Should you buy Things 3 in 2022? Things 4 may be on the way. I cannot recommend purchasing Things until v4 is released. The company has refused to make an official policy that would give free updates to anyone who purchases even a day before Things 4's potential announcment. If you wait for version 4, there's a good chance the new suite of apps
Laravel Force file download from AWS S3 in Laravel Amazon's S3 is a great solution for storing files, and Laravel makes it easy to use. Occasionally you'll need to force files to download instead of just showing it in the browser, but thankfully this is easy too! Rather than wasting your server resources to streaming the file from S3
Laravel Fix ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED with Laravel Valet .dev Domains in Google Chrome Starting with Google Chrome v63, any domain using the .dev extension will be forced to use HTTPS. What does this mean? If you're using .dev in combination with Laravel Valet, you should switch to .test which is reserved specifically for developer use. You can easily do this by running the
MySQL Database query for overlapping date ranges for events, appointments, and more When building an application that handles events, appointments, or any sort of data with a start and end time, you'll eventually find that you need to do a MySQL query for events that overlap a date range. The two most common uses include: Allow users to filter events by date
Laravel Upgrading to Bootstrap 4 in Laravel 5.5 With Bootstrap 4 now in beta, many people are beginning to switch their projects over to V4. Obviously the migration process requires changing existing markup, which you can learn more about in the official guide), but for this guide I'll only be covering how to integrate it in your Laravel
Laravel How to set default values when casting NULL attributes in Laravel One of the many useful features of Eloquent is the ability to define accessors and mutators. Mutators can help you if there's something you'd like to do with a value (like hashing a password) every time it gets set on your model. Accessors are for doing something every time you
LIRCbar LIRCbar is a small app that runs in your Mac's menu bar allowing easy access to your infrared remotes through your lirc_web installation.
The Value of Typing The single most important class I ever took in school was typing. The classes where we played computer games were fun and sometimes educational, the classes where we learned Microsoft Office might have been good at the time and taught a few computing principles, but typing is a skill I
Tips and Tricks for iOS 5 It's launch day for iOS 5, the latest operating system for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Apple claims the update includes more than 200 new features, but you'll probably only notice 10 or so. Here are some of my favorite new features in iOS 5 and how to get
Tips and Tricks for Lion Gestures Last week Apple released Lion, the latest version of their desktop operating system. Ever since the first announcement of Lion, they've made it clear they were getting "back to the Mac" by bringing it some of the best features from iOS on the iPhone and iPad. I won't
Becoming a ThinkUp Contributor I've been building websites for a long time, and I'm still learning. I was still in elementary school when I started learning HTML, and things have come a long way since then. Only a few years ago I started learning how to use a CMS to make regular updates easier,
