Jake and Michael discuss the perils of line feeds (and sometimes carriage returns), snapshot testing, and dealing with false-positives when processing API requests.

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• Snapshot testing with PHPUnit
• A practical introduction to snapshot testing
• Laravel SOAP client

Jake and Michael discuss some different approaches to role-based permissions, and how to tackle assignment, management, and authorisation of them.

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• Bouncer
• Laravel Permission
• Laravel roles and permissions explained
• Inertia v1.0 is here
• Advanced Inertia

Jake and Michael are joined by TJ Miller (still not the actor), Chris Gmyr, and David Hemphill (neither of whom are actors, either) to look back at 2022, forward to 2023, and yet another one-sided end of year game of Family Feud.

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• David Hemphill
• TJ Miller
• Chris Gmyr
• Curology
• Laravel Nova

Jake and Michael discuss the various forms of documentation that can live within an organisation, where to put it, how to find it, and how to keep it up to date.

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• LaRecipe
• Learn how to write delightful documentation
• The Documentation System

Jake and Michael discuss the developer's minifesto, some of the theatre that goes into organisational Agile, and Michael goes off on some incoherent rambling about all manner of different topics.

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• Only solve one problem at a time
• Manifesto for minimalist software engineers
• Manifesto for agile software development
• Agile anti-patterns

In this episode, Jake and Michael talk more about using value objects, forking Saloon and backporting it for PHP 7.4 support, and moving validation deeper into your application.

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• Using Value Objects in Laravel
• Saloon
• Using Saloon to integrate external APIs with Sam Carré

Jake and Michael discuss the new environment encryption functionality in Laravel, encrypting application data, and using (very?) magic named constructors.

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• New encryption commands
• Ignoring the .env.production file
• Encrypted casts in Eloquent
• Laravel Sanctum
• Using Value Objects in Laravel
• Saloon

Jake and Michael discuss some ways to leverage Laravel's validation functionality along with value objects to improve your validation logic, refactoring applications, and the return of in-person events for 2023.

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• Where does validation live?
• Value objects

Jake is joined by Luke Downing to discuss working with and testing SOAP interfaces with modern PHP.

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• Luke Downing
• A Laravel SOAP client that provides a clean interface for handling requests and responses
• Pest from Scratch on Laracasts

Jake and Michael discuss approaches to building multi-week features, leaning on Laravel to handle bubbling up of exceptions, and using composable actions to provide multiple entry points to the same application behaviours.

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• Actions are a dev's best friend