ago

Trimming The Fat Off Bootstrap 4

Bootstrap is a very useful CSS framework in the sense that it makes designing a website easy by providing a lot out of the box. It provides a lot from typography to Modal. Applying a style to your HTML is simply done by adding a bootstrap class to the element in question. ...

Published 4 years ago

Laravel File Driven Cache On Steroids

As of Laravel 7, there are 6 available cache drivers, with APC giving the best results and the file driver being the only one that requires no extra setup. I was speaking to a friend last night, who mentioned they used Redis as their cache driver. At this point, I have a project th...

Published 4 years ago

Be Careful With HTML ID Attributes

HTML is made up of elements which help define the structure of a web page, Elements of the same type possess the same behavior across a web page. One way to make an element behave differently is by adding properties to them. One of the ways to add a property to an HTML element is using t...

Published 5 years ago

Setting Up HTTPS Redirects On Heroku Laravel Instance

I am going to keep this post really short. I worked on cleaning up parts of my personal site and one thing I really wanted to solve was to force all requests to be served via HTTPS. I tried a couple of options, like forcing the redirect using , this led to multiple redirec...