Quick background Small businesses like us face the following problems: Our data is fragmented across various tools. There’s no connection between them. Finances are managed at one platform while hiring at completely different. Difficult tracking organizational activities. Small updates in emails and Chat/Slack are getting harder to track as data…

Ever since I’ve been working on the Employee Portal, I haven’t felt more amazed about Laravel. There are various things Laravel provides out of the box. Many popular third-party integrations are built-in and don’t require anything extra than setting proper configs. However, the best thing about Laravel is its documentation. The…

A community grows through the people who are passionate about the subject wanting to share their knowledge. And when there are new generations of people to follow this lead with their contribution. Example, Stack Overflow or TED is an ongoing phenomena because of its strong community of contributors. Growth of…

Laravel has a beautiful support to include packages. This allows us to extend the functionalities of the framework to the project needs. With this we can easily have support of packages generic for PHP or specific to Laravel. One such PHP package that comes out of box with Laravel is…

ColoredCow started the CodeTrek programs to help others understand our passion for software development. With this program we wanted to share it and empower like minded people to do the same. We wanted to share our willingness to walk the extra mile for building software the right way. Currently CodeTrek…

I didn’t go directly into making web applications in Laravel. And I don’t think anybody can without having some prerequisite knowledge about some concepts and tools. This blog is basically about the things I knew or had to know before I could say I was eligible to get onboard into…

I am a huge fan of the Homestead development environment. Among all the other benefits that it offers the robust set of pre-installed packages makes working with it a huge delight. Also the peace of mind that comes with it being a complete separate installation not affecting resources on other…

Laravel has over the years built a reputation for making developers productive. Built with Convention over Configuration, it enables developers to focus more on the application logic over all the other routine work that goes into building an app. Am I the only one that kinda wants this short-cut to…

I have been working on a Laravel based healthcare project. This project covers couple of states in US and handles a huge number of patient. It also has a huge network of practices (clinics). We recently got a request to add a feature that would suggest patients that are near…

Frameworks are a boon to the modern web development. A framework provides easy to follow guidelines that can be utilised to remove a lot of complication.   However, we all must understand the difference between using and following a framework. I remember when I started with Laravel. Given my heavy…