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  • Movies in September

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    Continuing my monthly movie summary, here's a run-down of some of the movies I watched in September 2021. I watched 31 movies this month, taking the total for the year to 290. Cali…

  • Laravel authorisation with policies and requests

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    Laravel comes with a few tools which help you manage authorisation and restrict how different users interact with your application. The Laravel documentation for Authorisation covers how you handle most of this. First you would create a policy for yo…

  • Movies in August

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    Continuing my monthly movie summary, here's a run-down of some of the movies I watched in August 2021. I watched 34 movies this month, taking the total for the year to 259. Dangal…

  • My code quality setup

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    When building a codebase, either on your own or within a team, its a good idea to keep code consistant. One of the main tools to help keep code consistant is to decide on and employ coding standards. Yes, that means tabs vs spaces, but it also means…

  • Movies in July

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    After my review of the last six months of movies, it made more sense to make it a monthly thing. I watched 33 movies this month, taking the total for the year to 225. Every single movie is a "first time watch". Below is a summary of my favo…

  • Laravel global scope ambiguous issue

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    I came across a small edge-case when using Laravel's Global Scopes after following the example in the documentation. I created an "Active" scope, which can be applied to multiple models. <?php namespace App; use Illuminate\Database\Elo…

  • PHPStan, Encrypter and Laravel Packages

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    I've just come across a rather annoying problem that is down to a relatively specific set of circumstances. I use the static anaylsis tool PHPStan to check my PHP code. I use the Laravel specific wrapper, developed by nunomaduro, called Larastan whic…

  • Laravel global scopes and Nova

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    I have recently been building a new application using Laravel and Nova. For the front-end of the application, I would only like to restrict models to those that are "active". To achieve this, I used the global scope behaviour which makes su…

  • Six months of movies

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    Over the first six months of 2021 I have watched 192 movies, none of which I have seen before. Below is a summary of some of my favourites. January It took me far too long to watch the classic movie The Blues Brothers, even more shockingly consideri…

  • A New Iteration

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    So, I’ve finally updated my website. It’s been a long time since the last major change, but it wasn’t without trying. It’s not a radical change, the core content is still the same but the underlying technology has been updated to help me continue to…

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