Ryan Tablada

The best streaming computer is the computer you have right now! Ok, I know every article on getting started streaming says this, but really… If you have a modern laptop or desktop from

NOTE This article started as a reply to a Slack message but morphed into something larger. It is not a complete discussion, but just some thoughts I had around the topic of state

I come home, throw the week's mail on the counter grab a glass of water and start to head towards my gaming options. On the table is my PS Vita charging for

I still don't travel as much as many developers I know: but, I have traveled a lot more this year than ever before. So, the night before I travel out to New

Creating a new Project Right now Ember-CLI is in a bit of a teenage stage. While the 1.13.x branch of Ember CLI is crazy stable, I would rather get the

For a while now, most of my new development has been working on interaction heavy client-side apps. So, with this, I've been wanting a better way of throwing up APIs fast.

Yes, I realize that we are now over a month past E3 and the Destiny wars, but today it struck me that there is a HUGE group of players that are being overlooked

It has been exactly one year to the day since I officially started working on EmberGrep (there was a lot of planning before I settled on the domain but that's how I'

Last year I wrote three different articles. And I have to admit something… Repositories After reading Fowler's "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture", I found that I royally messed things up. Repositories actually

Laravel ships with a fairly nice default password broker. It creates an auto-expiring reset token, associates that with the user, and sends an email to the user all in one nice fairly

On today's check in (yes, I went MIA for a bit), I wanted to do something a bit different and cover my recording setup and hardware. The Audio Input While I went

After creating an API with Laravel 5 about a month ago, I was really liking the new directory structure and some of the features that were available. Today, I tried to replicate this

Today was the second day for me working hard on reproducing "Zero to Prototype". It was exciting, but, there was a major hurdle. To be honest, I only went through my editing and

To be completely candid, this is the story of the last month of EmberGrep. It's been a hard journey for me, and I've grown through the process. This is just some

In development, everything that we do is a trade-off. Sometimes, we don't act like it is, and we are lying to ourselves. Languages are a trade-off I spend almost all

There's been a new discussion over what to call yourself when describing what you do as a developer. I've sort of even bloged about it in the past. Over the last

I am writing today to say that I am having to postpone the release of the EmberGrep course "From Zero To Prototype". While doing a set of QA and production review this morning,

The first thing that started getting me interested in a new way of emitting responses was listening to talks on hexagonal architecture. Essentially, having methods on a listener that would call a success

My good friends Alex Finley and @coderabbi challenged me to take the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge to help raise funds and awareness for the ALS Association. I took the challenge (and Walker kicked

For the past year, I have been battling with trying to get cell service in my home and place of work. After a year of logging and reporting low signal, dropped calls, and

Hello Ember Data can be uncomfortable to work with at times. Some developers even see it as a lot of bloat. But, I would argue if you aren't using Ember Data, you

So, I do have to start off and say that I have not implemented a Russian Doll Caching solution. This article is highly theoretical and just meant to start a conversation about a

If you follow me, you know that I am heavily involved in both the Ember and Laravel communities. Thus, I have taken it upon myself to help define the development story for working

In the past, when working with Javascript libraries that required diffrent JSON formatting, I have base models that extended Eloqent and changed the toArray function. It was super hacky and required a ton

Just shut up and give us Kingdom Hearts 3, FF VII HD, and FF XV. That is all.

Probably one of the biggest issues that I've had so far with our latest Ember projects has been working with has been getting a good way to upload files on an Ember

Working is extremely nice once you have a grasp on the basic concepts. But, one of the coolest promises (some pun intended) is the ability to use the render view helper. At its

Ember is all about your URL and keeping it up to date with your application. If you care about sharing, keeping your place, bookmarking, SEO, and more; you too should really care about

The other day, I saw something that really encompasses one of the biggest hurdles for younger developers to get through. That hurdle is terminology. These days, there is all sorts of "___ driven

It's been less than eight hours of using Hipchat (we are trying Slack as well). It's been very cool to say the least. And really, I think our entire team is

We face an interesting balance as developers. We want to keep our code maintainable, yet we also want to keep things concise, and we never want to repeat ourselves. I think that this

Today, I finally read Jeremy Ashkenas's blog post on [Literate Coffeescript]() and really have to say, I agree with the point that he is trying to make. In essence, we as programmers

So, Google announced its short list of who might get Google Fibre. I am incredibly excited, and was when I got an embargo based release announcement before the public announcement. But, I do

This post isn't meant to be a bashing of the gaming media and the idea of scoring games. A ten point scale or a thumb rating makes sense. But, I think it

Ok, so there was a ton of outrage over the CocaCola ad from the Super Bowl. Racist and bigoted comments flew across social media like most days. But, those arguments are just so

As you may know, there has been some serious acusations of copyright and content infringement and plagiarism plaguing the web development community. I do not wish to go point fingers, but I do

I love working in Laravel, Symfony makes web apps awesome, Django does amazing things, Rails made frameworks cool. But, we have to keep things straight when working with frameworks. These aren't magical

As I've noted before, freedom of schedule and scheduling my leisure time is huge for me! But, I think one of the issues that a lot of people run into is how

