@markvaneijk is a Dutch web developer and owner of a creative company @vormkracht10
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As you probably know right now, Laravel 4 is all about using Composer and that's really great. Even more because you can start coding with Laravel even faster than ever before! When you've installed Composer (which you should), it's just one command installing the latest stable version of Laravel:
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An awesome feature that didn't make it to the current documentation of Laravel 4, is caching within Eloquent models. So even caching the database results is done in just a single line of code, for example:
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The all new and much expected launch of Laravel 4 is released for two days now and creator Taylor Otwell has done an amazing job finishing this true piece of art. I think a lot of PHP developers are going to love this and it will be the biggest milestone since the framework has seen daylight. Laravel 3 was great, but its successor is better in every aspect.
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Caching in Laravel can be done in many ways and on many levels of coding. Like for instance you can cache the results that Eloquent returns, to save the load on your database. You can also cache time consuming operations like retrieving data from an external source. These are examples where you cache the result set of your data source and it's a good practice when you want to create a blazing fast website.
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When you're working on a regular basis with Linux web servers, you'll probably have noticed that the main repositories are offering MariaDB as a replacement of MySQL when you're checking for the latest updates. It's a decision the large repositories have made because of the commercial and uncertain direction MySQL is heading, while MariaDB offers itself as a great drop-in replacement.
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Composer in combination with its main repository Packagist is a life saver for every PHP developer. It's an indispensable tool for managing dependencies of your project. Let's get started to get you up and running using Composer in just a few minutes.
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