Laravel, how to fetch records created within the month?
Today, I found this tip published by @TheLaravelDev on Twitter. It's a handy piece of code that will allow you to fetch the records created between the start and the end of the month using Carbon in...
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Linux Mint partners with Mozilla and makes some changes to the Firefox...
Yesterday, in a post, the Linux Mint project leader, Clément Lefebvre (Clem), announced a partnership with Mozilla. In a small set of FAQs, Clem tried to address most of the immediately raising...
View ArticleSylvio Almada Cabral appointed as AFRINIC Board director
Last year, when AFRINIC was in the spotlight following its bank accounts being frozen due to a litigation, one of its board directors, Mark Elkins, resigned. Mark had been recently elected to occupy...
View ArticleThe Developers Conference 2022 has been postponed
The Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. K. Jagutpal, announced that sanitary restrictions due to COVID-19 have been extended until the 31ˢᵗ March 2022. The restrictions impose a limit of 50 persons...
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Linux User Group of Mauritius meets Luboš Kocman
We had a meetup in the conference room of Flying Dodo, Bagatelle, on Saturday 22 January 2022. Luboš Kocman, the Release Manager for openSUSE, who came to Mauritius on vacation was kind enough to spare...
View ArticleLaravel Jetstream, redirect users after login
While experimenting with Laravel Jetstream recently I was looking at how to redirect users to a specific page after they log in. The authentication part is handled by Laravel Fortify, which is a...
View ArticleCloud Innovation Ltd loses appeal against AFRINIC
The CEO of AFRINIC, Eddy Kayihura, in an email addressed to the Resource Members and the AFRINIC Community, informed that Cloud Innovation Ltd lost its appeal against the ruling that the Judge in...
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Setup MailHog on openSUSE for development on Laravel
MailHog is easy to set up and avoids developers the need to require a full-fledged SMTP server to test mail capabilities in their web application. Using MailHog with Laravel is straight forward as...
View ArticleHow to redirect to a URL with query parameters?
While writing this method I needed it to return to the profile page of a user after successfully creating that user account. I don't know if I am doing it the correct way but one obvious way I thought...
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openSUSE Leap 15.4 Beta testing
I tested the Leap 15.4 Beta GNOME Desktop today on a Lenovo ThinkPad X250. The installation went through without any hiccup and I documented every step of the installation in a Twitter thread.Lenovo...
View ArticleModify content of password reset email in Laravel Jetstream
During my recent experiments with Laravel Jetstream tried to change the content of the emails for the "email verification" and "password reset".The below commands will generate some files which can be...
View ArticleHindi film « The Kashmir Files » has been rejected by the Film Classification...
Hindi film « The Kashmir Files » was released in India on 11 March 2022. The movie was scheduled to release in Mauritius on Tuesday 15 March 2022 at mCine.My wife Shelly and I, we had planned to watch...
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Front-end Coders Meetup
The Front-end Coders organised a meetup on Saturday, 9 April. I was keen to attend this meetup because, like many others, I've been waiting for the meetup-scene to be a normal thing again in...
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A local mirror for openSUSE users in Mauritius 🥳
When I attended the openSUSE Asia Summit in 2019, I asked my friends in Indonesia about their experience in setting up the mirror for the Indonesian users.Earlier this year, when Luboš Kocman visited...
View ArticleAFRINIC – CEO Impromptu Travel & attempt to oust the Board Chair
AFRINIC is currently under a lot of pressure and criticism. Criticism especially, because of the way legal affairs are being handled, issues with regards to the candidate slate of the upcoming Board...
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