

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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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.
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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.
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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.
This episode is brought to you by
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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

Oct 10, 2017 • 46min
Vultures, relationsheets, and community contributions
Jake and Michael discuss the correct pronunciation of Vultr, new Laravel releases, testing Vue components with Laravel Dusk, and several community-contributed links.
You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links.
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Laravel News
Laravel 5.5.13 released
Config option for whoops blacklist
Laravel 5.5.14 released
Allow passing a callback to with
Who wants "component objects" in Dusk?
Dusk Improvements: Vue + "Components"
Vultr is now supported on Forge
Vultr Plans & Pricing
Hacktoberfest 2017
Community Links
The Keys are the Key in Laravel multiple field sortBy() by Jeff Madsen
My simple approach to using Docker and PHP by Paul Redmond
Eloquent relationship cheat sheet by Mahmoud Zalt
Pushing polymorphism to the database by Adam Wathan
Eloquent combo methods by Jesse Schutt
Laravel Validator Rules - Credit Card by Darius Matulionis
Luhn algorithm
Laravel password expired: force change password every 30 days by Povilas Korop

Sep 26, 2017 • 22min
Laravel 5.5 releases, dynamic templates, and community surveys
In episode 46 of the Laravel News Podcast, Jake and Michael discuss several new Laravel 5.5 minor releases, dynamic templates, and community surveys.
You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links.
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Laravel 5.5 now includes TrustedProxy
Servers for Hackers by Chris Fidao
Laravel 5.5.3 released
Geo Spatial blueprint methods
Calculating distance using MySQL
Laravel 5.5.5 released with a new route fallback to help customize your 404 views
Laravel 5.5.11 released with a security fix
Laravel 5.6 will remove the Artisan optimize command
Dynamic templates in Laravel Blade with view::first
Take the Laravel 2017 survey
Sublime Text 3.0 is released
The top five Laravel community editor themes
Laravel colour scheme
Laracon EU 2017 talk videos are now on YouTube

Sep 12, 2017 • 33min
Laravel and Lumen 5.5, shareable models, and chat bots
Jake and Michael speak about the latest Laravel and Lumen releases, version 5.5. We also talk about shareable models, Marcel Pociot's Botman chatbot framework, and season three of the Laravel Podcast.
You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links.
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Laravel 5.5 LTS is now released
Lumen 5.5 is released
Laravel Certification Program announced at Laracon EU 2017
Laravel shareable models package
The Laravel Podcast season three - teaser episode after the outro of this episode
BotMan 2.0 PHP chatbot framework
Laravel 5.5 optional, witDefault, and $attribute defaults

Aug 29, 2017 • 25min
Laracon EU, incoming mail, and API resources
In this episode of the Laravel News podcast, Jake and Michael talk about Laracon EU, handling incoming email, bash aliases, and API resources.
Sponsored by Manifold.
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Laracon EU
Inbound email in Laravel
Mailgun
Paul Redmond
New Laravel string helpers in 5.4 and 5.5
Laravel community Bash aliases
All of the Laracon US 2017 Videos are now available
Laracon US 2017 talk recaps
Paul Irish's dotfiles
API resources in Laravel 5.5
TJ Miller's API resources example