Today, as I deployed my Laravel application, I received an email from my client mentioning that the basic authentication wasn’t working on the production server. I tested promptly and indeed it wasn’t. This was really strange for me as locally all was well. I got stuck at the problem for quite sometime. Searching on Google made me realize that a lot of people have been facing the same conundrum. But finally as usual, I found out the solution not too late.
Category: Web Development
Change Active State of Links in Sticky Navigation on Scroll
Based on the design decisions made by you on your website (or webapp), you might probably end up having a sticky navigation, one that keeps on showing up in the view port as you scroll up or down. In such a situation, it’s a common desire to have the links in the navigation bar be scrollbar-aware and change their active state as the user scrolls through the page. Let’s see how to do this.
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Laravel Render a View and Store the Contents in a Variable
Sometimes one may want to load a View with some PHP data passed to it and store it in a variable inside the Controller’s action. This rendered view data might be later passed to another view which is finally loaded and dumped to the user’s screen.
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Send Newsletters or Email Marketing Campaigns via Amazon SES with Sendy (PHP app) for Cheap (a Review)
Email newsletters is one of the most effective way to execute your marketing campaigns by reaching out directly to your subscribers who are basically your customers, readers, fans/followers or prospects. But the issue that many of us face is that, as the subscriber base grows or we want to send emails more frequently, the entire process can get a bit pricey when using services like Mailchimp, Campaign Monitor, Aweber, Signal, Constant Contact, GetResponse, LoopFuse, Sales-Push, Mad Mimi, Campaigner, Vertical Response, Benchmark Email, iContact, JangoMail, Boomerang and Ezine Director – unless our requirements can be fulfilled by their free plans.
Solve Your Game Audio Problems on iOS and Android with Web Audio API
So you made your game or some other app that has multiple sound effects produced by several audio files. It works great on your desktop, laptop, etc. browsers but then you realize that you have some major issues with multiple sounds (or even single) on mobile and tablet platforms like iOS and android browsers. Sad!
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Fixing HTML5 Audio Problems in iOS and Android Mobile Browsers to Overcome the Limitations
In one of my earlier posts I discussed some of the issues (or limitations) with HTML5 audio support in iOS and Android mobile and tablet platforms. In this article I am going to try to take a look at some of the ways we can overcome those limitations and quirks.
HTML5 Audio Behaviour and Support in iOS and Android
Few months back I was developing an HTML5 game where I really struggled with adding and playing the different sound/audio effects properly across different browsers and platforms, especially in mobiles and tablets. As I made some progress, I decided to document the support and behaviour of HTML5 Audio in mobile environments – iOS and Android – based on my trials.
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