400 Bad Request Bug Caused by Airplane

I was working on my recruiting site on my two hour flight from LA to Seattle. Shortly after we took off, I realized I had a bug on one of my recruiting site pages. On this page, I am displaying a report showing all candidates and their skills test scores via Datatables (Ajax). For some reason the Ajax request to my server was returning a 400 error: Invalid URL.… read more “400 Bad Request Bug Caused by Airplane”

Reading “Contact” By Carl Sagan

I am 75% of the way through reading “Contact” by Carl Sagan. It has been moderately entertaining, although Carl Sagan is guilty of the cardinal writing sin of telling and not showing. Makes for a less interesting read when he just has these long rants or explanatory sections.

Laravel View Composer

I watched a Laracast video this morning on View Composers… these will be very helpful to me. For a long time I have wondered how to avoid calling the same code repeatedly for showing a piece of code on a page, and now I have the answer!