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Laravel Validation with Custom Attribute Names

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For the most part, I don’t have many complaints when it comes to Laravel. That being said, every now and then I find myself trying to accomplish something I’d consider to be relatively simple only to keep hitting brick walls. As handy as it is for the Laravel Validator to automatically generate friendly error...

Ionic & The Android Back Button

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What's the problem? Generally speaking, Ionic does a good job of handing navigation. Sadly, one of the things it doesn't do well (in my opinion) is it's handling of the hardware back button on Android. Sure, we can push a handful of views onto the screen and it will casually pop them off again every time the user...

Simple reCAPTCHA with Laravel

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Introduction We've all seen reCAPTCHA at one point or another - that previously hateful box on every contact form or registration page that you'd take half a dozen stabs at before finally getting it right. Thankfully it's been replaced lately with a much more intelligent implementation that doesn't usually require...

Kubernetes: Lessons Learned

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Why We Started Using Kubernetes Our journey really started about 4 years ago, shortly before Kubernetes was officially released (in July 2015). Truthfully, at that time we didn't even know it existed. As a company we'd been working on more and more complicated web applications most of which couldn't simply be...

Ionic Framework 4: What's new?

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Rob our Head of Development has been talking all things Ionic 4 with Gareth Stirling from Web Talks NI. Have a listen to this episode of the weekly podcast to find out a bit about Scaffold in the early days, Rob's career path so far and how we use Ionic to develop commercial mobile apps.  You can also...