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Dayle Rees
Personal blog · daylerees.comprogrammingweb
Dayle Rees's personal blog at daylerees.com covers programming and web. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Dayle Rees writes Laravel PHP framework tutorials on his blog, later compiled into ebooks such as Code Bright. Commenters point newcomers to these tutorials for learning Laravel.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Laravel evangelist, design enthusiast, technical author, colour-scheme engineer and all-round nerd. Here you'll find a bunch of articles about development and other exiting things!
Most-linked posts?
- /codebright2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-19
What Hacker News says?
Do you have experience in Rails? Honestly, Laravel just feels like "PHP on Rails" to me. It's a full framework like Rails, so it takes some getting used to. The Code Bright [1] tutorial was great for learning the syntax, and the Laravel documentation [2] helps during development I'm not sure what your idea is, exactly, but once you get Laravel up and running it's fairly easy to do what it sounds like you're saying.…
Comment linking /codebright
on “Laravel Forge – PHP Platforms On Linode, DigitalOcean, AWS, Rackspace”Submitted Article: A primer for the Composer dependency management system for PHP. as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIn this era of frameworks, I'm glad to see a modern CMS pop up. Props for that. We really didn't need another templating language though. Especially one that looks nearly identical to the blade templating language. ( http://daylerees.com/codebright/blade )
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on “Show HN: Pagekit – A new, modern CMS built with Symfony components”Submitted PHP Namespaces Explained as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHey all, glad you find getlaravel.com useful. You could also checkout my blog which has 22+ Laravel tutorials including tips and tricks : http://daylerees.com . There is also an ebook available, linked from the site. Thanks!
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on “Laravel : A New PHP Framework”Submitted PHP Interfaces Explained as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI am not monetizing my blog but the eBook/ad routes seems to be the most successful way to do it. For example Dayle Rees writes blog posts on the PHP framework Laravel [1] and then compiles them into eBooks [2][3] that he sells. [0] http://daylerees.com/ [1] http://laravel.com/ [2] https://leanpub.com/codehappy [3] https://leanpub.com/codebright
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on “Ask HN: Do you earn income from your developer blog?”Laravel is best learned from the documentation. Laravel 5 changed a lot, but most things from Laravel 4 still apply; I'd recommend looking at Dayle Rees' Code Bright along with the official docs http://daylerees.com/codebright You're right about the criticism though, it's hard to find any quality comparison on the internet, that's why I've posted here, in hopes of finding a lesser biased comparison, especially from…
Comment linking /codebright
on “Ask HN: What web languages and frameworks would you recommend learning today?”