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Jamison Valenta

Jamison Valenta

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Are Your Queue Workers ... Working?

Using Envoyer’s heartbeats to ensure your queues are running

Oct 24, 2022 · Jamison Valenta

Let's walk through a simple and lightweight strategy to notify you when a queue isn't processing jobs. I'll give you the code, and talk about some ways I would consider extending it.

Legacy Web Apps

Oct 14, 2022 · Jamison Valenta, Dave Hicking, Zuzana Kunckova

Jamison Valenta (a Programmer at Tighten) joins us this week to dive deep into legacy apps - what to do if you've inherited one, how to know when to upgrade them, and a lot more. Transcript Dave Hicking:...

Catching Up Laravel

How to Safely and Efficiently Upgrade an Out-of-Date Laravel App

Aug 8, 2022 · Jamison Valenta

If you're running a Laravel application in the 5's, have a legacy application bootstrapped inside Laravel, don't have any tests, or are staring in silent terror at just how long ago your production server's PHP version hit its end-of-life, this post is for you!

A Cautionary Tale of Nondeterministic Laravel Pagination

Aug 16, 2017 · Jamison Valenta

TL;DR: There's a very common pagination setup that may end up with users never seeing some of their results because of how SQL handles sorts by columns other than the index. I'll show why and how to fix...

Lambo: Quick New Application Creation with Laravel and Valet

Sep 21, 2016 · Jamison Valenta

Imagine, if you will, a web developer who, for some reason, wants to spin up a Laravel app to develop in as quickly as humanly possible. Maybe this developer wants to write a blog post about a new feature in Laravel, or wants a quick test...

Simple SSL Verification Using Laravel & Environment Variables

Prove control of your client domains for SSL verification without modifying your project directories

May 4, 2016 · Jamison Valenta

In my previous post, I detailed an nginx config structure for providing white label domain services in your application under SSL. When you...

Serving Multiple SSL-Encrypted Domains from One Application in Nginx

Mar 2, 2016 · Jamison Valenta

It's a common pattern for web applications to want to provide each user a unique subsection of the site. It might be a single user information page, or it may be an entirely separate application (think something like Harvest or Slack). The two...

Writing Custom Slack Slash Commands: Basic GIF Search

How I learned to stop fearing Giphy and love the GIF [again]

Jan 19, 2016 · Jamison Valenta

Background Once upon a time, Tighten—an entirely distributed team—did all of our chatting in Campfire. Like many Campfire-enabled teams, we had a HUBOT that we used for primarily silly purposes....

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