Laravel API Resources + JSON API Spec

API Resources are a new feature in Laravel 5.5 to convert objects to JSON responses. Here’s how to write API Resources that follow JSON API spec […]

Reduce Validation Bloat in Laravel Controllers

In Laravel or Lumen, I’ve often noticed that a significant portion of my controllers can be validation calls. To solve this, I moved validation rules to a config file. By doing so, you can often simplify validation to just a single line of code […]

Facebook Unveils HipHop for PHP

Today, Facebook announced it’s open sourcing a new runtime intended to improve PHP use in large-scale deployments. In a short summary, as Facebook scaled they encountered problems with PHP, including high CPU and memory costs. Facebook describes HipHop as a “source code transformer”. Basically, HipHop transforms PHP into C++, using g++ to compile it. In […]