North Meets South Web Podcast

North Meets South Web Podcast

By Jacob Bennett and Michael DyryndaTechnology
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North Meets South Web Podcast episodes

  • WordPress, UUIDs, and testing revelations

    This episode, Jake and Michael speak about working with UUIDs in Laravel, Wordpress, and testing mindsets.

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    • Store UUID in an optimized way
    • Laravel model UUIDs
    • Laravel efficient UUIDs
    • Build APIs You Won't Hate by Phil Sturgeon
    • Advanced Custom Fields
    • Australia's Science Channel
    • Divi by Elegant Themes
    • TDD; one thought at a time, complete it before starting another
    • Running Laravel Dusk on TravisCI and CircleCI
    • Disabling exception handling in Laravel 5.4 feature tests
      • 37 min
    • Mentoring, upgrading config, and cloud infrastructure

      Jake and Michael discuss self-improvement through mentoring developers new to Laravel, upgrading configuration between Laravel versions, and IAM credentials on cloud infrastructure.

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      • 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 lesson from our serverless migration
      • Amazon Cognito
      • North Meets South apparel
        • 32 min
      • Clouds, queues, and learning to code

        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.

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        • 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
        • Laravel custom authentication guards
        • Laravel custom authentication providers
          • 29 min
        • Non-recording, updating Laravel, and huge manatees

          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.

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          • There (probably) won't be another Laravel LTS
          • Ship my pants
          • Big gas savings
          • Laravel Shift
          • Jason McCreary
          • YAGNI - Larcon US 2016
          • trash-cli
          • Wes Bos
          • Skip YouTube pre-roll ads
          • Curious George - Monkey Down Under
          • Javascript 30
          • ES6 for everyone
          • Markdown to Medium
          • extract-gfm
            • 36 min
          • Screencasting, Markdown to Medium, and Google Cloud Storage

            Michael and Jake return with their slightly tinkered format, where they focus on challenges overcome and things learnt in day to day framework usage.

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            • 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
            • Laravel Up and Running
              • 31 min
            • Happy New Year

              Spare 68 seconds of your day to let Michael and Jake thank you for being such terrific supporters of our podcast in 2016

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              • Relient K - Auld Lang Syne
                • 2 min
              • Inaugural North Meets South Meets Dads In Dev Christmas Extravaganza Web Podcast

                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.

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                • Christmas Wishlists

                  • Espresso Works Espresso Machine
                  • Breville Barista Express
                  • Kenwood Chef XL
                  • Shure SM7B
                  • White Elephant Gift Exchange

                  • Christmas Movies

                    • National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
                    • Jingle All The Way
                    • Die Hard
                    • Elf
                    • Home Alone (Tarantula Scene)

                    • Super Mario Run (iOS Only)

                    • Buy it for your kids, it's a write off (Write it off)

                    • President-Elect Donald Trump in Home Alone 2

                    • Jerry Seinfeld (Write-offs)

                    • Jim Gaffigan

                    • Louis CK

                    • George Carlin

                    • Filmsupply

                    • Private Packagist

                    • vue-validator

                    • vuelidate

                    • Summer Wonderland by Ronan Keating for Air New Zealand

                      1 hr 17 min
                    • Mince pies, Laravel 5.4 updates, and Vue server-side rendering

                      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.

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                      • 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 5.4
                      • Blade components and slots
                      • Vuex
                      • Vue.js devtools
                      • Simple state management in Vue
                      • Vue server-side rendering
                        • 42 min
                      • PHP 7.1, contributing to Open Source for Christmas, and posting on Medium as a developer

                        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.

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                        • 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
                        • Jake's Medium syntax highlighting solution
                          • 37 min

                        About North Meets South Web Podcast

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                        Jake Bennett and Michael Dyrynda conquer a 14.5 hour time difference to talk about life as web developers