Using Lumen and Mandrill to Process Incoming Mail

Have you ever wanted to automate data entry via email? We can use Laravel Lumen and Mandrill to set up a very simple service for parsing incoming mail and saving important data.

Laravel 5 Package Development: The Service Provider

A service provider is a key part of integrating your custom package into a Laravel application. Laravel 5 has more specific requirements for service providers, but it also enables lots of new possibilities for package integration.

Single Table Inheritance

Single Table Inheritance can be a useful tool in certain situations. Let's look at using Single Table Inheritance in a Laravel application and why we might want to do that.

Running Homestead 2.0 on Windows

Homestead version 2 requires more support tooling than version 1, especially on windows. Let's take a look at setting up Homestead 2.0 on a Windows machine for the first time.

Translating Custom Error Message in Laravel Packages

Laravel has great localization tools that make it very easy to translate your application into different languages. How can we adapt those tools to translate custom error messages in a custom package?