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Jake and Michael discuss self-improvement through mentoring developers new to Laravel, upgrading configuration between Laravel versions, and IAM credentials on cloud infrastructure. We now have swag - check out the store ! Show links Jeffrey Zeldman Somebody is always where you were yesterday Batman Game by bigjman123 Rubber ducking Queue::pushRaw Adele Amazon IAM Google Cloud Platform IAM The key...

In this episode, Jake and Michael talk about 80 new Pokemon, Jake streaming zip files from Amazon S3, Michael's woes with queues and Google Cloud Platform, as well as learning to code with PhaserJS. Show links 80 new Pokemon S3BucketStreamZip GCP Object Change Notification Beanstalk JOB_TOO_BIG Laravel Queues Phaser JS Ranger Steve Batman game Space Beer Cave - Three Devs and a Maybe Fraser Hart L...

After a hiccup that led to having to re-record the first five minutes of the show, Jake and Michael talk about manually updating Laravel apps and the virtues of doing so regularly, a brief outburst on politics, and comparing modern JavaScript frameworks with legacy jQuery. Show links There (probably) won't be another Laravel LTS Ship my pants Big gas savings Laravel Shift Jason McCreary YAGNI - La...

Michael and Jake return with their slightly tinkered format, where they focus on challenges overcome and things learnt in day to day framework usage. Show Links Laravel Migration Exporter for Sequel Pro Switching PHP versions with Laravel Valet asciinema Markdown to Medium Route model binding Google Cloud Storage Bootstrap 4 spacing utilities via Till Krüss SameTime.co - Group text reminders Larav...

Jake and Michael return in 2017 catching up after the holiday season, talk about various CSS frameworks, and make a big announcement! Show Links Leviathan Rises Markdown to Medium Bulma BeardCSS Twitter Bootstrap Bootstrap 4 Alpha 6 Laravel News Podcast

Spare 68 seconds of your day to let Michael and Jake thank you for being such terrific supporters of our podcast in 2016 Show Links Relient K - Auld Lang Syne

Michael and Jake catch up with the hosts of our sister Dads in Dev podcast David Hemphill to round out the year with talk of Christmas, structuring single page applications, JavaScript frontends with client-side validation, and private Packagist. Show Links Christmas Wishlists Espresso Works Espresso Machine Breville Barista Express Kenwood Chef XL Shure SM7B White Elephant Gift Exchange Christmas...

Michael and Jake managed to record this week whilst Michael's family was visiting to talk about mince pies, changes coming in Laravel 5.4, new versions of Homestead and Valet, and Vue JS server-side rendering. Show Links Mince pies Valet 2.0 Homestead 4.0 Homestead using 62TB of traffic a month Shipping Docker by Chris Fidao Changes coming to the Laravel release cycle Route improvements in Laravel...

After some erratic recording, Jake and Michael return for consecutive weeks to talk about PHP 7.1, contributing to Open Source for Christmas, and posting on Medium as a developer. Show Links PHP 7.1 is now released – Featuring nullable types, class constants, and more PHP 7.1 Changelog Fun, Fun, Functions - Semicolons cannot save you! 24 Pull Requests Advent of Code 24 Ways Test-Driven Laravel Jak...

Jake and Michael record on Thanksgiving to catch up on what they've been up to, discuss dealing with overloading max post size, and what Jake learned about Vue and ES6. Show Links Laravel Spark 50% off Laravel Spark integration tests Adam Wathan's Test Driven Laravel 50% off O'Reilly - Pick Up Matt Stauffer's Laravel Up and Running Uploads that exceed post_max_size causing misleading exceptions Su...

Jake and Michael welcome to the show Matt Stauffer and discuss how he got to where he is today, life as technical director of Tighten Co., hiring and onboarding new developers, and his very soon to be released book Laravel Up and Running Matt Stauffer Twitter Blog Tighten Co. Show Links ConFOMO Gistlog TheDraw 7 Patterns to Refactor Fat ActiveRecord Models Larajobs Breezy HR Commitments, not (or a...

Jake and Michael relive the disconnection as a result of the great DDoS attack of October 2016, discuss changes in Laravel 5.3.19, rumoured features of the upcoming (and long overdue) MacBook refresh, as well as talk about working with and reviewing other people's code. Show Links Major cyber attack disrupts internet services across Europe and US Dyn Statement on 10/21/2016 DDoS Attack LIFX Globes...

