Laravel is great framework and I quite enjoy how it’s structured and how it works. In version 4 it was migrated from bundles to using Composer for dependency injection which is great and fits well in my daily routine on building apps also follows standards promoted by the PHP community in general.
In my application I was planning to add MongoDB support as first I’d like to improve the performance and second my data structure is perfect for this purpose, furthermore I want to improve my NoSQL skillset.
In this article I’ll describe the steps that I followed on installing the MongoDB provider, the problems that I’ve faced and final solutions and small tricks I used to make all work. Read more ›
I use BASH aliases extensively throughout my DEV environments and it saves me a lot of time. One specific I use is “cdv” that’s shorthand for CD to VirtualHosts which in most cases could be as simple as /var/www or in some cases could be very long path, especially on shared DEV environments like /var/www/dev/vhosts/mylongusername. 
If you are running your site on a shared hosting and you have multiple domain installed as subdirectories the things could go out of hand really fast. In my specific case I have multiple installs of different CMS and one main domain running from “root” directory. What I wanted was to be able to run all of my domain in separate sub folders. Here is the solution: