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💡 "What if I was to build it now?" - Rethinking Development in the Age of AI and Low-Code Tools 🚀 I've been developing for 25 years, building solutions for companies like Pfizer down to one-person startups. A lot has changed since the days I could just reach for Laravel for every web project. Today, with breakthroughs in AI and tools like Supermavin, ChatGPT, N8N.io, and more, I've had to step b...

💡 "What if I was to build it now?" - Rethinking Development in the Age of AI and Low-Code Tools 🚀 I've been developing for 25 years, building solutions for companies like Pfizer down to one-person startups. A lot has changed since the days I could just reach for Laravel for every web project. Today, with breakthroughs in AI and tools like Supermavin, ChatGPT, N8N.io, and more, I've had to step b...

From the "PHP and LLMs" book, “Agnostic” that Notebook LM will talk about the "Pasted Notes" as the call it. Summary This chapter will be about agnostic tools. I've already covered tools in the Tools Overview chapter and agnostic drivers in the Agnostic Driver chapter. However, I want to examine how these work and why it is important to use an agnostic system. By the end of this chapter, you will...

From the "PHP and LLMs" book, “Standards Checking” that Notebook LM will talk about. This is a deceiving title since this pattern can be use for so many other workflows like Grant Writing, RFP Proposals, Marketing Voice, Related Content Checking an more! 👉🏻 Buy the book "PHP and LLMs - the practical guide" https://bit.ly/php_llms 👉🏻 Ai Automation Consulting https://dailyai.studio 👉🏻 Join the...

Here is the summary of the Chapter from NoteBookLM Marketing Assistant and Other Automations This excerpt from the book "marketing_assistant.md" describes how to build an AI-powered marketing assistant using Laravel, an open-source PHP framework, and n8n.io, an automation tool for connecting services. The book focuses on concepts rather than code, and the author uses the example of a marketing cam...

Today, we're diving into the world of AI-powered chat systems using OpenAI's Assistant API. We'll explore how PHP developers can leverage this technology to create context-rich conversations, manage threads, and handle file uploads. From setting up an AI assistant to implementing real-time updates, we'll cover the key steps to build a sophisticated chat application that can understand and respond...

This is out of the book "PHP and LLMs". https://bit.ly/php_llms Scraping the web for data can feel like wrestling with a tangled mess of HTML. But what if you could skip the wrestling match and have a powerful AI assistant do the heavy lifting for you? On today's episode, we're exploring how Large Language Models are transforming the web scraping game. We'll unpack how LLMs, combined with cleverly...

This is the start of 10 part series as the "PHP and LLMs" book uses NotebookLm to create discussions around each chapter. These episodes are created using https://notebooklm.google.com/ 🎉 Buy the book now it is 40% done https://bit.ly/php_llms 📰 Join the news letter https://sundance-solutions.mailcoach.app/php-and-llms Tools Overview Enhancing LLM Capabilities - Chapter 7 This is one of the most...

This is the start of 10 part series as the "PHP and LLMs" book uses NotebookLm to create discussions around each chapter. These episodes are created using https://notebooklm.google.com/ 🎉 Buy the book now it is 40% done https://bit.ly/php_llms 📰 Join the news letter https://sundance-solutions.mailcoach.app/php-and-llms Why LLMs - Chapter 2 Eight years ago, I did a Machine Learning and PHP video...

This is the start of 10 part series as the "PHP and LLMs" book uses NotebookLm to create discussions around each chapter. These episodes are created using https://notebooklm.google.com/ 🎉 Buy the book now it is 40% done https://bit.ly/php_llms 📰 Join the news letter https://sundance-solutions.mailcoach.app/php-and-llms Prompting Overview - Chapter 5 Prompting is the key to unlocking the power of...

This is the start of 10 part series as the "PHP and LLMs" book uses NotebookLm to create discussions around each chapter. These episodes are created using https://notebooklm.google.com/ 🎉 Buy the book now it is 40% done https://bit.ly/php_llms 📰 Join the news letter https://sundance-solutions.mailcoach.app/php-and-llms Prompting Overview - Chapter 5 Prompting is the key to unlocking the power of...

You can read the article here https://alnutile.medium.com/small-teams-should-focus-on-dev-not-ops-63d7938a314a   Enjoy! 👉🏻 Ai Automation Consulting https://dailyai.studio 👉🏻 Join the NewsLetter https://videos.dailyai.studio/ 👉🏻 Buy the book "PHP and LLMs - the practical guide" https://bit.ly/php_llms  

As a freelance developer, my relationship with clients extends far beyond coding. The engagement is educational, helping clients become efficient product owners, understand the value of iterative development, and adopt a proactive approach to Quality Assurance (QA). Also on my end making sure I really understand their domain, their goals and help break down those goals into realistic achievable fe...

Author: Alfred Nutile Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: https://medium.com/@alnutile/we-code-in-the-context-of-our-quoting-dab391fe0881#.6a1k99bu1 Whether you are working Waterfall, or Agile we still need to quote out the time it will take for new features . We still need to give the product owners, or the people with the money, a sense of timing. And it is this skill or lack thereof that dr...

Author: John Ferguson Smart Author: Jan Molak Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: http://johnfergusonsmart.com/five-stages-bdd-agile-adoption/ Other links https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ShuHaRi.html 👉🏻 Ai Automation Consulting https://dailyai.studio 👉🏻 Join the NewsLetter https://videos.dailyai.studio/ 👉🏻 Buy the book "PHP and LLMs - the practical guide" https://bit.ly/php_llms  

Author: Jesse Schutt Read By: Jack Fruh Original Source: http://zaengle.com/blog/diving-in-to-a-laravel-audit Recently the Zaengle team was asked to look over an existing Laravel application and give a review of the overall state of the code. We were to act as an independent third party, between a new studio who had inherited the codebase, and the client, who was anticipating launching the product...

Author: David Heinemeier Hansson Read By: Ryan MacAllan Original Source: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2188-theres-no-room-for-the-idea-guy Startups need people able and willing of doing the actual work. They need programmers, designers, and eventually folks to do marketing, support, and more. What they don’t need, though, is someone who’s just going to be The Idea Guy. 👉🏻 Ai Automation Consult...

Author: Alfred Nutile Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: https://alfrednutile.info/posts/177 This document will cover how to use a Behat specific API to setup a site for testing. What this includes is setting up a Scenario so that it has the data you need to run a test. This makes it possible not to rely on Seed data for this. This will allow us to run behat tests from remote machines as well...

Author: Matthew Machuga Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: http://matthewmachuga.com/blog/2015/activerecord-and-the-beauty-lost-in-translation.html Sometime in 2014, PHP-land started to debate whether Active Record was a tolerable ORM pattern, and whether one should use Active Record or Data Mapper ORMs. In PHP, this comes down to something like Laravel’s Eloquent ORM as an Active Record impl...

Author: Alfred Nutile Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: https://alfrednutile.info/posts/175 We are working on using FeatureFlags or Toggles in our applications. For one we are aiming to do all our work on mainline branch at all times so this would be a key coding discipline to use FeatureFlags so we can hide a feature in progress knowing it will not interfere with the application. For exampl...

Author: Lorna Jane Mitchell Read By: Lorna Jane Mitchell Original Source: http://www.lornajane.net/posts/2015/git-pull-causes-a-merge If you type git pull and expect a fast-forward update, but get a merge instead, don't panic! This usually happens when we're collaborating on a branch with other people, and we've made changes on our local version of a branch, and someone else (or the other you, if...

Author: Lorna Jane Mitchell Read By: Lorna Jane Mitchell Original Source: http://www.lornajane.net/posts/2014/using-composer-without-gitignoring Recent additions to the joind.in API have introduced some new dependencies so we decided we'd start using Composer to manage these - but we don't want to run composer unsupervised. I'm sure this will bring the rain of "just run composer install, it's...

Author: David Heinemeier Hansson Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2014/tdd-is-dead-long-live-testing.html It didn't start out like that. When I first discovered TDD, it was like a courteous invitation to a better world of writing software. A mind hack to get you going with the practice of testing where no testing had happened before. It opened my eyes to t...

Author: Alfred Nutile Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: https://alfrednutile.info/posts/160 BETA: This is a Code Heavy Read :) Not all apps need to be an SPA (Single Page Application). Sure they have their place but in most cases the task might benefit from just a Blade template and Angular widget. This saves you from having to write an angular route which can be a tedious duplication of wor...

Author: Grant Ammons Read By: Alfred Nutile Original Source: https://medium.com/cto-school/ditching-scrum-for-kanban-the-best-decision-we-ve-made-as-a-team-cd1167014a6f#.8hh5rddu0 The following is a story about how we matured as an engineering team. We went from an ad-hoc process to Scrum, and used Scrum for a whole year. Scrum leveled us up as a team in terms of structure and process. But it caus...