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Software Engineer and Web Developer from Scotland

Code style violations: The arch enemy of maintainable code everywhere (Fixer CI)

Code style violations are the arch enemy of maintainable code everywhere. OK, I’m being a bit dramatic, but there is value to be had in…
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Jun 16

Sermon Hosting — Helping churches share their ministry with the world

TLDR; I’m launching a new service to help churches host their sermons in a hassle free way: https://sermonhosting.net
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Mar 6

Modifying Variables in PHP Closures

This one caught me out yesterday. If you use a variable in a PHP closure and try and modify it inside the closure, you will find that the…
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Feb 10
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Splashify — Beautiful Desktop Wallpapers for Mac and Windows

Splashify — Beautiful Desktop Wallpapers for Mac and Windows

Yesterday I announced the release of my Christmas side project Splashify.
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Gilbert Pellegrom
Jan 11

2016 Year In Review

As has been my tradition for the last six years now, I like to spend a bit of time on the last day of the year to reflect, consider the…
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Gilbert Pellegrom
Dec 31, 2016
Selling My First Business (Dev7studios.com)

Selling My First Business (Dev7studios.com)

Last week I sold my first business. It’s not the first project I’ve sold, but it’s by far the biggest and was my main source of business…
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Gilbert Pellegrom
Nov 24, 2016

Convert the Laravel Spark invoice email to a Mail Notification email

Recently when customizing the invoice email template for Laravel Spark I noticed that it didn’t have any styles applied (raw HTML emails…
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Gilbert Pellegrom
Nov 14, 2016

Running PHPUnit Tests in Docker

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Sep 27, 2016
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