Last week, I watched the VGX live stream. And after a week and being prompted by a survey I have some thoughts on the event. Below is the response to the survey question:

Working with jQuery Ajax File Uploader with Laravel can be relatively simple. However, things can be confusing on both sides when working outside of the regular examples from the site. To start things

Today, I want to address the issue of reinventing the wheel in the name of comfort. Before you feel like I'm singling you out, consider that I have rewritten or helped to

Another day, another project, another prototype to work with. If you are like me, you are probably sick of looking at Bootstrap every day for year. Things were only made worse with Bootstrap

So, if you are a gamer (even if you're not) this week will be a small step forward in gaming. I'm talking about the release of the Playstation 4. But mostly,

After a while of working with Laravel and various MVC frameworks, I have found that there is a good bit of standard coding that goes into scaffolding applications. I'm not the first

In the world of PHP, it seems like there has been a flurry of different inheritance and contract patterns being used. Unfortunately, a lot of developers seem to be running around like headless

When working with larger Laravel projects, one question always seems to come up: "How do I organize all of this code?" Many people have begun to suggest new ways to go about this.

There comes a time in all of our lives where we want to deal with a heap of notifications to present to a user on a dashboard. This seems like it could be

Today in @PHPDrama land there was a divergent schism in the Drupal world. This isn't the first time that a simliar argument has been brought up in the PHP community or the

Lately, I have been working on multiple projects that have to deal with Polymorphic relationships, Many-To-Many, relationships, and the occasional Polymorphic Many-To-Many relationship. In working with these, a few

I feel that Taylor and I may have led some of you astray in the Laravel community. After a few posts about dependency injection and the Repository pattern, it seems as if it

Clarification This article has been edited to reflect time spent with each framework and a few other relevant facts I have finally made the plunge to really dig into Ember.js. But, if

Hey guys, it's been a while since I have written something up and just wanted to give you a heads up on what I have been working on. Recently, I have been

Today, I was playing with Ember Model while looking at refactoring from a raw Backbone project to Ember. Since writing this article, I have found a more useful reopen method within Ember's

Let's face it, web-design has had some huge anti-patterns to grow out of. Luckily, I started a bit later in the game where things like the new HTML5 and CSS3

If you have worked with Laravel, chances are you started straight away using Eloquent ORM and skipped over raw DB queries. However, you may have missed the coolness that is Fluent QueryBuilder. If

There is a lot going on with Laravel's Eloquent ORM, but to start things off in this series, we will actually start things off and look at how Eloquent Models boot up

Eloquent ORM is probably one of features that draws the most users to Laravel. However, I find that after a bit of working with Laravel, many users don't quite get what is

Often times, you want to offer your users other ways to interact with your package. A common usecase is to give a REST API in your package to handle data. For Laravel-FAQ

Today we'll go over an easy topic, we will look at how to give your users the ability to swap out views in your Laravel Packages. Traditionally, you may develop a Package

Two weeks ago, I discussed Two Design Patterns That Will Make Your Applications Better. Since then, there has been high demand for a demonstration of the Repository Pattern in action. Today, we'll

As I begin to create more full featured Laravel packages, I find that I want to offer the ability for users to specify different database credentials for my package than the ones used

The FAQ package came as a direct need for a dynamic FAQ section for the marketing site for iOffertory. Over the next few posts, I will dive into production code and give you

The last two weeks, I have tried to look at Routing a bit more indepth and have tried to suggest conventions that can help your code perform better and be easier to modify

Today we will look at starting to create Laravel 4 Packages with routing options. In conventional Package development in the past, you would have to create Bundle routes or ask your users to

Finishing off the week of advanced routing in Laravel, I am going to mix the techniques while also covering a few more things and giving practical examples. In the last posts on routing:

Laravel is incredible for beginners, yet I find that a ton of developers posting comments on how "Laravel doesn't do XXX by default" so it can't be done and there is

Getting into design patterns can be a bit of a tricky subject. An analogy would be like having a kid interested in engineering go from playing with box cars to telling them to

Coming from Java and C++ and moving into PHP and Javascript, one of the problems that I ran into was the fact that PHP and Javascript don't have traditional ways to overload

Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had C.S. Lewis Things today have been

One of the big learning curves for creating Laravel projects is working with routes and how to organize everything in your project. Today's post is going to look at just this problem.

When testing Models, it can be a bit confusing where to start. But a great way to start is to test the attributes available in your Model. For this, I suggest the following.

If you have tried catching up with me since graduating University you may have been a found me off-putting and surrounding in mystery. I apologize for any guise of either shady deals

Ok, so arguably, a blog that is usually about development nonsense with pictures of Gorn is probably the wrong audience for a soapbox on my own frustration (but isn't that what ranting

As a foray into the second week of bidaily posts, I aim to make even more people mad about TDD. See, the first time you made a program you were doing some form

This week saw my first major TDD project. It started off without a hitch. A slow grind for sure, but my mocking was superb (at least for a beginner). That is, until I

The idea of creating more sustainable code seems to be a topic of war in development communities these days. To one side, hackathon regulars throw together spagetified code that takes days to debug

To start this article, I must say that iOS7 is a peice of art. It's looks seem a bit hit or miss depending on where you stand on design, but arguably, it