Programming How to format date with accessors and mutators in laravel 5.2 Change date format with accessors and mutators in Laravel 5.2 Dealing with a date can be stressful at times. Date field in MySQL Database has a default format of YYYY-MM-DD. And bootstrap datepicker gives a date format of in DD/MM/YYYY. How do I handle it properly in Laravel? In this post, we will use accessors and mutators to format date. […] Written by Clemence Ayekple July 1, 2016September 24, 2018
Career Education Recommended These 10 things on your cv could be the reason you are not getting hired Curriculum vitae (CV) is a Latin expression which can be loosely translated as [the] course of [my] life. In current usage, curriculum is less marked as a foreign loanword. Traditionally the word vitae is rendered in English using the ligature æ, hence vitæ, although this convention is less common in contemporary practice. The plural of curriculum […] Written by Allan Philip Barku June 23, 2016November 21, 2020
Inspiration Why I think new year resolution has become a cliché We are in the sixth month of the year 2016, and it seems most of us are already faltering on our new year resolutions. Others have even given up on theirs. Slowly we have crawled back to our old habits like a mother tortoise back to the sea after laying it eggs at the shore. […] Written by Desmond Kwame Paku June 22, 2016September 23, 2018
Inspiration 26 Lessons from my 26 Years Journey 26 Lessons in 26 Years I am 26 years today and I am grateful for this gift of life. When I wake up 4 am this morning reflecting the back pages of my autobiography and I realize how long I have been around. It has not been an easy journey but God has been faithful. […] Written by Desmond Kwame Paku April 14, 2016August 5, 2018
Inspiration Captives of Our Past Glories; Imprisoned by Our “past tense” Successes – Part Three Achievements and Fond Memories We all once a while, look back at those good times, remember those achievements and fond memories, smile at them and move on. This is normal and is really soothing most times because it gives us a perspective on how far we have come and the hope that there are better […] Written by Desmond Kwame Paku March 28, 2016August 5, 2018
Inspiration The unforeseen in an unexpected circumstance I watched a movie recently and in a very interesting scene involving wrestlers, a thin weakling stepped forward to challenge an extremely fat and bulky man. The results were obvious from their physical appearance; a strong, bulky man against a thin weakling. Well, the wrestling started and in just a few seconds, the thin man […] Written by Sefakor Agbenyegah March 17, 2016August 16, 2018
Inspiration The engine of a person Don’t mind the body; mind the engine There is a popular phrase that goes like this: ‘don’t mind the body; mind the engine’. It refers to a car and literally means that no matter what dilapidated state a car may be in, so far as the engine is in a proper state, it is good […] Written by Sefakor Agbenyegah March 2, 2016August 21, 2018
Files Technology How to Shrink Huge pdf files via Terminal on Ubuntu 3 Ways of Compressing a PDF file via the Terminal PDF (Portable Document Format) is a file format for capturing and sending electronic documents in exactly the intended format. Ever wanted to reduce the size of that big pdf file you have to send and you do not have the bandwidth to use online pdf compressors like Smallpdf (personal […] Written by Allan Philip Barku March 1, 2016August 17, 2018
Inspiration Captives of Our Past Failures: Imprisoned by Our Bad Experiences – Part Two Bad Experiences The second groups of captives are the ones living in prisons of self-deprecation due to their past failures. I can do this but as for this one I wouldn’t dare, I tried ones it did not work. They have the potential to be the best as best as they can but, because of […] Written by Desmond Kwame Paku February 24, 2016December 17, 2018
Inspiration Captives in A Free World: Imprisoned by Our Relationships – Part One A Free World I find this statement ironic, that we are living in a free world but there are still captives. The tragedy is the fact that, some of these captives are not even conscious of the captivity the found themselves. Most people were captured and imprisoned in walls built by our mind, family, society and […] Written by Desmond Kwame Paku February 23, 2016August 2, 2018
