Selecting carefully with Laravel joins

Laravel comes packaged with an ORM called Eloquent, which is one of the better PHP tools for dealing with your database layer using objects. It provides all of the features you'd expect from a modern relational mapper, and cleanly uses some PHP magic to make the process pleasant. But it has its …

Knowledge Roundup: Week of 12/14

This is just a dumping ground for articles/books/tools that stuck out to me over the last week.

Most of the articles I read come from some excellent newsletter sources: Javascript Weekly, HTML5 Weekly, Ruby Weekly, Node Weekly, Database Weekly, and the Code Project Newsletter. Books are from a …