

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
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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/

Jan 12, 2016 • 25min
Laracon, Laravel 5.2, Simplecast, Linode, and Project Management
We kick off 2016 with a discussion on Upgrading to Laravel 5.2, Laracon, the Linode DoS attack, And simple project management tips that have made us more productive.
Show Links:
Laravel Shift
Lumen 5.2
Linode Outage
Attribution to http://www.freesfx.co.uk/ for the record scratch sound effect.

Dec 15, 2015 • 29min
PHP7, Laravel 5.2, LaraVer, and interviews with Colin O'Dell and Mike Bronner
Show Notes
PHP 7:
Colin O'Dell, author of PHP 7 UpgradeGuide Joins us to share new features of PHP7 and advice on things listeners might want to check before upgrading to PHP7.
Laraver
Mike Bronner joins us to talk about Laraver.xyz a new service that monitors the change logs for Laravel in Github
Show Links
What is coming to Laravel 5.2?
Forge now supports LetsEncrypt.
Flexbox Froggy is a cool intro to learn flexbox.
End of year update
This is our last episode for 2015, we'll be back on January 8th with more Laravel News!

Dec 1, 2015 • 35min
Laracon 2016 dates announced
Our most random episode yet. We cover the news and then it turns into a talk show. :)
Show Links
Laracon US 2016
50 Laravel tips
Laravel Daily 10 packages
Laravel Collections Unraveled
Godfather Trilogy on iTunes

Nov 17, 2015 • 26min
Laravel Homestead
Features of this episode include Fallout 4, Laravel Homestead, Lets Encrypt, some new Laravel packages, tutorials, and more...
Show Links
Fallout 4
Homestead
Lets Encrypt
PHP Saturday
Deploy PHP -- save 15% with the coupon thegoodnews
Writing your first Laravel package
Captain hooks package