If you're looking for an intro to Eloquent, you won't find it here. Instead, I'll try to illustrate some real problems I've run into regarding Eloquent, and databases in general.
You'll find these things in the Eloquent documentation, but you have to look for them, otherwise they're easy to miss. Especially when you're starting and everything is easy and just works. It's power is limitle...
In here, I'll write some guidelines to follow when I'm coding. Word of advice: there will be some pretty opionated ideas, which you may not like. And it's ok, the good thing about coding is that every one of us do it differently and has a different carrier path we're trying to walk.
Many will argue that Vi/Vim is an extremely old editor with no benefits to development whatsoever. I won’t get into that, the web is full of articles and/or rants in favor/against vi.
My personal take on the matter is that I HAD to learn about it (because you can’t really learn everything) so I can decide if it’s usefull or not. And it took me 4 tries. The learning curve is extreme, I c...
So … you’ve had it with those (S)FTP servers ? Or you join a team that need some sort of tool to avoid constant overwrite of one’s work ? Or maybe you took a break from coding and you need a quick refresh on Git ? If there’s an ‘Yes’ somewhere there, I suggest you try this series.
It will go through the basics of using Git and move on to some of the tools that extend git (like git-flow)...