Posts by Chris Willerton 21st May 2020 Communicating with empathy Chris takes a look at how we communicate using empathy. Now more than ever, we must have a good understanding of each other if we are all to succeed. 6th April 2020 ISO 27001: A path to better information security A look at ISO 27001 and information security; how it can be (continuously) improved and how we can place it right at the centre of an organisation to give it the appropriate emphasis. 11th February 2019 Our software engineering principles We’ve always followed a set of software engineering principles here at Engage, but we thought it was time to share these so that everyone can see our approach to technical problem solving. 3rd April 2017 Don’t repeat yourself, use the Laravel service container! Let’s run through how you can bind something to the Laravel service container and pull it out in a pre-configured state later in your application. 4th May 2016 Custom blade directives in Laravel 5 Anyone who uses Laravel as a framework day to day already knows how great Laravel’s blade syntax is, and it’s been made even more powerful recently with Laravel 5 due to the addition of custom blade directives. 22nd April 2015 CSRF Protection with Ajax and Laravel Chris takes a look at protecting applications using Ajax and Laravel.