Chris Gmyr
Developer, entrepreneur, drummer, biker, dog owner, husband, and proud dad. Loves Laravel and coffee

Tips, Tricks, and Good Practices with Laravel's Eloquent

08/17/2018

This is a talk I gave at TrianglePHP on Aug 16, 2018. We'll learn how Eloquent functions on the basic levels, continue through some more well-known methods and some possibly lesser known ones. Then we'll finish with some more advanced ideas and techniques. Read More

Convert your Bootstrap CSS to Tailwind with Tailwindo

05/30/2018

I’ve recently been working on converting one of my side projects from Bootstrap to Tailwind and came across awssat/tailwindo. This package does precisely that – automatically converts Bootstrap component classes to Tailwind utility classes. Read More

The Latest in PHP: April 2018 Edition

04/13/2018

Every month for the last year at TrianglePHP we've been presenting a segment called "The Latest in PHP" where we look at new features, product and framework releases, and spotlight news articles. Not everyone in the community is as up-to-date as others, so this gives everyone a chance to see what's new before our main presentation. Read More

Deploying Specific Branches with Laravel, CircleCI, and Envoyer

04/06/2018

A few weeks ago I was trying to update a side project's CircleCI config from version 1 to version 2 since they are depreciating V1 in August 2018. In the process, I was curious how I could deploy specific branches to specific environments in Laravel's Envoyer if the tests passed successfully. Read More

Getting Started with Signed Routes in Laravel

03/21/2018

In Laravel 5.6.12 a new signed URLs feature was introduced. In this article, we’ll work on enabling signed URLs in an application and look at a few options of how to use them. Read More