

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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Paul Redmond
Announcing Docker for PHP Developers
Writing APIs with Lumen
My simple approach to getting started with Docker and PHP

Jan 23, 2018 • 37min
Balloons and double encoding and Bootstrap, Oh Dear!
Jake and Michael discuss Laracon announcements, new framework features, model caching, and more.
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Helium balloons and ceiling fans
Laracon Online
Laracon US 2018 announces speaker Robert C Martin
Laracon AU
Laravel 5.5.29 released
BladeCompiler::doubleEncode()
Allow StudlyCase and snake_case migration names
Send status code 500 when using dd()
Add s3:// protocol to URL validation
Laravel model caching
Oh Dear! Website and SSL monitoring application is now live
Visual Studio Code for PHP Developers
My VS Code Setup by Caleb Porzio
Bootstrap 4 stable released, and what to expect next
Install Microsoft SQL drivers for PHP 7 in Docker
T25

Jan 9, 2018 • 47min
Laravel releases, Laracon Online, and soft edges
Jake and Michael return for 2018 and catch up on several framework releases from the break, discuss the upcoming Laracon Online, and community projects from Chris Fidao and Steve Schoger.
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Laravel 5.5.23 released
Collection::firstWhere()
Laravel 5.5.25 released
Added support for Flysystem caching (Caching example from Jason Varga)
Added support for year data type
Added support for setting Whoops debug editor
Open files in an editor
Laravel 5.5.27 released
Support passing collections to Collection::except (5.5.26)
Made Command class macroable (5.5.26)
Allow chaining of Request::merge() calls (5.5.27)
Performance improvements of Model::getTable() reverted (5.5.27)
Laravel 5.5.28 released
Added AnonymousNotifiable::notifyNow() method
Added EventFake::assertDispatchedTimes() method
Chrome 63 now forces .dev domains to HTTPS
Laracon Online
Bootstrap 4 final beta released
Bootstrap 4 Laravel preset for Laravel 5.5
Free Video Course: Scaling your Laravel applications on Forge
Scaling Forge
Introducing Heroicons UI - be notified when more icons are added
Disneyland Adventures

Dec 5, 2017 • 19min
A short, sharp, and shiny holiday send off
Jake and Michael get together one last time for 2017 to bring you the latest news from around the Laravel Community.
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Laravel 5.5.22 released
response() and download() methods in Filesystem
Complete temporary table support
Laracon US 2018 is announced
A package for Laravel Blade extension classes
Laravel Advent calendar
Version your apps with Laravel Version by Antonio Ribeiro
Laratalks Kuala Lumpur
Focus activation codes
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Nov 21, 2017 • 57min
Presets, Editors, and Laracon 2018
Jake and Michael take on episode 50 talking about survey results, frontend presets, code editors, Laracon in 2018, and a whole lot more.
Show Links
2017 Laravel survey results
Laravel Frontend Presets
A Tailwind CSS preset for Laravel 5.5
Bootstrap 4 Laravel preset for Laravel 5.5
Laracasts: Free Visual Studio Code course
Visual Studio Announces Live Share
Atom Teletype - Code collaboration in realtime
Laravel v5.5.20 released
assertValidationErrors and assertJsonCount
allOnQueue and allOnConnection
Laravel v5.5.21 released
Learn how to write a Vue JS wrapper component
Focus App
Laracon US 2018 website coming Cyber Monday
Laracon AU 2018
Manage model revisions with ease with Odin
Using fetch with Laravel by Jerguš Lejko
Backup multiple sites and frameworks with Laravel Backup by Tim MacDonald
Extending Laravel's Migration Command by Ankit Pokhrel
Larvel Lisbon S01E01

Nov 7, 2017 • 52min
Tailwinds, Vessels, and Leisure
Jake and Michael discuss new Laravel 5.5 features, community projects, and news and packages from the Laravel community.
Show Links
Laracon Online 2018
New route methods introduced in Laravel 5.5
Tailwind CSS
Beard
Vessel is a lightweight Docker environment for Laravel
Reload your Tinker session with Tinx
Continuous Testing Dashboard for Laravel
Bootstrap Laravel 5 packages with Bootpack
Collision is an error handler framework for console applications
Email verification with Laravel 5.5
How to install Laravel on a cPanel server
How to install Laravel on a DirectAdmin server
Laravel Watchable package
Taylor will do a video Q&A at your meetup
F-Bar

Oct 24, 2017 • 39min
Style guides, testing Vue, and Cookies
Jake and Michael talk about a great number of new things from the Vue camp, talk a bit about handling form validation, changes in the Laravel framework, and rapid-fire through some community links.
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VueJS 2.5 released
Vue.js Tutorial: From jQuery to Vue.js
Object-Oriented Forms
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Form backend validation
The official unit testing utility library for Vue.js is now available
Testing Vue
Vue.js official style guide is here!
Laravel v5.5.15
Added option to make new model a pivot model
Added secure and HTTP only params to cookie helper
Optimize your application with Laravel Page Speed
Protect your webhooks with Laravel Shield
Laravel IO Redesign Concept
Refactoring UI