https://amsoell.com/blog/ Recent content in Blogs on Andy Soell Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 07 Jan 2019 11:43:58 +0100 https://amsoell.com/blog/hosting-static-sites-with-aws/ Mon, 07 Jan 2019 11:43:58 +0100 https://amsoell.com/blog/hosting-static-sites-with-aws/ I’ve recently rebuilt my personal web site, and I wanted to take a moment to talk about the DevOps side of things for a change. I’ve used variety of platforms over the years, including many disparate technologies. Most recently the site was built leveraging WordPress, tracked via GitHub, and deployed to a DigitalOcean instance using DeployBot. In the years since, Amazon’s AWS offerings have continued to grow and I’ve become much more familiar with how they work—and how they all work together—so I wanted to take advantage of the opportunity here to see what it was like to go “all-in” on the AWS ecosystem on a project. https://amsoell.com/blog/why-i-still-love-laravel/ Mon, 07 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://amsoell.com/blog/why-i-still-love-laravel/ Earlier this year I reviewed some of the things that I love most about Laravel, the incredibly popular PHP application framework. Features like the Eloquent database abstraction layer, built-in unit testing, and Git-friendly database schema tracking through Migrations are some of the fundamental things that make the choice to use Laravel something of a no-brainer. In the time since that post I have continued to leverage Laravel for client projects as well as some products of my own, and I wanted to take the time to talk about some more built-in features of Laravel that make applications fast, full-featured, and scalable. https://amsoell.com/blog/why-i-love-laravel/ Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://amsoell.com/blog/why-i-love-laravel/ For the longest time I was a language purist. Every line of code I wrote was done by hand using nothing but a simple text editor and a PHP reference book. Inline tag completion? That’s cheating! Starting templates? Shortcuts are for the weak! And programming frameworks? Why would I tie myself to an abstraction when I can write “real code?” This was the early 2000’s though, and things have come a long way since then.