Prioritizing Queued Jobs in Laravel (Beanstalkd Driver)
When jobs are dispatched and queued in Laravel, they are processed in the order that they were dispatched. I needed a way to process specific jobs before others, irrespective of …
Monitor Scheduled Tasks in Laravel
If you have tasks that run using Laravel’s Task Scheduling feature, you may want to monitor that these tasks ran and what output they generated. You can currently use sendOutputTo() …
Classifying Soft and Hard Deletion in Eloquent Model Observers
Here’s a clean way to distinguish between soft & hard deletion events on your soft deletable Eloquent model. Include this trait into your Observer. You can find the gist here …
Preventing a Console Command from Running on Production
This is a helper trait that I use when I have a Laravel console command that I’m using on development but would never want that command to run in a …
AVL Tree in Java
An AVL tree is a self-balancing binary tree. That’s all I remember from when I wrote this java implementation of an AVL Tree a few years ago. This code may …
MySQL Affected Rows vs Rows Matched
PHP’s mysql_affected_rows() is used to get the number of rows that were “affected” by the last query executed using mysql_query(). Therefore, an UPDATE query that set the value of a …
Preventing Duplicate Local Names with Zip Archive
When creating a zip archive with PHP’s ZipArchive utility, you have the option of specifying a local name for each file so that when the zip is downloaded and extracted, …
Enabling External Access to Your Apache Web Server on Windows 7
This article will guide you through the steps of enabling access to your web server from a computer outside of your network by using your computer’s external IP address. Steps …
Secure Password Encryption using BCrypt with PHP
Implementing login functionality in your application comes with the responsibility of securely storing your users’ passwords in your database. Storing the password as plain text is highly irresponsible since a …
Getting the Name of a Font from a TTF, OTF File
Font files such as TTF and OTF have metadata embedded in them with information such as the font’s name, what font family it belongs to and so forth. I wrote …