Material Design – How Google designed Android L (7min video)
A very interesting insight into Android L’s (= Android 5.0) new design and the ideas behind. Android was always #3
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Install Laravel 4 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (a how-to tutorial)
Laravel 4 is the big thing. Every blog talks about it, nearly every developer-twitter-account mentions it. Hmm, looks like everybody
New project: Building a naked PHP skeleton / boilerplate application from scratch
[This post is from November 2013. In the meantime (I’m writing this in November 2014) the project has changed its
How to install sqlite driver for PHP in Ubuntu & Debian
It’s easy to install sqlite (for usage with PHP): sudo apt-get install php5-sqlite This will also restart apache (on modern
How to copy Vagrant boxes (or duplicate them)
Copy vagrant box & compress it Making a real 1:1 copy of a Vagrant box is really easy ! Simply
How to install latest PHP 5.4.x on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin)
Disclaimer: Currently 5.5 is the very latest version of PHP, but the common way to install PHP 5.5 has a
Soundcloud’s “VP of Engineering” about using SSDs
Excellent [german] statement from Alexander Grosse (Soundcloud’s Vice President of Engineering) about using SSDs for the main application (music data
How to install the mcrypt php extension (to use Laravel 4)
When installing Laravel 4 on a fresh Ubuntu or Debian system, you’ll probably get this error message: “Laravel requires the
Ignore .idea folder from git in PHPStorm
By default (?) PHPStorm will create a hidden folder named .idea directly within your project, containing user-specific stuff like chosen
A PHPStorm shortcuts cheat sheet (for Windows, Mac OS and Linux)
Shortcuts that will make you life so much easier! Please note: Frontend Devs might be irritated by the weird CTRL-Y-shortcut,
A list of downloadable Vagrant boxes (CentOS 5.9 / 6.4, Ubuntu 12 / 13, Debian 6 / 7 / 7.1 / 7.2)
Offical boxes (directly from Vagrant) Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32-bit http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box Boxes from puppetlabs.com Seems