Michael Brooks

Michael Brooks

Oct
10

Zero Downtime Laravel Deployments with "Laravel Deployer" and "Github Actions"

Github actions can automate your entire workflow. From building your assets to running your testing and deployment strategies. Github Actions
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Oct
10

Easy PHP (Laravel, Symfony) Development with Docker using DDEV

DDEV is an open source tool that makes it simple to get local PHP development environments up and running in
2 min read
Oct
10

Connect Ghost to your managed DigitalOcean MySQL Database (DBaaS)

Digital Ocean provide a nice way to create and connect to managad databases including MySQL, Redis and PostgreSQL. However, it
2 min read
Oct
10

Automatically post new blog posts to your Facebook and Twitter pages from your RSS feed

You now have an RSS feed setup and you want to post your content to Facebook and Twitter automatically, but
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Oct
10

Choosing the right commenting system for your blog

Here’s a list of commenting plugins you can use in any static or dynamic website/blog you may have.
2 min read
Oct
10
Fitness for Mental Health a CrossFit event to help raise money for mental health

Fitness for Mental Health a CrossFit event to help raise money for mental health

The information below was taken from my Just Giving page. If you would like to donate then please head over
2 min read
Oct
10

Ghost version 3.0 will help shape the future of this blog

Ghost (the platform we use to create our posts) has created version 3.0. And with it, they have unleashed
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Oct
10

Installing VirtualBox, Vagrant and Laravel Homestead

Contents * * * * * * Installing VirtualBox VirtualBox helps us create and manage virtual machines which allows us to create development environments for PHP.
3 min read
Oct
10

Laravel From Zero to Hero 00: An Introduction to Laravel

Contents * * * * * * * * * What is Laravel? Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation
6 min read
Oct
10
Welcome to my new blog

Welcome to my new blog

Hello and welcome to my new blog site. Where I will be posting about web development news and tutorials, as
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