Laravel 5 was released and Laracon conferences were just announced! The perfect opportunity for another live question and answer podcast!

Laravel 5 is getting closer to beta and we discuss some upcoming changes as well as get into a discussion about when to use certain features of the framework and when they might be overkill.

We talk about configuration and queue updates, architecture and CRUD apps, choosing the right persistence solution, and a lot more.

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This is the audio portion of our first live recorded video podcast. We took live question and answer and discussed Laravel 5 release scheduling, ORM origin story, Laravel internals, Angular/Angular 2, and more!

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In this episode, we discuss new Laravel 5 features including annotated routing and middlewares. We discuss some motivations and guiding forces that make Laravel what it is. Also, hints about Jeffrey and Taylor's secret new project. The referenced article by @everzet can be found here: http://everzet.com/post/99045129766/introducing-modelling-by-example

In this episode, we discuss Laravel 5, the No Capes initiative, Laravel Liferaft, PHP's position in the industry and its culture, continuous education, a company's ethical responsibility to their employees, and much more.

Laravel News, Laracon News, Laravel.IO News, PHPSpec, and Southern Boys Being Polite

In this episode the cast discusses ActiveRecord (when to use it), discusses some PHP drama relating Laravel to Rails, DHH, Martin Fowler, and Kent Beck's Is TDD dead? series, Laracon stuff and more. http://laracon.eu http://martinfowler.com/articles/is-tdd-dead https://github.com/mitchellvanw/laravel-doctrine

In this episode the cast discusses recent DHH drama, complicated sequences of events, Laracon, Pair-Programming, and ActiveRecord. This time PHPStorm was only mentioned once. Link to the mentioned Laravel Doctrine package https://github.com/mitchellvanw/laravel-doctrine

Testing, 100% minimum coverage, TDD. The consequences of long-term high-intensity focus. What does PHPSpec have to offer? The battle over Trait / Interface suffixes. Imposter Syndrome. Links to other Podcasts mentioned in this episode. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ http://freakonomics.com/radio/ http://www.radiolab.org/ and just one extra added for relevance: elephantintheroom.io