

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
Mentioned books

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.

Apr 5, 2016 • 38min
Covering a few community Laravel packages
In this episode we talk about Laravel Exception Reporter, Chrome Bandwidth limiter, Chrome extension to generate Laravel tests, Jigsaw, Helpspot Vault, Fixing MySql Memory, Sparkwatch, Taxes, Jack runs into a laravel problem that Eric helps with.
Spark breaking news
3:15 Laravel Exception reporter - emails you anytime an exception is logged.
5:30 Chrome bandwidth limiter for testing.
7:10 Chrome extension to generate Laravel tests.
9:55 Jigsaw
13:20 Userscape helpspot Vault - an expiring way to send info.
15:10 Dropbox - share a file for a week
17:00 Mysql is still holding for Jack on 2gb,
17:15 Laravel tweeted that Mysql might know the root cause.
17:20 James Fairhurst wrote to tell us that Forge servers do not have swap files and it's just a few commands to add one.
19:10 SparkWatch continues, Jack predicts the 100th day of the year. April 9th.
22:00 taxes in the US - Jack and Eric chat about paying taxes on side work.
33:15 Eric helps Jack through a laravel problem involving a complex query and how to get that into a blade template.
Show links
Chrome extension to generate tests
Exception Recorder
Jigsaw
Vault
Adding a swap file to a linux box
PS (We don't say in the show what spark is, it's a starter project that has billing, invoicing, subscriptions, user management and more built in)
Also Star Wars Force unleashed was released on DVD and BluRay today...

Mar 22, 2016 • 35min
Composer updates, Laravel Backup 3, Katana, Mail Preview Driver, and more...
In this episode, we talk about the latest Laravel news including Composer updates, Github Relaxing their API limit, Laravel internals moving to Github issues. Then we talk about a few recent packages released including Katana, Laravel Backup 3, and a new mail preview driver.
News this week
Internals moved to Github
Github removes the API limit on composer installs
Update composer.json
Code and Packages
Katana
Laravel Backup 3
Mail preview driver
Easter Eggs.
Yep, this episode has several. They're easy to find if you start at the beginning and listen until the end...

Mar 8, 2016 • 60min
Interview with Shawn McCool about Laracon EU and Laravel Spark
In this episode, we talk with Shawn McCool about Laracon.eu and latest Spark news, my new dotdev.co project, and painless switching to mariadb.
Show Links:
dotdev.co
Laracon EU
Composer Hits Beta 1

Feb 23, 2016 • 1h 2min
Lots of converstion! CloudflareSSL and Forge, Laptop scam, Code fonts
Eric and Jack talk business, and the news this week, it's a long episode.
Operator Font
Matt's got a new book coming soon
Tutorial Laravel Forge and CloudflairSSL
Nigerian Laptop scam.
Github Scientist
Open letter to Github

Feb 10, 2016 • 24min
Laracon, Laravel Gurus, and more
Show Links
New Speakers announced for Laracon US
Laravel Gurus site relaunched.
Lessons learned during an audit of a project done in Laravel.
Why programming manuals aren’t on audiobook

Jan 26, 2016 • 43min
Database Backups, Test Driven Laravel, WordPress & Laravel, PDF generation, and the PHP Code of Conduct
Links from this episode:
Test driven Laravel development:
How the Laravel Release Process works
Generate PDF's
Using Laravel with Wordpress
Backups:
https://spatie.be/opensource/laravel
https://github.com/spatie/laravel-backup
https://ottomatik.io/


