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

Everyone on the show is presenting at Laracon NYC. http://www.decksetapp.com/ for beautiful presentations What do people most misunderstand about Laravel? PHP is not Java? PHPStorm. It's good. So is Jetbrains. Here's a theme that makes it better(tm). https://github.com/ShawnMcCool/PHPStorm-SpacePeacock Taylor's Conspiracy Theories Twitter, it's not just for sharing your lunch. Open-Source.. Does it make sense? Database Backup Package https://github.com/heybigname/backup-manager Flysystem http://flysystem.thephpleague.com The Economics of Open-Source. Laracon EU and SURVEY SAYS. Vaprobash. Laravel.io's next version.

Is this episode the cast discusses Laracon NYC, Laracon EU, the Laravel package Dispatcher, Hack, DDD, A/B Testing, the next version of Laravel.IO, Niel Patrick Harris, and PHPStorm for Sublime Text users. Hosted by Shawn McCool. Edited by Mitchell van Wijngaarden.

DDD, Facades, Laracon 2014 in NYC. Edited by Mitchell van Wijngaarden