An interview with Neo Ighodaro, co-founder of Laravel Nigeria and CTO of hotels.ng

Notes:

• Neo's Earliest drawings
• Laravel Nigeria
• Hotels.ng
• Building the Laravel Nigeria Community With Over 200 People Attending the First Meetup
• Neo speaking at Laravel Nigeria - Deploying Your Laravel Application
• Lagos
• CreativityKills
• Greymatter
• Mark Essien, founder of Hotels.ng
• FlashDP
• Kohana framework
• Prosper Otemuyiwa
• ForLoop
• Neo in a black hoodie

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Editing sponsored by Tighten; transcription sponsored by Laravel News.

An interview with Taylor Otwell, creator of Laravel, about what he did before Laravel and what got him started.

• Views by Drake
• The Life of Pablo by Kanye West
• Free 6LACK by 6LACK
• 808s and heartbreak by Kanye West
• Blue Neighbourhood by Troye Sivan
• Laravel & Lawns

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Editing sponsored by Tighten ;transcription sponsored by Laravel News.

Introducing season 3: an interview season, where Matt will be conducting long-form interviews of known and unknown members of the Laravel community to learn about who they are and what motivates them.

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Editing sponsored by Tighten; transcript sponsored by Laravel News.

In this episode, the crew talks about enterprise applications, scalability, and productivity.

Transcription provided by https://twitter.com/wtoalabi

In this episode, the crew talks about Mix, Dusk, Laracon US, package development using TestBench, GitLab, and more.

• Gitlab.com Database Incident
• Laravel from Scratch
• Laracon
• Orchestra Testbench

In this episode, the crew discusses Laravel Mix, Markdown mailables, Laravel Dusk, Laravel 5.4, and more.

• Matt's Learning Vue.JS Out Loud videos
• Five-Minute Geek Show: One Easy Tip to Being In the Top 2% of Freelancers
• Laravel Mix tweet
• Laravel News: Markdown Mail
• VueCasts
• Laravel: Up and Running - the book
• Test-Driven Laravel - video course
• Laracon US

In this episode, the crew discusses new Apple announcements, the Laracast redesign and improvements, Forge, Laravel 5.3 and 5.4 changes, and more.

• Set up a Mac Dev Machine From Scratch
• Penultimate
• Bear
• Suggestive on GitHub
• Laravel Podcast Suggestive
• Laravel News on Components and Slots
• Mohamed Said on Laravel 5.4 localization using JSON files
• Nintendo Switch ad

In this episode, the crew discusses PHP 7.1, Laravel Forge, Yarn, Validator improvements, and more.

• Yarn
• Yarn Laracasts
• Fluent builder unique/exists
• PHP 7.1 release notes

In this episode, the crew discusses Laracon US & EU, Laravel 5.3, Laravel's first hire, and the heart-wrenching sense of loss created by Bing Bong's death.

• Streamacon
• Laracon US videos
• Laracasts 5.3 series
• Mattstauffer.co 5.3 series
• Laravel news 5.3 release post
• What's up with Laravel Up and Running?
• Soft delete commit note
• Tighten Quicksand

The crew talks about where the routes file lives, some tantalizing hints of big new 5.3 features, Jeffrey's 2 sets of 2 hours plan, and Taylor's love for DHH.

• Jeffrey's 2 sets of 2 hours
• Taylor's tweet about Scout & Passport
• Tighten Blog: What I learned at The Basecamp Way To Work Workshop