PHP: Optimised File Response in Laravel Using HTTP Cache Headers In most common situations you are going to let your web server handle all HTTP responses for you. Imagine a case where a client is requesting a file by accessing an unique URL → se… May 28, 2015
Laravel: How to Truncate a Table With a Foreign Key Reference While Seeding? If you work with migrations in your Laravel application, sooner or later you may see an error that will forbid you to truncate a table that is referenced in a foreign key constrain… May 13, 2015
Custom Helpers in Laravel Helper functions are simply custom PHP functions that you define in a certain place and then call from anywhere across a Laravel project. If you have to change anything, you do it… May 06, 2015
How to Fix Corrupt App Store Download Cache? It may happen that a typical process of downloading an application from App Store will be interrupted by an unexpected event, like a broken internet connection at least. If this is… April 25, 2015
ReflectionException in Laravel 5 When Seeding Database (Class Does Not Exist) It took me a while to realize what is going on with this strange issue. You did a migration that worked fine? Then you wanted to populate newly created table by seeding your databa… March 17, 2015
Overriding Login and Registration Functionality in Laravel 5 Laravel 5 comes with already built-in features like Authentication and Registration. However, sometimes you may want to change default functionality or behavior of existing compone… February 21, 2015
How to Disable Dashboard in OS X Mavericks? I have no idea who finds OS X Dashboard as an useful tool. There is a easy way to permanently turn in off by typing just few lines in terminal. Follow this article to get rid of th… November 08, 2014
Creating Bootable USB Flash Drive with OS X Mavericks Turning your external drive to a bootable startup disk from which you can install your OS X is a great way to avoid downloading a huge installer file on each Mac you want the syste… October 19, 2014
How to Change Language of the Login Screen in OS X Mavericks? By default, language of the login screen will match the language that has been selected during the OS X installation. However, nothing stops you from changing it to any other langu… October 11, 2014
Wget Equivalent in OS X The wget command is a very handy Linux tool. Unfortunately by default OS X does not offer it, but there is a decent workaround. Let me show you how to use cURL to achieve exactly t… October 06, 2014
Linux: How to Check Version of a Package Installed in Ubuntu? Sometimes you will have a need to check which exact version of currently installed package you have. In various distributions of Linux you can achieve this in the same way. Ubuntu… March 01, 2014
How to Install Restricted Extras in Ubuntu? Due to Ubuntu’s policy about non-free formats, by default this OS comes with no support to media like MP3 (which can be required to deal with FFmpeg) and DVD, Flash Player or Java… February 27, 2014