North Meets South Web Podcast

In this episode, Jake catches up with Sam Carré again to discuss his latest package, Saloon, which gives you a beautiful, standardised way to build your own API integrations.

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• Sam Carré
• Saloon

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss delicious cured mystery meats, faking Wordle as a form of code Kata, and using SMS as an interface to your applications.

This episode is sponsored by Workvivo and Makeable.dk and was streamed live.

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• Wordle
• Jake's Wordle solution faker - use sensibly

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss Michael's new job, YAGNI, and approaches to working your way into a new codebase and a new industry.

This episode is sponsored by Workvivo and Makeable.dk and was streamed live.

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• Laravel Transporter
• Saloon
• YAGNI
• ClickUp
• Allen Holub on building software better and building better software 

Jake and Michael are joined by No Plans To Merge's Caleb Porzio and Daniel Coulbourne, as well as TJ Miller (not the actor), and Chris Gmyr to look back at 2021, forward to 2022, and a very one-sided end of year game of Family Feud.

This episode is sponsored by Makeable, WorkVivo, and for the first (and last) time, White Cheddar Cheez Its.

This episode was streamed live.

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• David Hemphill
• Andrew Del Prete
• Caleb Porzio
• Daniel Coulbourne
• No Plans To Merge
• TJ Miller
• Chris Gmyr
• Curology
• Laravel Beyond CRUD

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss Michael's change in job (again), and when you might choose single table inheritance over polymorphism.

This episode is sponsored by Workvivo and Makeable.dk and was streamed live.

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• No Compromises
• Laravel test generator
• Parental
• Pushing polymorphism to the database

In this episode, Jake and Michael are joined by Statamic's Jesse Leite to discuss some of the various content authoring strategies available in the flat-file content management system, Statamic.

This episode is sponsored by Makeable.dk and Workvivo and was streamed live.

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• Jesse Leite
• Statamic

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss a number of tools used for pair programming, approaches to statically generating sites in PHP, and show that despite Statamic existing in the Laravel community for many years, they have absolutely no idea how it actually works.

This episode is sponsored by Makeable.dk and Workvivo and was streamed live.

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• Sublive
• StreamYard
• Around
• Tuple
• CSS Tricks
• Chris Coyier
• Shop Talk Show
• Statamic
• Pagely
• WP Engine
• Statamic 3 Guide

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss the all the work to consider before introducing tests to a vanilla PHP app, trusting people over adding layers of process, and seeing data in your tests and migrations.

This episode is sponsored by Makeable.dk and Workvivo.

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• Abusing Laravel for fun and profit by David Hemphill at Laracon AU 2018
• Oh Dear's migration to Spark Next
• Strangling legacy code
• The Bike Shed - Marketing Matters (on saying "no" to more process)
• Potato, Potahto

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss some of the challenges faced when modernising deeply legacy PHP applications.

This episode is sponsored by Makeable.dk and Workvivo.

In this episode, Jake and Michael remember 9/11, talk about upcoming PHP 8.1 features, Data Transfer Objects, and approaches to optimising your database.

This episode is sponsored by Makeable.dk and Workvivo and was streamed live.

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• Birds Aren't Real
• Data Transfer Objects
  • spatie/data-transfer-object
• MySQL slow query log
• EXPLAIN statements
• Notion's questionably heavy static marketing site