Ubiquiti EdgeOS - IP-restricted NAT forwarding

Recently changing ISP, I found myself having to configure NAT rules in my router, but wanted to restrict access from specific hosts.

Opinionated development practices (or when to do what)

The question always comes up "can I do x in y?" and you will often have someone telling you about purity or the "right way" - but what is the "right way?"

Working with nullable field in Eloquent models - Part Deux

Today I take a look at a more extensible and easily reusable version of the nullable fields trait from my previous blog post.

Working with nullable fields in Eloquent models

Nullable model attributes still need to have their value explicitly set to null in order to be persisted as null. If you have a few nullable fields across a multiple models, the duplication o

An Envoyer-like deployment script using Envoy

As the release of Envoyer.io was announced last week, I finally spent a bit of time looking into making use of Laravel's Envoy.

serve.sh in Homestead fails to restart nginx

A slight change was made to the serve.sh command in February 2015 that caused serve function to incorrectly set the listen port in the nginx config. Here's a brief discussion of the problem a

Eloquent ORM, route model binding, and repositories

As you progress as a developer, you learn more and more ways to achieve a given outcome. The more knowledge you have, however, the more difficult it can be to determine when to use any given

Filtering models with Eloquent in Laravel

The Eloquent ORM that ships with Laravel is a very powerful tool; it simplifies many tasks - from relationships between models to eager loading. In this post, I talk about query scopes and ho

Simple environment switching in Laravel 5

When Laravel 5 was released, the app configuration structure was changed so that the environment-specific configuration files were dropped. Some people desire the ability to 'switch' between