

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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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
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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.
You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links.
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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
You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links.
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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

Mar 14, 2017 • 30min
Recapping Laracon Online 2017
Jake and Michael recap the inaugural Laracon Online and go over all the latest from the Laravel Community.
You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links.
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Laracon Online 2017 Recap
Eric Meyer at An Event Apart
Q&A with speakers from laracon Online 2017
How I Work by Taylor Otwell
Fidget Cube
No ongoing sales of Laracon Online 2017 tickets/videos
Installing Laravel in a subfolder? Hide your .env file
Testing file uploads with Laravel
Amazon releases a summary of the recent S3 outage
Laravel countries and currencies package
Blade @includeWhen directive
Laravel Forge API
F-Bar by Jan Östlund
Homestead v5 is released

Feb 28, 2017 • 47min
Laravel Shift with Jason McCreary
Jake and Michael speak with Jason McCreary about Laravel Shift, LTS software, and getting git.
Guest Starring: Jason McCreary
You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links.
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YAGNI with Laravel
Laravel Shift
PHP Shift
Shift developer platform
Laravel 5.5 will be LTS
LTS is a trap
Just memorize these commands
Getting Git
Laracon Online conference swag
Blade @prepend directive
Collection 'when' method
Tom Schlick
Stripe Elements
Stripe test tokens
Cloudflare HTTPS leaks
No really, it's ok to be unavailable
Deep Work
Dash
DevDocs (not read the docs, sorry!)

Feb 14, 2017 • 52min
Laracon Online with Ian Landsman
In this episode, Jacob and Michael are joined by Ian Landsman to discuss the exciting new conference venture Laracon Online.
Guest Starring: Ian Landsman
You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links.
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UserScape
HelpSpot
Announcing Laravel
Laracon Online
Webinar
Zoom
Perch CMS
Free .co domain to the first 20,000 attendees
New Forge UI (Laravel Forge)
Find Laravel code and packages with GitHub's new topics feature
Manage custom VM with Laravel Forge
PHP 5.6 is no longer actively supported
Deprecations for PHP 7.2
Homestead now includes MailHog (MailHog)
Using Request::intersect() to simplify partial model updates

Jan 31, 2017 • 58min
Laravel 5.4 with Taylor Otwell
Jake and Michael take the reigns for their very first Laravel News podcast with a bang, tackling all the big new features in the just-released Laravel 5.4, with the help of Taylor Otwell.
Guest Starring: Taylor Otwell
You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links.
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Laravel Passport
Laravel Echo
Laravel Dusk
MailThief
Laravel & Lawns
Laravel Tinker (PR extracting it to its own package)
PsySH
Laracon US is sold out
Specified key to long error
Two new middleware
Automatic facades
Laravel Elixir will be renamed to Laravel Mix
Incompatibilities with Mix and Yarn
Use markdown in your emails (Docs)
Route improvements
JSON-based language files (Docs)
Blade components and slots (Docs)
Higher-order messaging for collections (Docs)
Laravel Dusk is coming (Docs)
Complete Laravel 5.4 changelog

Jan 17, 2017 • 45min
Welcome Jacob Bennett and Michael Dyrynda as the new hosts
Jacob Bennett and Michael Dyrynda will be taking over as hosts of the show going forward and this episode is a farewell from Jack and Eric and introductions of Jake and Michael.
Apologies in advance for the audio on Eric's end. He had his computer set to use the wrong mic.

Oct 18, 2016 • 33min
Laravel 5.3.18, Yarn, Leanpub, and more.
In this episode, we discuss Yarn, Facebook's new JavaScript package manger, the new Laravel Links section, and lots of other random topics.
This is our last podcast episode for 2016 and we will be taking a break until next year.
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Laravel 5.3.18
New Laravel Links
Yarn
Leanpub announces a new pricing model
Marked2 and Ulysses
Case sensitive file systems and web development
Powershell for mac/linux
Book: A Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley