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In Laravel you can set your environment specific variables by using the .env file. In the application you can then easily retrieve the variable by using the env('VARIABLE_NAME') function. This file is not be meant to be added to git. This way you can a secret values in your project without accidentally add them to git and sharing them.

This week i attended the European version of Laracon. It was a lot of fun and i talked to a lot of friends. There where a lot of great talks.

Deploying an application can be hard. The new code must be pulled in, permissions must be set, migrations must be run, etc. In some cases the whole website goes down while deploying a new version. And the more that must be done manual, the more can, and eventually, will go wrong.

Since a few years everyone seems to be using Laravel for about everything. That is completely understandable, as it provides some great features. The only downside is that when there is a (security) bug this is easily exploited.

A few weeks back it was my birthday. I never now what to ask that is cheap enough for most people. But this time i thought of the Raspberry PI Zero W.

Composer is a revolution in the PHP world. You can use it to manage your dependencies, but it can be slow on big projects.

Want to know how to change the url of your GIT repository? That is quite simple.

Travis is an awesome tool and my goto for Continues Integration and Continues Deployment. This is a quick win to speed up your linting.