Laravel News Podcast

Join Jake and Michael as they bring you the latest news and happenings from around the Laravel community. Show links Zoolander's Black Lung LaravelLive India 2018 How to use Blade component and include aliases GitHub adds ability to quickly review changed functions in your PHP pull requests Add a check for Pwned passwords in your Laravel form validation Laravel 5.6.6 is released Return null if object property is undefined Laravel 5.6.7 is released Laravel 5.6.9 is released Added support for MySQL's "sound like" operator Added Collection::whereInstanceOf method Laravel Forge switches its Two-Factor Authentication Navigating a new Laravel codebase

Join us for a whirlwind journey through the latest Laravel Framework and Spark releases, as well as community project Larastream, and more. Show links Laravel 5.6 is live, here's what's new! Release notes for 5.6.x Spark 6.0 is now available Laravel model caching package: model-caching made easy Model caching for Laravel on Larastream by Mike Bronner Larastream - A Laravel live streaming community 5 Laravel helpers to make your life easier

Jake and Michael are joined by the Godfather of Laravel, Ian Landsman, to talk all about hiring developers and the latest platform to do so, LaraTalent. Show links HelpSpot Laracon Online Steve Schoger's design tips Discourse Coding Horror LaraJobs LaraTalent Laravel Certification Logan Noir

Jake and Michael record a show in three parts, with each spending a bit of time broadcasting solo, but as always, bringing you the latest news from the Laravel community. Show links Announcing Docker for PHP developers Laravel 5.6 adds the Collision package for CLI error reporting Stimulus: A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have Laravel 5.6 dynamic rate limiting provides per-user request throttling Laravel 5.5.33 is now released Beautiful CLI menus for Laravel Artisan commands Laravel Zero hemp/presenter laracasts/Presenter Presenters in Laravel

Jake and Michael catch up with Laravel News writer Paul Redmond and discuss all things Docker on the heels of Paul's new book Docker for PHP Developers Show links Paul Redmond Announcing Docker for PHP Developers Writing APIs with Lumen My simple approach to getting started with Docker and PHP

Jake and Michael discuss Laracon announcements, new framework features, model caching, and more. Show links Helium balloons and ceiling fans Laracon Online Laracon US 2018 announces speaker Robert C Martin Laracon AU Laravel 5.5.29 released BladeCompiler::doubleEncode() Allow StudlyCase and snake_case migration names Send status code 500 when using dd() Add s3:// protocol to URL validation Laravel model caching Oh Dear! Website and SSL monitoring application is now live Visual Studio Code for PHP Developers My VS Code Setup by Caleb Porzio Bootstrap 4 stable released, and what to expect next Install Microsoft SQL drivers for PHP 7 in Docker T25

Jake and Michael return for 2018 and catch up on several framework releases from the break, discuss the upcoming Laracon Online, and community projects from Chris Fidao and Steve Schoger. Show links Laravel 5.5.23 released Collection::firstWhere() Laravel 5.5.25 released Added support for Flysystem caching (Caching example from Jason Varga) Added support for year data type Added support for setting Whoops debug editor Open files in an editor Laravel 5.5.27 released Support passing collections to Collection::except (5.5.26) Made Command class macroable (5.5.26) Allow chaining of Request::merge() calls (5.5.27) Performance improvements of Model::getTable() reverted (5.5.27) Laravel 5.5.28 released Added AnonymousNotifiable::notifyNow() method Added EventFake::assertDispatchedTimes() method Chrome 63 now forces .dev domains to HTTPS Laracon Online Bootstrap 4 final beta released Bootstrap 4 Laravel preset for Laravel 5.5 Free Video Course: Scaling your Laravel applications on Forge Scaling Forge Introducing Heroicons UI - be notified when more icons are added Disneyland Adventures

Jake and Michael get together one last time for 2017 to bring you the latest news from around the Laravel Community. Show links Laravel 5.5.22 released response() and download() methods in Filesystem Complete temporary table support Laracon US 2018 is announced A package for Laravel Blade extension classes Laravel Advent calendar Version your apps with Laravel Version by Antonio Ribeiro Laratalks Kuala Lumpur Focus activation codes 51B8CF71-9DA98E84-53B51AA7-E99168BA-ADF432EE A3A62F32-201C2ACE-E0C20BEA-C3B739D0-3E7B301D

Jake and Michael take on episode 50 talking about survey results, frontend presets, code editors, Laracon in 2018, and a whole lot more. Show Links 2017 Laravel survey results Laravel Frontend Presets A Tailwind CSS preset for Laravel 5.5 Bootstrap 4 Laravel preset for Laravel 5.5 Laracasts: Free Visual Studio Code course Visual Studio Announces Live Share Atom Teletype - Code collaboration in realtime Laravel v5.5.20 released assertValidationErrors and assertJsonCount allOnQueue and allOnConnection Laravel v5.5.21 released Learn how to write a Vue JS wrapper component Focus App Laracon US 2018 website coming Cyber Monday Laracon AU 2018 Manage model revisions with ease with Odin Using fetch with Laravel by Jerguš Lejko Backup multiple sites and frameworks with Laravel Backup by Tim MacDonald Extending Laravel's Migration Command by Ankit Pokhrel Larvel Lisbon S01E01