Jake and Michael return after a short break and talk about improvements to Laravel and Forge, the new package manager unveiled by Facebook, Yarn, and touch on the currently running Hacktoberfest. Show Links The Safe House Revamped validation syntax Model Factory States Forge Improvements Manage MySQL Databases PHP 7.1 Custom VPS Load Balancers GitLab Support PHPRFCBot IETF RFCBot by @bradleyfalzon...

Jake and Michael discuss starting a PHP meetup and becoming a speaker, the GitHub Universe, and GitLab's Master Plan. Show Links Cal Evans Voices of the Elephpant PHP Adelaide Michael's Developing Web Apps Slide Deck CodeMash Spin a Good Yarn GitHub Universe ( Mission Report ) waffle.io GitLab ( Master Plan ) Travis CI Style CI adLDAP Quicksort Dredd Phil Sturgeon Build APIs You Won't Hate

In this, our tenth episode, Jake and Michael (but mostly Jake) talk with Adam Wathan on his journey towards the master of collections, not touching his friend's privates, as well as his plans for his upcoming Test Driven Laravel course. Show Links Adam Wathan Full Stack Radio Sam's Teach Yourself HTML4 in 24 Hours Reaper Vehikl (formerly Chrome Media) BeardCSS Tighten Co. Refactoring to Collection...

After a brief hiatus, Jacob and Michael catch up on what they've been working on, migrating internal servers to using Forge and Envoyer, and tread ever so lightly around the potentially controversial Laravel Certification Program. Show Links Laravel Forge Envoyer BrickFTP Symfony ParameterBag Flysystem SFTP Driver Laravel Backup by Spatie between / unlessBetween with Laravel's Scheduler Presenters...

In this episode, Jacob and Michael talk about the recently released No Man's Sky, HTTP/2 middleware in Laravel, MailThief, and how Majestic Monoliths stack up against microservices. Show Links No Man's Sky Lego: The Force Awakens How Big Is No Man's Sky? Eploring the 2^64 planets of No Man's Sky - a 64-bit integer may actually be 2^63 - 1, not 2^64 Ben Ramsey - Long Live HTTP/2 from Laracon US Tom...

Jacob and Michael catch up for the first time since returning from Laracon, discussing some of their favourite parts, talks, and memorable parts of the three-day event. Show Links Laravel Notifiable docs Laravel Mailable docs Sandi Metz - Get a Whiff of This Jason McReary - YAGNI Ryan Singer - live demo, no slides. Wait for the videos! Adam Wathan - Curing the Common Loop Laracon US 2016 Recap Con...

In this episode, Jacob and Michael talk about the latest craze Pokemon go, the tools they use for their daily development and productivity workflows, and handling token mismatch exceptions in the Laravel framework. Show Links Pokemon Go - iTunes / Google Play Detective Pikachu live action Pokemon film Tools of the Trade: Software we love (or tolerate) at Tighten vim Sublime Text vimgifs on Twitter...

This episode sees Jacob and Michael interview their first guest, co-host of the Dads in Development podcast, David Hemphill. We get to know a little bit about where David is from, how he got to where he is, and what he does. Show Links David Hemphill - @davidhemphill Rebl Ventures Monarkee Music Bed Church Media Group Beard CSS Atomic CSS by Yahoo! Solid by BuzzFeed InuitCSS Emmet @-symbols in CSS...

In this episode, Jacob and Michael discuss Sandi Metz's article "The Wrong Abstraction", Laravel Valet and their experiences with developing on both Mac and Windows, and the new mail testing package from Tighten Co, MailThief. Show Links The Wrong Abstraction by Sandi Metz Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby (POODR) DRY - Don't Repeat Yourself Rule of three Laravel Valet ngrok Picatic Laragon...

In this episode, Jacob and Michael talk about the upcoming Laracon US in Louisville, Kentucky and share their thoughts on Adam Wathan's recently released Refactoring to Collections book. Laracon US Refactoring to Collections by Adam Wathan Review: Adam Wathan's Refactoring to Collections Adam has graciously offered a 25% discount to the first ten listeners who use the coupon code "northmeetssouth"...

Hostworks The Foundry ConFOMO .dev Wilber Group Laravel Nullable Fields ( blog post ) Laravel Cascade Soft Deletes ( blog post ) Cascading Soft Deletes with Laravel 5 Voice Timer annyang! Refactoring to Collections by Adam Wathan Michael's Recommended Podcasts Overcast Laravel Queues How Laravel's SerializesModels Trait Could Save Your Bacon Laravel Events