Back in 2011, I was getting frustrated with my aging development machine. It could barely keep up with me, though I resisted getting a new machine because it can be so frustratingly time-consuming to set up a new machine. As I pondered what to do a thought struck me, “you are a WEB developer Ben….

Congratulations on successfully launching your WooCommerce store! It is time to start thinking about what it takes to keep a WooCommerce store healthy and continually drawing customers in. Here, at Mindsize, we are often called in to support new and existing stores, and to help them grow and scale as customer traffic increases. I wanted

Out of the box, Laravel will allow both HTTPS and HTTP requests to your website or application. Ideally all requests are served via SSL. There are several ways to accomplish this, some of which require access to server configs. I am going to show you how you can easily force SSL in your Laravel application

With several fantastic extension out there, integrating a Mailchimp email subscription form in Laravel has never been easier! I am going to show you an example integration that collects an email address in a simple form. We will be using the laravel-newsletter package by spatie. Assumptions You have a Laravel application already running You have a

We previously wrote about how to deploy to Shopify with Codeship. Codeship is a great tool, however, if you are looking for a powerful build and deploy a solution that also has a simple interface then pay attention. In this article, I will show you how you can easily set up Buddy to watch a Git repository and deploy changes