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Building a Device-Agnostic Web Development Setup 2025 Edition: My Journey with an iPad

Building a Device-Agnostic Web Development Setup 2025 Edition: My Journey with an iPad

Over the past decade, I’ve written about my unconventional journey as a developer using an iPad for web development. To me, being device-agnostic is the ul

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Highly Performant PHP Sessions with Redis

The web is stateless, but often the apps we build are not. To facilitate state in web apps, PHP provides a session handling mechanism. Sessions are off by

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How to Detect Mobile Devices Accessing a Shopify Store

How to Detect Mobile Devices Accessing a Shopify Store

how you how to detect mobile devices accessing a Shopify store. Shopify is a great platform for many ecommerce stores. Developing themes is simple wit

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Using An iPad For Web Development

Using An iPad For Web Development

My obsession with using an iPad for web development started all the way back with the first generation iPad. Tools then were sparse, but I made it work by

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Quick tip to access protected properties in PHP object

Quick tip to access protected properties in PHP object

Calling an object that has a protected property that you need access to? This function will allow you to quickly access data stored in protected properties

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How to use custom pivot tables in Laravel 6.x

Have you run into this before? Your app’s database table structure is predefined and unalterable. There are lookup tables (called pivot table in Laravel) t

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Cookies disappear after adding Set-Cookies in .htaccess? Here is how to get them back

Cookies disappear after adding Set-Cookies in .htaccess? Here is how to get them back

I needed to set a cookie via .htaccess, to ensure it was always in the browser, regardless of what the website was doing. Setting a cookie is rather easy,

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Using wget to crawl your website

Using wget to crawl your website

If you are looking to crawl your website for something like cache warming you can do so with wget quite easily. The following wget command will crawl a sit

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