Month: July 2015

  • Laravel: Adding A Default Message to a Select Drop Down with Eloquent

    I ran into an issue earlier where I needed to add a default message to a drop down box created through Laravel’s Form builder. The difficulty was that the form select doesn’t allow for a default option. You have to manually add that. If you pre-populate your select with an Eloquent model, you will have…

  • Diablo 3: Testing the PTR for Patch 2.3

    Last night, I gave the latest PTR build for Patch 2.3 a spin. Fortunately, there wasn’t a lot of people on and I successfully got in. That allowed me to complete a good number of bounties to finally start unlocking legendary passives and allow me to play around with a few ideas and experiment with…

  • Why Too Many External Dependencies Is Detrimental to Your Website

    People love the whole idea of mashups with technology in terms of consuming APIs, using plugins or 3rd party widgets. However, as websites scale and grow more complex, depending on these 3rd party dependencies is actually problematic. This blog discusses the issues surrounding the situation.

  • Diablo 3: Patch 2.3 Change to Crowd Control Thoughts

    Patch 2.3 is changing the way crowd control works. In a nutshell, they’re reducing the efficacy of crowd control. There’s a pretty big outcry on the forums from this change and it’s not without reason because it changes a lot of builds and eliminates a core key style in the game. I want to delve…

  • Diablo 3: A Look At the New and Updated Items in Patch 2.3

    The upcoming patch will be introducing more legendaries and updating many older items that may not have affixes or changing the powers of others. This blog will look at them while taking into consideration how they may be used with possible builds and the Kanai’s Cube ability of converting legendary powers into additional passive abilities.

  • How to Properly Use An Ad Blocker

    One of my biggest pet peeves is the return of the popup subscription box. Unlike the old popup/pop-under style Javascript boxes, you cannot easily prevent these from showing up. Usually, they are the incarnation of some desperate content site who will sell your email address to a hundred other soulless spam bots to keep their…