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James Brooks
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James Brooks
Laravel
@jbrooksuk
Head of Enterprise Enablement @laravel • Speaker • Founder @cachethq • Organiser @phpstoke.
Staffordshire, United Kingdom
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Joined February 2009
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    James Brooks
    Laravel
    @jbrooksuk
    May 26, 2021
    👋🏻 Say hello to the @laravelphp team! laravel.com/team
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    James Brooks
    Laravel
    @jbrooksuk
    Jan 18, 2021
    I just finished deploying the first version of my @laravelphp Artisan cheatsheet! Let me know what you think 😅
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    Laravel 13.x Artisan Cheatsheet - artisan.page
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    James Brooks
    Laravel
    @jbrooksuk
    May 13, 2024
    I’m stoked to share that I’ve been promoted to Engineering Team Lead at @laravelphp 🎉 A huge, huge thank you to @taylorotwell, @theandreval and the team for supporting me as I move into this role! ❤️#LaravelForever
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    James Brooks
    Laravel
    @jbrooksuk
    Nov 2, 2022
    Unpopular opinion: the node.js ecosystem sucks.
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    James Brooks
    Laravel
    @jbrooksuk
    Feb 3, 2022
    Laravel Valet is one of the best pieces of software I have installed. Automatic sites from directories, "valet secure" and I now have SSL on the site too. Ugh. So good.
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    James Brooks
    Laravel
    @jbrooksuk
    Jul 12, 2022
    Today I made a PR to @laravelphp for a new "about" command. It also includes an API for pushing additional data, so applications and packages can display their own information. github.com/laravel/framew…
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    James Brooks
    Laravel
    @jbrooksuk
    Jun 7, 2021
    Did you know that in PHP 7.4, the numeric literal separator was added? This means you can separate numbers with an underscore. These two numbers are equal, but the second is much easier to parse. wiki.php.net/rfc/numeric_li…
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    James Brooks
    Laravel
    @jbrooksuk
    Mar 11, 2022
    My biggest PHP request is a "return if"
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    James Brooks
    Laravel
    @jbrooksuk
    Jun 10, 2021
    Here's how you can use PHP's spread operator to merge two arrays together. Technically this will be faster than array_merge too! Spreads also support anything implementing Traversable.
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    James Brooks
    Laravel
    @jbrooksuk
    Jun 12, 2025
    I love Laravel 🫶
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    James Brooks
    Laravel
    @jbrooksuk
    Oct 17, 2022
    Did you know you can add conditional validation rules in @laravelphp form requests? This makes validation very dynamic! 🤩
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    James Brooks
    Laravel
    @jbrooksuk
    Apr 11, 2024
    Today I, and most of the Laravel team learnt this.
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    Newton Job
    @_newtonjob
    Apr 11, 2024
    I love how easy it is to combine two local scopes with the "OR" clause using #Eloquent's `orWhere` magic property 🔥 #Laravel
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    James Brooks
    Laravel
    @jbrooksuk
    Feb 6, 2023
    Today I PR'd a feature to Laravel that I've been wanting for a while now... github.com/laravel/framew…
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    James Brooks
    Laravel
    @jbrooksuk
    Jan 7, 2022
    The @laravelphp framework is the result of 2,701 people working together. But, it's also more than that. It's the community of thousands and thousands of people, the teachers, the package developers and everyone else in between.
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