The Business Case for Laravel
Ask any Laravel developer about why they use Laravel, and they’ll instantly give you lots of geeky information about things like the expressive syntax, the way the ORM allows complex queries to be built quickly even for the largest databases, and how AuthController automatically uses BCrypt to hash user password databases. If that sounds like […]
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Welcome Pablo Scasso!
We would like to welcome Pablo Scasso, our new Frontend Developer here at SiteRocket Labs! In case you’re wondering, “frontend code” is the part of a website that loads in your browser and that you interact with. Everything that you see on a website – from colors and fonts to dropdown menus and buttons, is […]
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10 Things to Consider When Hiring a Web Development Company
It’s notoriously hard to find good web app developers and web development companies – demand outstrips supply, resumes and websites are filled with technical jargon, and the best people are in such high demand that it can be difficult to even get their attention. Signing a contract with the wrong web development firm can cost […]
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MailChimp Pricing: Monthly vs. Pay As You Go
MailChimp is a nice, easy-to-use service for sending email newsletters. (If you’ve never used them but their name sounds familiar, they have also sponsored almost every single podcast ever made!) Our clients use MailChimp, and we had a question the other day about the details of how MailChimp’s pricing works. (Note that all the prices below […]
Read MoreEsensi/Loaders: A Handy New Laravel Package!
Hooray for Laravel 5! We are so happy to see the latest major release of the world’s most beloved PHP framework, Laravel. In the last two weeks, we’ve been upgrading all of our projects from Laravel 4.2 to Laravel 5. Taylor Otwell and a team of contributors put a ton of great work into this version! Laravel […]
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Monitoring Elasticsearch Cluster Health in Slack
We’ve been very happy Slack users since November 2013 — over a year! We use Slack for communication and collaboration. We also use Slack to centralize other sorts of information such as service status RSS feeds (like the AWS EC2 NoVa status feed or Ubuntu security alerts), Twitter feeds (to keep track of news from @jquery or Jeffery Way’s awesome @laracasts), software releases […]
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So, Someone Asked You for Your Public Key.
So, Someone Asked You for Your Public Key. So, someone asked you for your public key, and you’re pretty sure they want your SSH public key, but you don’t really know what to do. This simple guide will walk you through creating a new OpenSSH RSA keypair that you can use to do things like […]
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Managing Multiple Google AdSense Accounts with Multiple Users
Google’s AdSense product allows publishers (as in, website owners) to sell ads on their sites through Google’s ad network. Though less lucrative than it once was, display and text ad revenue from AdSense can really help a site’s bottom line. In terms of functionality, AdSense has always lagged behind other Google products — long after […]
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Welcome Aboard Diego!
The warmest welcome to Diego Caprioli, our newly minted Senior Software Engineer here at SiteRocket Labs! Diego’s “Senior” title is well-earned; he’s been coding since 1998. He has planned and directed large-scale web development projects for Toyota, General Electric, and other major corporations. Diego will be using his wide-ranging experience to help us build robust […]
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