Matt Komarnicki

Helper functions are simply custom PHP functions that you define in a certain place and then call from anywhere across a Laravel project. If…

It may happen that a typical process of downloading an application from App Store will be interrupted by an unexpected event, like a broken…

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 ne…

Laravel 5 comes with already built-in features like Authentication and Registration. However, sometimes you may want to change default funct…

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 termin…

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 insta…

By default, language of the login screen will match the language that has been selected during the OS X installation. However, nothing stops…

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…

Sometimes you will have a need to check which exact version of currently installed package you have. In various distributions of Linux you c…

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 wit…

Typical process of creating a bootable USB using previously downloaded ISO image file is pretty easy but with Debian it can become a bit tri…

You can easily synchronize time of your Linux servers or desktop machines by using ntpdate command.