5 years ago in Laravel

Changing the database connection on Laravel's Query Builder

While working for a client whose codebase had a lot of legacy code I faced an interesting challenge, I needed to change the database connection on an already instantiated query builder, and I couldn't do it the Laravel way. 

5 years ago in MySQL

Synchronizing PHP and MYSQL timezones

While working on my new project, a personal finance web app I started to encounter weird time issues.