Leave a Comment Management Alan Bollinger August 30, 2026
Reflecting on two decades of open source experience, this post highlights my journey building and contributing to various frameworks and tools while sharing key lessons on long-term software maintenance.
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This is a comprehensive guide to setting up a high-performance hosting environment for Laravel applications on Ubuntu. The guide covers the installation of required software, including Nginx, PHP 8.4, Node.js, and Certbot for SSL, as well a...
Read More »Leave a Comment Coding Alan Bollinger March 4, 2023
Did you know you can use #ChatGPT to generate #laravel code? As I work to explore AI and what it can do, I've created a Server provider using the AI. In this example, you can see the prompts and the responses from ChatGPT. It's pretty amazi...
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I am excited to speak at Laracon EU 2021 about the architectural trade-offs between choreography and orchestration in serverless microservices. Join me as I explore how to implement a hybrid model using Laravel to manage complex, distribute...
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Learn how to efficiently clean Microsoft Word special characters by using PHP to map Unicode artifacts to standard ASCII equivalents. This approach ensures your application handles imported text reliably without breaking HTML or JavaScript.
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We have transitioned our development stack to Laravel to leverage its modern architecture, robust tooling, and active ecosystem. Learn why this framework is our choice for building more maintainable and efficient applications.
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It's with a heavy heart that we must begin to phase out Kohana Framework from our projects. We will be migrating all current project and all future projects to a newer, more supported framework: Laravel. That is all. A About Kohana Koseve...
Read More »Leave a Comment Coding Alan Bollinger June 13, 2012
From time to time I need to install a way to accurately determine where users are located based on their header information. Thankfully there is a wonderful free database from MaxMind that gives you this ability when you install it with Apa...
Read More »Leave a Comment Coding Alan Bollinger May 7, 2012
Development Tools Netbeans - http://www.netbeans.org Dreamweaver for UI http://www.adobe.com Flux is good too and much cheaper (OSX Only) http://www.theescapers.com/flux/ TextWrangler for just simple text stuff (OSX Only) http://www.bar...
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