Populate dropdown list from database with Laravel

While building admin/CMS or just a form on your site you might need to build a dropdown (select) list with values read from database. It is very elegant to do this with Laravel’s Eloquent. (For the sake of this post let’s assume that you want to read values from the database and not from some array

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Google Sync Turned Off on my Android! How do I turn on Google Sync?

Yesterday I noticed that all my Google services were not being synced on my Nexus 7 (Android 4.2.2) anymore. Emails were not automatically downloaded, Calendar,Chrome, contacts etc were not updating. On top of that I was getting weird “Sync was unsuccessful” (or something like that) messages on my PC’s browser. Sure enough – sync was

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Enable Gmail Tabs – Tabbed Inbox

Gmail’s inbox Tabs are a very cool new Gmail feature that brings order to your inbox.

To enable it, click the gears button and try to find “Configure inbox”.

Click on “Configure inbox”, select the tabs that you wish to enable,click Save and you can now use the

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ReflectionException: Class SomeClass does not exist – Laravel 4

Note: This post was written while Laravel 4 was still in beta.

When you add a new class (controller) in Laravel 4 you will most probably get

ReflectionException: Class SomeClass does not exist

SomeClass is of course the name of your new class.

Why does this happen? The file/controller is there, the class is there

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Always displays battery icon in windows 7 system tray

How to move an icon (in my case I wanted to move battery icon) from that “hidden” system tray space so it will always be visible in system tray?

Simple, just click on the up arrow to display that “hidden” system tray area, grab the icon (hold the left mouse button) you would like to

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