A curation of personal opinions and technical articles.
I shared this message with my group of friends and I thought it wise to publish here also. Guys, We all have to Challenge ourselves to be better next year. Career wise, relationships, social life. Hold yourself to a greater calling. Be kind to people, treat people with respect. Understand that each and everyone you meet is different. Be a…
In the previous chapter, we had a brief introduction to slim3 and we set up our application to use Laravel’s Eloquent to communicate with our database. We also created our database schema and setup Phinx to help with our migration files. Finally, we included a validation package that ensures our users submit the right data to our API.In…
Slim framework took off in 2013 when Josh Lockhart released the first version of the framework. The idea was to create a PHP micro framework that helps PHP developers quickly and easily write web applications and APIs. Over time, Slim has risen to risen to the point of competing with other PHP frameworks, like Laravel, Symphony, Codeigniter amongst others. In…
If you have used Laravel for a while, you should have heard a lot about multiple authentications. You should have also heard “guards” a whole lot. But if you are fairly new to Laravel, multiple authentications makes it possible for you to have different classes of users access different/similar parts of the same application. There are many reasons why…
Writing tests for an application is a great software development practice. Often, it is the first coding task to be performed before building the features of an application. As the first coding task, tests are initially written to fail because we have no code to satisfy the requirements of the test. Once our tests fails, we can can then build…
Frontend with multi-language styling In the previous chapters, we looked at what an international application is and the different things to consider when making one. We started building our tour guide application and made the backend of the application. We also added multilingual support for the basic pages and content. In this chapter, we will focus on making the…
Creating multi-language string maps In the previous chapters, we looked at what an international application is and the different things to consider when building one. We got started with the tour guide application and made the backend of our application. In this chapter, we will look at how to add support for multiple languages on our application. Prerequisites Read…
The setup and application backend In the last chapter, we looked at what an international application should be like. We covered some fundamental issues to consider when building an international application. We differentiated between what a multilingual application is and what a multi-regional application is. We also addressed what to do when building any of such applications. In this…
Internationalization and accessibility When your application has users from different countries with different languages, having different content tailored to each region is a good step at improving the overall user experience of your application. You would have to worry about content, images, illustrations all appearing in the local language. You also need to consider multiple accessibility options to ensure every…
I am not much of a writer, neither a poet; but someone once said: “If you want to be extraordinary, You have to stop doing the ordinary”. I believe as Humans, we all are under-utilizing our senses, Most especially our brain as regards to logical thinking and exploring its capabilities. (I am not here to argue about the 10%…