Jake and Michael discuss new Laravel 5.5 features, community projects, and news and packages from the Laravel community. Show Links Laracon Online 2018 New route methods introduced in Laravel 5.5 Tailwind CSS Beard Vessel is a lightweight Docker environment for Laravel Reload your Tinker session with Tinx Continuous Testing Dashboard for Laravel Bootstrap Laravel 5 packages with Bootpack Collision is an error handler framework for console applications Email verification with Laravel 5.5 How to install Laravel on a cPanel server How to install Laravel on a DirectAdmin server Laravel Watchable package Taylor will do a video Q&A at your meetup F-Bar

Jake and Michael talk about a great number of new things from the Vue camp, talk a bit about handling form validation, changes in the Laravel framework, and rapid-fire through some community links. This episode is brought to you by SnapShooter - Keep your DigitalOcean servers safe Show links VueJS 2.5 released Vue.js Tutorial: From jQuery to Vue.js Object-Oriented Forms Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Form backend validation The official unit testing utility library for Vue.js is now available Testing Vue Vue.js official style guide is here! Laravel v5.5.15 Added option to make new model a pivot model Added secure and HTTP only params to cookie helper Optimize your application with Laravel Page Speed Protect your webhooks with Laravel Shield Laravel IO Redesign Concept Refactoring UI

Jake and Michael discuss the correct pronunciation of Vultr, new Laravel releases, testing Vue components with Laravel Dusk, and several community-contributed links. You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links. Show Links Laravel News Laravel 5.5.13 released Config option for whoops blacklist Laravel 5.5.14 released Allow passing a callback to with Who wants "component objects" in Dusk? Dusk Improvements: Vue + "Components" Vultr is now supported on Forge Vultr Plans & Pricing Hacktoberfest 2017 Community Links The Keys are the Key in Laravel multiple field sortBy() by Jeff Madsen My simple approach to using Docker and PHP by Paul Redmond Eloquent relationship cheat sheet by Mahmoud Zalt Pushing polymorphism to the database by Adam Wathan Eloquent combo methods by Jesse Schutt Laravel Validator Rules - Credit Card by Darius Matulionis Luhn algorithm Laravel password expired: force change password every 30 days by Povilas Korop

In episode 46 of the Laravel News Podcast, Jake and Michael discuss several new Laravel 5.5 minor releases, dynamic templates, and community surveys. You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links. Show Links Laravel 5.5 now includes TrustedProxy Servers for Hackers by Chris Fidao Laravel 5.5.3 released Geo Spatial blueprint methods Calculating distance using MySQL Laravel 5.5.5 released with a new route fallback to help customize your 404 views Laravel 5.5.11 released with a security fix Laravel 5.6 will remove the Artisan optimize command Dynamic templates in Laravel Blade with view::first Take the Laravel 2017 survey Sublime Text 3.0 is released The top five Laravel community editor themes Laravel colour scheme Laracon EU 2017 talk videos are now on YouTube

Jake and Michael speak about the latest Laravel and Lumen releases, version 5.5. We also talk about shareable models, Marcel Pociot's Botman chatbot framework, and season three of the Laravel Podcast. You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links. Show Links Laravel 5.5 LTS is now released Lumen 5.5 is released Laravel Certification Program announced at Laracon EU 2017 Laravel shareable models package The Laravel Podcast season three - teaser episode after the outro of this episode BotMan 2.0 PHP chatbot framework Laravel 5.5 optional, witDefault, and $attribute defaults

In this episode of the Laravel News podcast, Jake and Michael talk about Laracon EU, handling incoming email, bash aliases, and API resources. Sponsored by Manifold. Show Links Laracon EU Inbound email in Laravel Mailgun Paul Redmond New Laravel string helpers in 5.4 and 5.5 Laravel community Bash aliases All of the Laracon US 2017 Videos are now available Laracon US 2017 talk recaps Paul Irish's dotfiles API resources in Laravel 5.5 TJ Miller's API resources example

Jake and Michael return after a few weeks' hiatus to recap Laracon US 2017, the big reveal of Laravel Horizon, and catch up on the latest framework news. You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links. Show Links Ziggy: A package for named Laravel routes in JavaScript Laravel 5.5 Responsable interface for responses Pull Request Introducing Laravel Horizon Watch the Laracon US keynote by Taylor Otwell Laravel Valet v2.0.5 is released Laravel Homestead Version 6 released Switching PHP versions with Laravel Valet Laravel v5.4.29 is released with two new Blade directives Laravel v5.4.32 is released with a security fix for image uploads S3 temporary URL signing Laravel 5.5 pivot casting

