Author: Leonid Mamchenkov

laravolt/avatar – plug-n-play PHP library for quick dynamic avatars

laravolt/avatar is a PHP library that helps to avoid those old and boring anonymous face pictures for users who haven’t uploaded or configured their avatar in your application.  With library you can use any string – name, email, initials, or anything else you fancy – to generate a dynamic avatar with random color and letters.

php-jsonq – a simple, elegant PHP package to query over any type of JSON data

php-jsonq provides an easy, yet powerful way to build queries for any JSON data (or PHP data structures for that matter, which are a step away).  This has a variety of useful applications – data migration, API response filtering, complex configurations manipulation, and so on, and so forth.

Why you should stop using product roadmaps and try GIST Planning

“Why you should stop using product roadmaps and try GIST Planning” is an interesting look at project management.  While I don’t GIST is easily implementable in most companies, mostly due to the change resistance, familiarity and tools, I still think it’s an interesting approach that deserves attention.