

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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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.
Show Links
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.
Show Links
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.
Show Links
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

Aug 14, 2017 • 32min
Laracon US 2017 wrap, Laravel Horizon, and new versions galore
Jake and Michael return after a few weeks' hiatus to recap Laracon US 2017, the big reveal of Laravel Horizon, and catch up on the latest framework news.
You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links.
Show Links
Ziggy: A package for named Laravel routes in JavaScript
Laravel 5.5 Responsable interface for responses
Pull Request
Introducing Laravel Horizon
Watch the Laracon US keynote by Taylor Otwell
Laravel Valet v2.0.5 is released
Laravel Homestead Version 6 released
Switching PHP versions with Laravel Valet
Laravel v5.4.29 is released with two new Blade directives
Laravel v5.4.32 is released with a security fix for image uploads
S3 temporary URL signing
Laravel 5.5 pivot casting

Jul 18, 2017 • 1h 3min
Laracon Sessions with Taylor Otwell, Jeffrey Way, Matt Stauffer, and Adam Wathan
In the final Laracon Sessions episode for 2017, Jake and Michael are joined by Taylor Otwell, Jeffrey Way, Matt Stauffer, and Adam Wathan to get the final word on the upcoming Laracon US conference in New York City.
You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links.
Guest Starring
Taylor Otwell
Jeffrey Way
Matt Stauffer
Adam Wathan
Show Links
Beau Simensen - Mixcloud
Chainable jobs
Custom validation rules
RefreshDatabase trait
Custom Blade if statements
Trusted Proxy
Request::validate()
migrate:fresh command
Support for Responsable objects
Deep Work
Mildly Alarming Podcast - It's not Dopayours, it's dopamine
Top of the Rock
Tom's Restaurant
Laravel Forge
Envoyer
Laracasts
Tighten Co.
Laravel Up and Running
Test Driven Laravel
KiteTail - Building KiteTail

Jul 4, 2017 • 52min
Laracon Sessions with Michele and Mathias Hansen
In the penultimate Laracon Session, Jake and Michael are joined by husband and wife tag-team speakers Michele and Mathias Hansen to talk about launching and scaling a side project, along with your regular dose of Laravel framework and community news.
You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links.
Guest Starring
Michele Hansen
Mathias Hansen
Show links
Geocodio
The Motley Fool
VideoBlocks
Jobs to be Done
6 product books I wish I'd read sooner
When coffee and kale compete
Pixelbug
Laracon US live stream tickets on sale
Laravel 5.4.28 is released
array_random helper
unless Collection method
fresh Eloquent Collection method
BelongsTo default return
Escape values in @yield
DD and Dump is coming to Collections in Laravel 5.5
Spatie's Collection macros
PSA: Carbon subMonth / addMonth behaviour
useMonthsOverflow to change default
Laravel.io launches its next version
Tweetsnippet - a curated list of tips and tricks posted on Twitter by Casper Sørensen

Jun 20, 2017 • 49min
Laracon Sessions with Laura Elizabeth
Jake and Michael are joined by designer, product maker, and Laravel community newcomer Laura Elizabeth as we get ever-closer to Laracon 2017, in addition to your regular dose of Laravel framework and community news.
You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links.
Guest Starring: Laura Elizabeth
Show links
Design Academy
Client Portal
Laravel 5.4.25
Laravel 5.4.26
Laravel 5.4.27
Laravel package auto-discovery
Take a deep dive into the Laravel core
Diving Laravel by Mohamed Said
Learn how to improve the performance of your Laravel app with Performant Laravel
Performant Laravel by Chris Fidao
Bring Laravel collections to JavaScript with collect.js
Invisible reCAPTCHA integration with Laravel
Partyline - A package to print to the Artisan console from anywhere

Jun 6, 2017 • 50min
Laracon Sessions with Jack McDade
In Laracon Sessions Episode Three, Jake and Michael are joined by Jack McDade to discuss his surely-80s themed talk, as well as your regular dose of Laravel framework and community news.
You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links.
Guest Starring: Jack McDade
Show links
Statamic
Wilderborn
ContestKit
Halt and Catch Fire
Rails for Zombies
Wizards, Lawnmowers, and Hovercrafts
Deep Work
Become a SuperLearner
Hot Rod "quiet place" dance scene
Laravel 5.4.24 is now released
Gate resources
Route isName
Request routeIs - formerly isRouteName
Filesystem hashing
Model::refresh
str_after helper
Router apiResource
Customer Validator rules in Laravel 5.5 - Taylor's blog post
Whoops is coming back in Laravel 5.5
Zttp is a wrapper around Guzzle for simplifying common use cases

May 23, 2017 • 26min
Laracon Sessions with Tom Schlick
In Laracon Sessions Episode Two, Jake and Michael are joined by Tom Schlick to discuss his talk on multi-tenancy in Laravel, as well as your regular dose of Laravel framework and community news.
You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links.
Guest Starring: Tom Schlick
Show links
Laravel throw_if and throw_unless helpers
Laravel 5.4.22 released and includes a security fix
Laravel 5.4.22 release notes
Eloquent query builder 'make' method
Allow Eloquent 'find' method to support Arrayable arguments
The Road to Laracon US