After working on this book for over 4 years with several episodes of writers block, I’ve finally finished my first children’ book: Amir Gets A Raptor now available at Amazon and Barnes and Nobles. What’s the story about? Well.. Today, Amir is getting a raptor! A RAPTOR! Today, Amir is getting a raptor and nobody […] Keep Reading
For 2019, I had a goal to self-publish a comic book using Amazon’s KDP platform. Why? Because I wanted to know how to do it. I heard a lot of great things about the KFP platform and I already had a comic book that I was working on from 2018. I just needed to add […] Keep Reading
It’s crazy! I never met Stan Lee and he does not know who I am. Yet, when I heard that he passed away, I felt like one of my Uncles passed away. Thanks Stan Lee for being such an influence in my life. Thank you for your creativity, charm and . R.I.P Stan “The Man” […] Keep Reading
It’s no secret that the Phoenix continues to be one of Marvel’s most successful characters. That’s why Marvel recently announced that they awill be releaseing Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey with various alternate covers. So far, Marvel has released images of 10 variant covers that will be coming out this December. This includes […] Keep Reading
So, after months of slacking off, I’ve finally created a brand new Miftees cartoon. The reason for the delay is that I’ve been trying to find a way to actually convert Miftees cartoon into actual T-shirts. That means that I can no longer do cartoons about copy-written characters like Wolverine and Batman. But the good […] Keep Reading
As mentioned here, Laravel 5.4 made a change to the default database character set, and it’s now utf8mb4 instead of plain utf8. This switch to utf8mb4 works fine for new applications that are running MySQL v5.7.7 and higher. Howver, anybody running MariaDB or older versions of MySQL might see the following error when trying to […] Keep Reading
I can never understand why major tech companies treat Canada like a third-world country or a country that is millions of miles away from the USA. Even though Canada and the United States have the world’s longest shared border and share the world’s largest bi-lateral trading agreement, many tech goodies available in the USA take […] Keep Reading
I’ve never really liked superman as a comic book character. The problem with superman is that he has no weaknesses, so its hard to root for him because you know that he will always win. I kind of had the idea of what it must be like to be another superhero having to hang out […] Keep Reading
For a recent project, I had to setup basic pagination with Laravel 5.3. Coming form the CakePHP world, it was pretty straightforward and luckily I landed on an awesome blog post by Matt Cutts on pagination in Laravel 5.3. Using most of what I learned from that article, I was able to get pagination up […] Keep Reading
In the last tutorial, we went over how to setup a Laravel Auth application with admin routing, email activations and more. That tutorial was a lot of fun but it was not complete. I said to myself that, in the future, I would add a second part where I would cover login throttling, Google reCAPTCHA […] Keep Reading