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David Freund


Business Analyst, amateur Developer (PHP, Ruby - in my leisure time and with mixed results)

  1. Babysteps

    While our new little family member was sleeping, I coded a little script that calculates his age in weeks and month and provides an ICS-file with all dates. …


  2. Switch to Jekyll

    Four years ago, the breaking change between Joomla! 1.5 and Joomla! 2.5 led me to WordPress. Since then, the number of pages I felt responsible for decreased until only my personal website was left. …


  3. This ship has sunk!

    Originally this blog post was named „This ship has sailed“ but it took me nearly as long to publish the blog post as coming to the decision described below. So, for me this ship has more than sailed, it sunk and I fear there is little hope it will ever be rediscovered and salvaged. …


  4. New Laravel Gist: Twitter Bootstrap Forms

    Working on a Laravel App refactoring (will post more on this soon), I discovered a challenge: Integrating Twitter Bootstrap Form layouts into Laravel Blade templates. …


  5. Validate multi-entry forms with Laravel

    While working on a new Laravel Application, I needed a solution for multi-entry validation: Users should be able to add one or many persons to an event and the input should still be validated. …


  6. Bye Bye Joomla

    Mit der Migration der ORD-Webseite auf Wordpress, habe ich die letzte von mir verwaltete Joomla!-Instanz aufgegeben (das konkrete Vorgehen schildere ich bei Gelegenheit ). Ein Schritt der mir nicht leichtfiel, immerhin nutzte ich Joomla! seit knapp acht Jahren, hatte diverse Seiten mit Joomla umgesetzt und an Erweiterungen mitgearbeitet. …