

Laravel News Podcast
Jacob Bennett and Michael Dyrynda
The Laravel News Podcast brings you all the latest news and events related to the Laravel PHP Framework
Episodes
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May 22, 2018 • 49min
The latest Laravel releases, Editors, package development, and community packages
Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community.
Show links:
Sublime Text 3.1 is released
Laravel 5.6.20 released
Laravel 5.6.22 and 5.6.21 released
Collection::loadMissing()
Redis connection contract
Developing Laravel packages with local Composer dependencies
Bash alias: composer-link
Introducing View components in Laravel, an alternative to view composers
Add user email confirmation to your Laravel projects
Laravel Schemaless attributes package
Laravel credentials package for encrypted application secrets
Laravel + Vue.js AdminPanel generator
Laravel News community links
Community events:
Laravel Serbia
Laravel Conf Taiwan 2018
Laravel Live UK
Laracon EU
Laracon US
Laracon AU

May 9, 2018 • 58min
Caching, bots, and async programming
Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community, which this week featured a lot of caching.
Show links:
Laravel page cache for lightning fast page loads
Bouncer
Building a Chatbot with Laravel and BotMan
Cachet - the open source status page system
Laravel 5.6.17 released
Code Thoughts
Laravel 5.6.18 released
Laravel 5.6.19 released
What's new in Laravel 5.6
VuePress: A Vue-powered static site generator
Cascading soft deletes with Laravel 5
Running the Laravel scheduler and queue with Docker
HTTP cache packages for Laravel
Microweber website builder
Speed up Laravel on top of Swoole

Apr 17, 2018 • 38min
Releases, live events, and eloquent eloquent
Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community.
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Laravel 5.6.16 released
Composer 1.6.4 is released with a security fix
Bootstrap 4.1 released
Bootstrap 4 premium themes
Learn how to use Tailwind CSS with an interactive cheat sheet
Laravel route tips to improve your routing
Using the Laravel optional helper and the new optional closure
Colin DeCarlo - Keeping Eloquent Eloquent
20 Laravel Eloquent tips and tricks
20 Eloquent tricks - more by Jarek Tkaczyk
#30DaysWithEloquent
Laravel Live UK
Laravel Portugal
Abstracting request keys
HomeBridge
Goon of Fortune

Apr 3, 2018 • 50min
Laravel releases, cookbooks, and signed routes
Jake and Michael return to discuss the latest Laravel releases, community projects, and upcoming changes.
Show links
Laravel News Telegram channel
Laravel 5.6.12 released
Support for signed routes
fromSub, fromRaw query builder methods
PHPUnit pretty result printer
Getting started with signed routes in Laravel
Laravel Excel 3.0
The Git client Tower launches its first v3 public beta
Update your Blade templates to use the null coalesce operator
The Vue Cookbook
Sarah Drasner
Laravel 5.6.14 released
view:cahe command
min and max are higher-order proxies
@elseauth and @elseguestBlade directives
Callback support for the optional helper
SessionGuard::logoutOtherDevices method added
SlackMessage::info() method added
Laravel log enhancer package
Graylog
Laravel 5.6.15 and 5.5.40 are released with a security patch

Mar 20, 2018 • 39min
Scaling Laravel, testing Vue components, and model events
Join Jake and Michael as they discuss the latest Laravel releases, Scaling Laravel, testing Vue components, and more.
Thanks to our episode sponsor, Larastream.
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Laravel 5.6.11 is released
Make Carbon not overflow globally
The Scaling Laravel course by Chris Fidao is now live
Testing Vue components with Laravel Dusk
Testing Vue.js components with Edd Yerburgh
Getting started with Laravel model events
LetsEncrypt wildcard SSL certificates are here
How to use Font Awesome 5 SVGs with Laravel Blade
implode.io

Mar 12, 2018 • 33min
Black lungs, Laravel Live, and Pwned passwords
Join Jake and Michael as they bring you the latest news and happenings from around the Laravel community.
Show links
Zoolander's Black Lung
LaravelLive India 2018
How to use Blade component and include aliases
GitHub adds ability to quickly review changed functions in your PHP pull requests
Add a check for Pwned passwords in your Laravel form validation
Laravel 5.6.6 is released
Return null if object property is undefined
Laravel 5.6.7 is released
Laravel 5.6.9 is released
Added support for MySQL's "sound like" operator
Added Collection::whereInstanceOf method
Laravel Forge switches its Two-Factor Authentication
Navigating a new Laravel codebase

Feb 26, 2018 • 41min
Laravel 5.6, Spark 6.0, and framework helpers
Join us for a whirlwind journey through the latest Laravel Framework and Spark releases, as well as community project Larastream, and more.
Show links
Laravel 5.6 is live, here's what's new!
Release notes for 5.6.x
Spark 6.0 is now available
Laravel model caching package: model-caching made easy
Model caching for Laravel on Larastream by Mike Bronner
Larastream - A Laravel live streaming community
5 Laravel helpers to make your life easier

Feb 21, 2018 • 42min
Fugue States, Coding Horror, and LaraTalent with Ian Landsman
Jake and Michael are joined by the Godfather of Laravel, Ian Landsman, to talk all about hiring developers and the latest platform to do so, LaraTalent.
Show links
HelpSpot
Laracon Online
Steve Schoger's design tips
Discourse
Coding Horror
LaraJobs
LaraTalent
Laravel Certification
Logan Noir

Feb 8, 2018 • 17min
Collisions, stimuli, and dynamic rate limiting
Jake and Michael record a show in three parts, with each spending a bit of time broadcasting solo, but as always, bringing you the latest news from the Laravel community.
Show links
Announcing Docker for PHP developers
Laravel 5.6 adds the Collision package for CLI error reporting
Stimulus: A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have
Laravel 5.6 dynamic rate limiting provides per-user request throttling
Laravel 5.5.33 is now released
Beautiful CLI menus for Laravel Artisan commands
Laravel Zero
hemp/presenter
laracasts/Presenter
Presenters in Laravel

Feb 6, 2018 • 38min
Docker for PHP Developers with Paul Redmond
Jake and Michael catch up with Laravel News writer Paul Redmond and discuss all things Docker on the heels of Paul's new book Docker for PHP Developers
Show links
Paul Redmond
Announcing Docker for PHP Developers
Writing APIs with Lumen
My simple approach to getting started with Docker and PHP