I’m Paul, a software engineer by trade. I’m currently the CTO for Square1.io, and am based in Dublin, Ireland.
PHP UK is a fantastic developer conference which I have enjoyed attending many times in the past. This year was a little different, as I took to the stage for the first time!
Idempotency is a critical concept to be aware of when building robust APIs, and is baked into the SDKs of companies like Stripe, Paypal, Shopify, and Amazon. But what exactly is idempotency? And how can we easily add support for it to our Laravel APIs?
Effortlessly collect SEPA bank details using Stripe and Cloudflare Workers. Learn how to streamline the process in this serverless tutorial.
Rolling averages are perfect for smoothing out time-series data, helping you to gain insight from noisy graphs and tables. This new package adds first-class support to Laravel Collections for rolling average calculation.
Lazy loading of images helps to radically speed up initial page load. Rich site designs often call for background images, which can't be lazily loaded in the same way. How can we keep our designs, while optimising for a fast initial load?
Back in 1990, Ireland qualified for the men's football World Cup for the first time. It was a very exciting time for the whole country, though as an eight year old I wasn't quite up to speed on the finer details of why...
