How can you handle an interruption to your work, especially if it is an urgent request for help? We discuss how to do this without derailing your planned work for the day.

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We walk through a recent experience where Joel was about to "burn down the world," as Aaron calls it. Instead, after doing a little exploration of the Laravel framework code, we landed on a much cleaner solution.

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It feels good to finish a project, but before you move on, there are benefits to pausing and reflecting on what went well and what could have been better.

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We have to ship this feature in 2 weeks! Do we have time to test? In this episode we talk through this scenario and share some benefits of testing even under the pressure of a looming deadline.

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For some values, it can be tricky to know whether it's better to calculate it on the fly or when to calculate it once and store in the database. We talk through a recent scenario we bumped into, and what factors to weigh when making this decision

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We share a few rules that help guide us to determine when to manually fire an event versus when to wire up a model observer.

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Wrapping up our series on how we work, we talk through the end of a project and how to make sure there are no surprises.

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You learned a best practice, and it served you well. Is it set in stone? Or should you be open to re-evaluate later?

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We've all had disagreements about how to write or organize code, or how a feature should work. We share some tips on how to discuss it productively.

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Setting up a useful staging environment involves a number of choices. We discuss our preferred strategies and talk about why having a staging environment is a good thing.