In the final Laracon Sessions episode for 2017, Jake and Michael are joined by Taylor Otwell, Jeffrey Way, Matt Stauffer, and Adam Wathan to get the final word on the upcoming Laracon US conference in New York City. You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links. Guest Starring Taylor Otwell Jeffrey Way Matt Stauffer Adam Wathan Show Links Beau Simensen - Mixcloud Chainable jobs Custom validation rules RefreshDatabase trait Custom Blade if statements Trusted Proxy Request::validate() migrate:fresh command Support for Responsable objects Deep Work Mildly Alarming Podcast - It's not Dopayours, it's dopamine Top of the Rock Tom's Restaurant Laravel Forge Envoyer Laracasts Tighten Co. Laravel Up and Running Test Driven Laravel KiteTail - Building KiteTail

In the penultimate Laracon Session, Jake and Michael are joined by husband and wife tag-team speakers Michele and Mathias Hansen to talk about launching and scaling a side project, along with your regular dose of Laravel framework and community news. You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links. Guest Starring Michele Hansen Mathias Hansen Show links Geocodio The Motley Fool VideoBlocks Jobs to be Done 6 product books I wish I'd read sooner When coffee and kale compete Pixelbug Laracon US live stream tickets on sale Laravel 5.4.28 is released array_random helper unless Collection method fresh Eloquent Collection method BelongsTo default return Escape values in @yield DD and Dump is coming to Collections in Laravel 5.5 Spatie's Collection macros PSA: Carbon subMonth / addMonth behaviour useMonthsOverflow to change default Laravel.io launches its next version Tweetsnippet - a curated list of tips and tricks posted on Twitter by Casper Sørensen

Jake and Michael are joined by designer, product maker, and Laravel community newcomer Laura Elizabeth as we get ever-closer to Laracon 2017, 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: Laura Elizabeth Show links Design Academy Client Portal Laravel 5.4.25 Laravel 5.4.26 Laravel 5.4.27 Laravel package auto-discovery Take a deep dive into the Laravel core Diving Laravel by Mohamed Said Learn how to improve the performance of your Laravel app with Performant Laravel Performant Laravel by Chris Fidao Bring Laravel collections to JavaScript with collect.js Invisible reCAPTCHA integration with Laravel Partyline - A package to print to the Artisan console from anywhere

In Laracon Sessions Episode Three, Jake and Michael are joined by Jack McDade to discuss his surely-80s themed talk, as well as your regular dose of Laravel framework and community news. You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links. Guest Starring: Jack McDade Show links Statamic Wilderborn ContestKit Halt and Catch Fire Rails for Zombies Wizards, Lawnmowers, and Hovercrafts Deep Work Become a SuperLearner Hot Rod "quiet place" dance scene Laravel 5.4.24 is now released Gate resources Route isName Request routeIs - formerly isRouteName Filesystem hashing Model::refresh str_after helper Router apiResource Customer Validator rules in Laravel 5.5 - Taylor's blog post Whoops is coming back in Laravel 5.5 Zttp is a wrapper around Guzzle for simplifying common use cases

In Laracon Sessions Episode Two, Jake and Michael are joined by Tom Schlick to discuss his talk on multi-tenancy in Laravel, as well as your regular dose of Laravel framework and community news. You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links. Guest Starring: Tom Schlick Show links Laravel throw_if and throw_unless helpers Laravel 5.4.22 released and includes a security fix Laravel 5.4.22 release notes Eloquent query builder 'make' method Allow Eloquent 'find' method to support Arrayable arguments The Road to Laracon US

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 Show links 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

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. Show links 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

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. Show Sponsors Eyewitness.io, know how your applications are actually performing. Monitor your queues, schedulers/cron, email, logs, security, SSL, DNS and much more. Dead simple installation - be up and running in just 90 seconds... Show links 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

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. Show Links 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

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. Show Links 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

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. Show links 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!)

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. Show links 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

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. Show Links 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

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.

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. Show Links 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

In this epsiode, we talk about Computer Vision Syndrome, making the front page of Hacker News, troubleshooting Valet, and more. Show Links Hacktoberfest Computer vision Syndrome Cloudflare Troubleshooting Valet on macOS MAMP 4.0 factorio and MadSkillsMx

In this week's episode, we discuss the new Laravel 5.3.8, briefly cover Spark 2 & Lumen 5.3, and talk a lot about our progression of code editors. Show Links Spark v2 Lumen 5.3 Laravel 5.3.8 Vim 8.0 GitLab raises $20 million

In this episode, we are joined by Taylor Otwell and Jason McCreary to discuss Laravel 5.3, Laravel's first hire, and Laravel Shift. Guest Staring: Taylor Otwell and Json McCreary The episode of the Laravel News Podcast is sponsored by Shippo, the API and dashboard for all your shipping needs. Show Links Taylor Otwell Json McCreary Mohamed Said Laravel 5.3 Laravel Forge Laravel Shift Upgrading with Laravel Shift Laravel Passport

This week we are joined by Shawn McCool and Freek Van der Herten to talk about LaraconEU happening next. This episode is sponsored by Shippo - If you are shipping products Shippo will save you a ton of time. Show Links Shawn McCool SPATIE SPATIE's Laravel Packages Freek's Blog Interview with Freek about his talk Gearing up for Laracon.eu

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

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

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

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

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

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+

In this episode, we talk about Laravel Echo and new changes to Valet. Show Links Laravel Echo Laravel Valet PHP-FIG is imploding

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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