Dustin Parham

VirtualBox and Mirracast

Introduction I recently picked up the Surface Pro 3, as it seemed like the perfect travel companion. I purchased the i5 250GB 8GB model, and felt like it would be enough to do everything I need on the go. Added…

Laravel 4 Rest Composer Package on Bitbucket

I've decided to take the project I've been working on and turn it into a laravel 4 composer package. I have made it available to the community via bitbucket and on Packagist. I had originally released a complete Laravel 4…

Building a Laravel 4 RESTful API - Part 3

In the last article in this series we discussed using the Laravel response model, and creating a code library in Laravel. In this article I want to talk about Depedency Injection and how this will help us create version control…

Building a Laravel 4 RESTful API - Part 2

In my first article in this series: “Is your REST API at REST?” we discussed the very basic structure of our REST API. We covered some important foundation concepts, and structure. Hopefully you have played around with this a bit…

Building a Laravel 4 RESTful API - Part 1

Over the last several months I have been building a RESTful API. One of the first challenges I came across was determining the best structure in terms of URI endpoints. The first place I started was doing some research on…