Practical articles on Laravel, PHP, and web development from Glen Lockhart at Bright Web Development.
I took over a food safety compliance SaaS that was timing out on reports, leaking memory on imports, and had serious security gaps. Here's what I fixed, and how Paul marked the launch.
Consultants on a health and safety compliance platform were hitting intermittent PDF failures in the field. The root cause was PHP memory configuration. Here's how I found it and fixed it.
Most production PHP incidents are preventable. These are the five checks I run on every platform I take over, and what I typically find.
Manual deployments carry more risk than most teams realise. Here's what I replaced them with, and why automated deployment is one of the highest-value infrastructure improvements you can make.
A PHP platform was generating errors every day for months. Nobody knew because the logs were either too noisy to read or not configured at all. Here's what I found and fixed.
WordPress and Laravel aren't competitors. They solve different problems. Here's a practical framework for knowing which to choose.
