

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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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.
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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.
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Guest Starring: Laura Elizabeth
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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.
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Guest Starring: Jack McDade
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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

May 9, 2017 • 49min
Laracon Sessions with Freek Van der Herten
Jake and Michael kick off their series of Laracon Sessions with prolific package maintainer Freek Van der Herten, 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: Freek Van der Herten
Show links
Spatie
Laravel Dashboard
Browsershot
Blender
On open sourcing Blender
Laravel 5.4.20 is released
Higher order tap
Tap, Tap, Tap
Model factory lazy method
Joseph Silber on creating related model factories
Laravel 5.5 returns request data from the validator
Validation as a request macro
Laravel 5.5 gets improvements with default error views
Interactive make command
MarkdownMail - A web app to create Laravel Markdown email themes
Laravel Language Manager
Laravel Nigeria's first meetup had over 150 in attendance
PHP Roundtable - Laravel Edition
The Road to Laracon US

Apr 25, 2017 • 27min
Laravel Macros, frontend presets, and Jigsaw
Jake and Michael recap a relatively quiet period of change on the Laravel landscape, talking about 5.4 maintenance releases, upcoming features in Laravel 5.5, and some contributions from the community.
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Laravel 5.4.18 is now released
Laravel 5.4 changelog
Laravel Collection Macros
Laravel 5.5 frontend presets
Laravel 5.5 custom exception reporting
Formatting exception messages by Ross Tuck
Quickly run PHPUnit tests in PhpStorm
Manage your Laravel sites and servers through Alfred
Alfred App
The static site generator Jigsaw launched v1.0

Apr 12, 2017 • 58min
Interview with Mohamed Said, Laravel's First Employee
Get to know Mohamed Said in his first ever interview where we discuss how he got into programming, being Laravel's first ever employee, what it's like working with Taylor Otwell.
You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links.
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In Laravel 5.5 you can render mailables to the browser
Laravel 5.5 adds support for email themes in mailables
Running Dusk tests on Travis CI and CircleCI
Laravel 5.4.17 is released
Laravel migrate:fresh command
Which Laravel helper do you use for your URLs?
Laravel Forge PHP SDK
Tutorials and packages
Laravel OPcache package
Introduction to seeding data in testing
Using Laravel's cache with query params
Building a user invitation system with Laravel

Mar 28, 2017 • 35min
Forge updates, Ubuntu DNS issues, and PhpStorm 2017.1
Jake and Michael discuss the new Laravel announcements publication, Ubuntu DNS issues, using environment variables in your .env file, and PhpStorm 2017.1
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Show Links
You can now follow Laravel release announcements from Medium
Laravel 5.5 to be the easiest upgrade ever
vendor:publish gets a provider prompt
laracasts/flash
zsh autocompletion for Laravel
LaravelLive India
Laracon Online feedback
Ubuntu DNS issues
Using variables in your .env file
Improved Blade support in PhpStorm 2017.1
What's new in PhpStorm 2017.1
Be awesome in PhpStorm