
The Laravel Podcast
The Laravel Podcast brings you Laravel and PHP development news and discussion.
Latest episodes

Sep 12, 2014 • 1h
Episode 17 - Laravel 4.3.. I mean.. Laravel 5!
In this episode, we discuss Laravel 5, the No Capes initiative, Laravel Liferaft, PHP's position in the industry and its culture, continuous education, a company's ethical responsibility to their employees, and much more.

Aug 13, 2014 • 47min
Episode 16 - Southern Boys Being Polite
Laravel News, Laracon News, Laravel.IO News, PHPSpec, and Southern Boys Being Polite

May 28, 2014 • 1h 10min
Episode 15 - DHH and Haterade
In this episode the cast discusses ActiveRecord (when to use it), discusses some PHP drama relating Laravel to Rails, DHH, Martin Fowler, and Kent Beck's Is TDD dead? series, Laracon stuff and more. http://laracon.eu http://martinfowler.com/articles/is-tdd-dead https://github.com/mitchellvanw/laravel-doctrine

May 7, 2014 • 1h 6min
Episode 14 - DHH and Domain Events
In this episode the cast discusses recent DHH drama, complicated sequences of events, Laracon, Pair-Programming, and ActiveRecord. This time PHPStorm was only mentioned once. Link to the mentioned Laravel Doctrine package https://github.com/mitchellvanw/laravel-doctrine

Apr 29, 2014 • 1h 18min
Episode 13 - Cute Tools
Testing, 100% minimum coverage, TDD. The consequences of long-term high-intensity focus. What does PHPSpec have to offer? The battle over Trait / Interface suffixes. Imposter Syndrome. Links to other Podcasts mentioned in this episode. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ http://freakonomics.com/radio/ http://www.radiolab.org/ and just one extra added for relevance: elephantintheroom.io

Apr 21, 2014 • 1h 16min
Episode 12 - PHP isn't Java?
Everyone on the show is presenting at Laracon NYC. http://www.decksetapp.com/ for beautiful presentations What do people most misunderstand about Laravel? PHP is not Java? PHPStorm. It's good. So is Jetbrains. Here's a theme that makes it better(tm). https://github.com/ShawnMcCool/PHPStorm-SpacePeacock Taylor's Conspiracy Theories Twitter, it's not just for sharing your lunch. Open-Source.. Does it make sense? Database Backup Package https://github.com/heybigname/backup-manager Flysystem http://flysystem.thephpleague.com The Economics of Open-Source. Laracon EU and SURVEY SAYS. Vaprobash. Laravel.io's next version.

Apr 1, 2014 • 53min
Episode 11 - A/B Testing and Niel Patrick Harris
Is this episode the cast discusses Laracon NYC, Laracon EU, the Laravel package Dispatcher, Hack, DDD, A/B Testing, the next version of Laravel.IO, Niel Patrick Harris, and PHPStorm for Sublime Text users. Hosted by Shawn McCool. Edited by Mitchell van Wijngaarden.

Feb 13, 2014 • 1h 4min
Episode 10 - DDD and NYC
DDD, Facades, Laracon 2014 in NYC. Edited by Mitchell van Wijngaarden

Jan 10, 2014 • 1h 6min
Episode 9 - Next Laravel Release and Listener Questions
We discuss Laravel 4.2, some recent PHP events, and answer listener questions.

Nov 1, 2013 • 51min
Episode 8 - LaraEverything
Taylor Otwell and Jeffrey Way join us and talk about what they've been working on. We discuss Laracasts and Laravel 4.1 including some focus on the Laravel documentation. Taylor also gives some information about LaraconUS.