Blog Posts

  • Redoubt on Laravel Weekly

    I’m happy to report that Redoubt, my ACL package for Laravel, was listed on Laravel Weekly! Yay!

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  • Setting up continuous deployment to Elastic Beanstalk

    We’ve been looking into setting up continuous integration and deployment at work. While the integration part of things is more or less a known quantity, the deployment side of things is a bit more challenging. I’ve had great success with Elastic Beanstalk thus far, and I wanted to find a way to use CI and […]

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  • Redoubt: a resource-level ACL for Laravel 4

    So I’ve put out my second package for Laravel 4: a resource-level ACL called Redoubt! It’s somewhat based on django-guardian but with a Laravel flair around it. It’s just the initial release for now, but I’ve got some ideas on new functionality. As with all modern PHP packages, it’s available on Packagist as greggilbert/redoubt, and […]

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  • Musings on Python

    A bunch of my friends and colleagues have extolled the virtues of Python for web development. So in trying to keep with the trends, I’ve been tinkering around with Python – specifically Django. So far I’ve built one successful project that’s currently running on Heroku, and the other one is still in development since it’s […]

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  • I can’t read HN anymore

    I’ve had my Hacker News account for just over four and a quarter years now, but I was reading it for quite awhile before I joined up. And for nearly the whole time, it’s been an invaluable resource for keeping on the cutting edge of technology. But in the last two weeks the site has […]

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