Microsoft/Windows This post will explain how to modify the hosts file on a Windows machine (this post will work for Windows Vista and newer). There are a few different reasons you may need to modify the hosts file, and the most...

Laravel No matter what application you're developing, or what platform you are developing on, it is a safe bet you need to get input from your users some how. Laravel 4 provides a really convenient way to do this using...

Laravel Laravel 4 offers Views, a way to separate your applications controllers and business logic from your presentation layer. Sometimes, it can be useful to render the view into a local variable instead of...

Laravel Environments in Laravel 4 are a great way to develop your application and have it respond to the environment it is running in. For example, most applications have two environments that they will ever...

PHP PHP version 5.3 introduced a new feature called anonymous functions, or lambda functions. You may have come across them in other languages such as C# or Ruby. They allow for greater flexibility and offer a...