April 20, 2020 — If you’re a 90’s like me, you most certainly be the fan of all the cartoons from Cartoon Network, Disney and the other similar franchises. That was an era of classic cartoons such as Tom & Jerry, Popeye the Sailor, The Flinstones, Disney’s Mickey Mouse and lots others.

April 17, 2020 — I recently stumbled upon this ghost feature of PHP using which you can actually use streams in order to post data using a HTTP POST request.

April 15, 2020 — Sometimes all you need is to define and call function at the same time and only once throughout the scope. Such functions are called as Immediately Invoke Function Expression (IIFE) also known as Self-Executing Anonymous Function.

April 14, 2020 — The new Blade components in Laravel 7 are great. They provide an easy way of defining blade components in a Vue-like tag aliases. One of the nice features of Blade components are slots.

April 10, 2020 — Another year. Another run down of all the (Dark) themes for VS Code that I’m using in 2020. This time around, I’ve experimented with themes which are quite unusual but have vibrant aesthetics. I’m listing down all the themes down below for you to check out. Sit back and enjoy!

April 8, 2020 — I was working on polishing my Notepad app this fine quarantine afternoon. One feature that I was planning to add was an ability to download the content of the notes/text as a text file when user click the specified download button.

April 7, 2020 — Blade component tags are a useful additions to the latest version of Laravel i.e. version 7. In Laravel 7, Blade components have been overhauled to allow tag based rendering, attribute management, component classes, inline view components, and more.

April 2, 2020 — Often times, there comes a sceanrio where you’d want to alter the column through which you’ve setup your query to be sorted from. So, for instance, you’ve the following query.

April 1, 2020 — Exceptions are really useful when you want to handle some situations which can not be handled gracefully otherwise. So, using exceptions, you can handle certain sceanrios by showing a nice error message. Take the following example for instance.

March 30, 2020 — When PHP 7.4 released, it came with a whole lot of features/improvements that makes the language more interesting to work with. The one such feature that I want to talk about is arrow functions. For a primer, arrow functions are not new. In fact, If you’ve been working with the latest JavaScript (EcmaScript 6), you might’ve worked with arrow functions already.