

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 9, 2016 • 46min
The Laracon US Recap Episode
In this episode, we talk about last weeks Laracon, some of our favorite talks, and the new Laravel News.
Show links:
Video: Taylor Otwell covering new features for Laravel 5.3
Laracon US 2016 Recap - Includes links to all the slides
The new Laravel News
Laravel 5.3

Jul 25, 2016 • 1h 13min
The Laracon US 2016 Special With Taylor Otwell, Evan You, Chris Fidao, and Adam Wathan
A special "Laracon" edition of the podcast.
In this episode, we chat with Taylor Otwell, Evan You, Adam Wathan, and Chris Fidao about their talks at Laracon, projects they're working on, getting the most out of the conference and more. There's great stuff here, even if you're not attending!
Show Links:
Laracon.us
Forge
Spark
Envoyer
Adam's refactoring book
Vue.js
Support Evan You on Patreon
Chris's Servers For Hackers book

Jul 12, 2016 • 16min
Laracon, Laravel 5.3 Advanced Where, October CMS, Canvas
In this episode, we discuss Laracon Live Streaming, the new advanced where for Collections, and a few new apps and packages.
Show Links
Laravel Helper Functions
Advanced Where in Collections
Laravel Password
October CMS releases their first stable version
Canvas a minimal blogging app
Larachat Archive
Use 'regular' functions where you would normally use an Anonymous function
Jacks article on Anonymous Functions on dotdev.co

Jun 28, 2016 • 30min
Refactoring to Collections with Adam Wathan
In this week's Laravel News podcast we have Adam Wathan on to talk about his book Refactoring to Collections and a new package MailThief.
Show Links
Refactoring with Collections
Mailthief
Full Stack Radio
Super Secret Discount Code save 25% off Refactoring with Collections with the code: laravelnews

Jun 14, 2016 • 36min
A look at what's coming to Laravel 5.3
A look at what's coming to Laravel 5.3
Building a Status Board using Laravel and Vue
Oh my zsh
Auto embed email package
Using Webmin admin console (youtube video by Roy Verrips)
Tip of the day:
Make the CD command case insensitive by adding the following to your ~/.inputrc file:
set completion-ignore-case on
As seen in the free book: Working with Forge Servers

May 31, 2016 • 11min
Jack reads the news
Jack reads the laravel related news this week.
Eric is off this week.
All the news from issue 105 of the Laravel-News.com newsletter.
Laravel is turning 5
Original "Introducing Laravel" post from Taylor
New Spark Tutorial added this week.
Several new articles on dotdev.co on using git for Branching, merging and rebasing (great articles)
Several articles on using view Composers
Contract testing
Multiple Migrations Paths coming in Laravel 5.3
Cascading softdeletes with Laravel 5 (package)
Scaffolding with custom commands by Amo Chohan
Laravel API generator
Laravel Docusign
Request rate limiter middleware for Laravel 5.2+

May 17, 2016 • 23min
Laravel Echo, Valet, and PHP-FIG implosion
In this episode, we talk about Laravel Echo and new changes to Valet.
Show Links
Laravel Echo
Laravel Valet
PHP-FIG is imploding

May 7, 2016 • 35min
Laravel Valet with Taylor Otwell and Adam Wathan
Laravel Valet is a new high-speed development environment by Taylor Otwell and Adam Wathan.
In this special edition episode of the Laravel News Podcast Eric and Jack are Joined by Taylor and Adam as they discuss everything about Valet, how it came to be and the amazingly short time from idea to completed product. They talk about the internals, how it works, how external sharing works, the driver architecture and more.
An audio copy of the Official Valet Commerical is at the end of the episode
Show Links
Valet Announcement
First look at Valet
The magic behind Valet

May 3, 2016 • 27min
Interview with Mike Bronner about his early experiences with Laravel Spark
Jack reads the news and interviews Mike Bronner while Eric takes a much needed week off.
Eric sent out his 100th episode of the Laravel News Newsletter!
Interview with Mike Bronner (@mikebronner) who shares his experiences being one of the first users to get Spark into production.
Mike talked about larachat live @larachatlive that meet Thursdays at 7pm CST
ViewJS 2.0
PHP RFC: Pipe operator
Book updates:
Easy Laravel 5 Book and companion Website
Laravel 5.2 for beginners by Bill Keck
CodeSmart by Dayle Rees
Working With Forge Servers -by Jack Fruh & Friends
Tutorials:
Generate Fake Localized data with laravel
Tweet Streaming With laravel by Daniel Abernathy
Using SparkPost for Transactional emails with Laravel
Run tests inside your deploy script
EcmaScript 6 Crash Course
Conditionally adding to Laravel Query Builder
Packages:
BeautyMail
Laravel Generators
Laravel Friendships
UUID generator
Spatie Laravel Newsletter Package

Apr 19, 2016 • 42min
Laravel Spark with Taylor Otwell
This week Taylor Otwell joins us to talk all about Spark!
Show links:
Laravel Spark Beta
Composer "Gold" Floppy sells for >$1400USD!
Laravel Cheat Sheets.