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"There will always be a time that your company will have a dirty stack of email addresses from way back that you need to clean and scrub to see which email addresses are still alive and kicking." - Son Goku 1884

Amazon hosted AWSome Day South East Asia Roadshow 2016 in Manila last September 13, 2016. AWSomeDay is a free, one-day training event that provided a step-by-step introduction to the core AWS services for compute, storage, database and networking. Manila is the second city to host the SEA Roadshow next to Singapore. Bangkok, Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur are next in line.

I was curious if this was possible. I had a scenario that I wanted access an active Laravel session OUTSIDE Laravel.

A simple LDAP authentication module for Laravel using Caffeinated Module and Angular JS Checks if a username is registered in an LDAP collection. Replaces the default Laravel Authentication.    

Here is a small snippet I made to do Networkdays function of MS Excel in Javascript. networkdays = function (startDate,endDate){ var startDate = typeof startDate=='object' ? startDate: new Date (startDate); var endDate = typeof endDate=='object' ? endDate: new Date (endDate); if (endDate > startDate){ var days = Math .ceil((endDate.setHours(23,59,59,999) - startDate.setHours(0,0,0,1)) / (86400 * 1000)); var weeks = Math .floor( Math .ceil((endDate.setHours(23,59,59,999) - startDate.setHours(0,0,0,1)) / (86400 * 1000)) / 7); days = days - (weeks * 2); days = startDate.getDay() - endDate.getDay() > 1 ? days - 2 : days; days = startDate.getDay() == 0 && endDate.getDay() != 6 ? days - 1 : days; days = endDate.getDay() == 6 && startDate.getDay() != 0 ? days - 1 : days; return days; } return null ; }; Usage: networkdays('08/05/2016','08/30/2016'); OR networkdays(new Date(), '08/30/2016'); Acce...

Make Laravel Modular Part 2 - Creating a Simple Caffeinated Module A module should always be reusable and easy to install. That is why we will discuss now how to do just that using Laravel 5.2 and Caffeinated Modules 3.1 This is Part 2 of the Make Laravel Modular Series. Tested on Laravel 5.2.* Caffeinated Modules 3.1.*

Since We have posted how to send SMS using Linux Command line, It will be unfair if we don't do it on Windows OS. So basically We only need a GSM Modem, GAMMU for Windows, and of course Windows 7. My PC has a 64bit architecture, so We will be using the 64bit GAMMU for this tutorial.