mattstauffer.com is the personal blog of Matt Stauffer, a web developer, author, and educator specializing in Laravel, PHP, and full-stack web development. Matt shares tutorials, insights, and resources on modern web development, covering topics like backend development, JavaScript, and Laravel best practices. He is also the author of Laravel: Up & Running and a host of the Laravel Podcast. Through his blog, Matt provides practical advice for developers, project management tips, and insights into maintaining a productive development workflow. His content is designed to help developers of all levels improve their skills and stay updated with the latest trends in the web development industry.
176 Articles from this blog
A guide on how to schedule cron jobs using Laravel Forge, explaining the process and its benefits for background tasks.
A guide to setting up global package managers (RVM, NPM, Homebrew) on a new OS X development machine for managing system and app dependencies.
Part 3 of a guide on setting up an OS X dev machine, focusing on managing configuration files (dotfiles) and custom SSH settings.
A guide to setting up core files and customizing the terminal environment (Zsh/OhMyZsh) on a new OS X development machine.
A guide on setting up a Laravel queue worker with Beanstalkd using Laravel Forge, including a warning about environment detection.
Explains how to detect environments in Laravel Forge using environment variables and recommends best practices.
A tutorial on configuring Laravel Forge to send application and system logs to the Papertrail logging service for centralized monitoring.
A step-by-step guide to deploying your first Laravel application using Laravel Forge, a platform-as-a-service for server management.
A tutorial on configuring a Laravel application to use a PostgreSQL database when deploying on the Heroku platform.
A guide on setting up and connecting a Laravel application to a MySQL database using the ClearDB add-on on the Heroku platform.
A step-by-step guide to deploying a Laravel application on Heroku, covering setup, configuration, and deployment.
The author built Markedstyle, a web app using Laravel to manage and share custom CSS styles for the Marked Markdown previewer.
A guide to automatically download the latest SQL database backup daily using shell scripts and cron jobs on Unix systems.
Explains how to use PHP's short ternary operator (?:) for more concise code, replacing repetitive variable checks.
A developer rediscovers his passion for PHP after discovering the Laravel framework, which overcomes the language's traditional shortcomings.
A developer shares how he unintentionally created a bootstrapped startup, Karani, while working a non-tech job and later realized he was an entrepreneur.
