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When you're a one-man show, stuff happens in real life that slows your roll. I came down with the flu that knocked me out for a week. I promptly forgot the system in Laravel which put me back at step 1. This past week, I have been watching a lot of the videos on Laracast.com to familiarize myself with it once again. Hopefully, I'll have a more substantial update in the next blog.

Testing to see if blogs can be attached to a wiki forum.

These are notes of how I set up my local environment. I am developing on a Mac, all commands are for the terminal. vi /etc/hosts added in an entry pointing the new site to my localhost ex: 127.0.0.1 www.dev.newsite.com will ask for password when saving an updated host file install composer - https://getcomposer.org/download/ install laravel - https://laravel.com/docs/5.2 brew update brew doctor...

Originally, I had planned to go with PHP7 , Symfony3 and MySQL . Giant Bomb is currently using PHP5.6, Symfony 2.6 and MySQL. My thoughts were that I would build the pops site on the newer versions of the work tech and bring back the knowledge I gained to the group. But, on the recommendation of a co-worker, I decided to go with Laravel . It's a lightweight framework based off of Symfony. Symfo...

I am a developer for Giant Bomb , GameSpot and Comic Vine . I started off at CNET around August 2006 doing QA for GameSpot , TV.com and MP3.com . I did that for a number of years and then transitioned to becoming an developer around the time of the Giant Bomb rewrite. I could update on what I am currently doing, but you probably don't want to hear what I work on. I work in the dark shadows maki...