Michael Brooks

Michael Brooks: a website developer and creator.

  • Quick Update

    Lots have been going on recently, so I do apologise for not writing a post as of late. I had to be made redundant by my previous employee due to lack of funds and not being able to push enough work my way. Luckily, the guys there are pretty cool and was happy to be my reference for any future employment. I was really lucky to find a new workplace and as soon as I left, I started my new position with Pulse8 Broadband.

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  • Unique slug Laravel unique validation

    Just recently at work, I had to change the way my news articles worked. We have a client who has Holiday Homes, and they have news articles per park. When I redeveloped the website in Laravel, I created a one to many relationships based on one park has many news articles.

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  • Website Update

    As you can see, it has been a while since my last post, but I have been busy trying to push updates over to my website to help strengthen the relationships between you and me.

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  • UTF-8 causing problems for Social and Email Websites Laravel

    I’ve been developing a couple of projects which use UTF-8 encoding on my databases, but have found that this has been problematic recently. Mobile phones and tablets now use emoticons which can cause problems for us, UTF-8 users.8

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  • Laravel 4: How To Use Jquery UI Sortable

    I needed a way to change the sort order of my data inside of an admin interface which I have created. After a little

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  • Laravel AJAX Tutorial Using HTML5’s FormData

    For this tutorial, I will show you guys how I managed to create an image uploader for your profile image. This is very similar to how Facebook’s/Twitter’s functionality.

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  • Laravel user Registration and Login

    This will be a fairly simple tutorial as I’m not re-creating the wheel here. I started by developing a login/registration system by myself until I start talking to people in Laravel’s IRC. There is a package which did everything I needed it to do which was as follows…

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  • Thoughts on my social networking site and what has changed

    I’ve had a lot to think about when it comes to the where I want to take my website. Firstly, do I really want to take on such a big task of trying to beat Facebook on my own, when they have a huge team? The answer to that is no, no I don’t. I have always had some great ideas with what I wanted to do, but the fact is, I couldn’t carry this out on my own.

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  • Virgin Media Calling and Asking for Password

    Last week sometime, I received a phone call from Virgin Media. The caller said he would like to talk to me regarding my account, which at first seemed fairly legit. I asked him what the problem was and to his response, I was shocked.

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  • Nice little Laravel tip (Blade Ternary Operator)

    Just today, I was looking at using a ternary operator in Laravel’s Blade templating system and thought to myself… There must be a better way of doing this. After a quick Google aanndd… BEHOLD THE OR STATEMENT! Since version 4.1 they managed to sneak in this or statement and it’s managed to bypass so many people (I figured this out by the lack of voices shouting about this on Google).

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