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• Laravel: Custom error messages in form requests

  2019-05-24

  Note to self: this is why you should, and how you can customise form validation error messages in Laravel - even when using form requests

• Laravel: Going back() after form validation errors

  2019-05-17

  I’m SURE I must have done this before. Like…so many times. But this felt new today and is definitely worth remembering. When you’re using forms in Laravel, you sometimes want a “cancel” or “back” button or link that takes you to where you were before. And Laravel provides a handy url() helper that gets a […]

• Laravel: Being explicit in authorization policies

  2019-05-09

  How to specify a specific policy/class when authorizing using the controller helper function in Laravel.

• Speaker Tips from the wonderful WordCamp London folks

  2019-04-04

  I’m speaking at WordCamp London on Sunday. And I ALWAYS learn something new when public speaking. I’ve been chatting with other speakers in the Speaker’s Slack Channel and I popped in and asked for tips: Who has super speaker tips? Assume nothing. I want all the basics. I gave a couple of my own for […]

• My Government Petition Tracker: Some stats and facts

  2019-03-22

  A quick write-up of how I built the government petition tracker that I made and how it's performed over the last 24 hours of being quite a lot busier than normal.

• All the Brexit/Revoke Article 50 government petition resources

  2019-03-22

  Your definitive list of "Revoke Article 50" government petition resources.

• A new look: What? Why? and How?

  2019-03-05

  Years in the thinking, not very long in the making, here's the What?, Why? and How? of my extra-geeky, new look website.

• Going Vanilla – initial thoughts on building a theme with no build tools

  2019-02-11

  I'm attempting to build a WordPress theme with no build tool using only "vanilla" CSS and JS. Here's some initial thoughts I've had after getting started.