Category: Software Development & Tools

This is the working stack: the local environment, the framework, the API, and the tools used to test it. Most of these articles are short on purpose — they answer one question, show the commands, and stop. The environment group sets up XAMPP, virtual hosts, Composer and PostgreSQL on a local machine, which is the base every other article here assumes. The Laravel group runs from first commands and the artisan reference through a three-part build of a REST API for a book-lending system: project and database, then endpoints, then the design decisions behind them. The Postman articles cover calling and testing those endpoints. The rest of the section is the surrounding toolkit — preparing a bootable Ubuntu drive, installing VS Code — plus a few longer builds: a JavaScript shooter in Phaser 3, a 3D printer assembled from parts, and a comparison of open-source CRM systems for small companies. Several of these pages have ranked for years and still bring in most of the blog's search impressions, so they are kept current rather than archived. Where a command or version has aged badly, the article says so instead of pretending otherwise.