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We published a fun series of videos as a promo for our Black Friday sales. These videos are inspired by the more recent apple announcement videos. Let's take a look behind the scenes to see how they were made! The WWSD videos We used WWSD to name our week of Black Friday discounts. It stands for…
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🏎️💨 Here's another WWSD video to promote the 50% discount we'll have today on Laravel Comments and Media Library Ppro. All other spatie product are discounted 30%.
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A nice video tutorial by Bert De Swaef.
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Here's a nice video from Povilas in which he explores our spatie/laravel-stubs package.
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Here's my talk on our popular Laravel Data package, which I gave at Laracon Online earlier this week.
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Good tips by Jeffrey Way
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Povilas Korop of Laravel Daily made a cool video on the internals of our spatie/laravel-login-link package.
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Last month, The Laravel Documentary was released which showed the history behind Laravel. For the documentary a lot of people that are active in the Laravel community were interviewed.
From the footage that did not make into the documentary, the makers behind the documentary distilled a cool new short movie about PHP.
I'm honoured the some of my interview snippets made the cut. 😎
Getting started with testing is not that hard. Here's a free video taken from the Testing Laravel course that will show you how you can make sure you homepage works.
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This is an amazing documentary that shows the origins of Laravel, and it's 12 year journey. I'm honoured being a part of this.
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In this video, Jeffrey Way of Laracasts shares all the cool new stuff in Laravel 9.
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Last year, Laracon held another online edition in the summer. All of the videos are now publicly viewable. You'll find them in this playlist on YouTube.
I had the honour of doing a short talk on snapshot testing in PHP, which you can watch below.
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In a few lenghty sessions on YouTube, you can watch Shawn McCool build Tetris using PHP
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I was recently interviewed on my journey in PHP by the good folks at Kong. During this session you'll also see me demoing Ray.
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In this video, Michael steps a natural approache on how to test environment specific functionality.
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I am excited to share that my team and I have just launched v2.0 of our Laravel Package Training video course.
Here's a the introductory video for the course:
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Here's the recording of the latest edition of the Laravel Worldwide meetup. Philo Hermans showed off two great Livewire packages that he made. Steve McDougall did a cool live coding session on how to build APIs. And at the end, our suprise guest Caneco gave a nice little presentation on Lumen as…
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Liam Hammet explores the inner workings of Blade.
You will find all videos in this playlist on YouTube.
In this video, which is part of the Testing Laravel video course, I explain the benefits of testing.
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While recording videos for the Testing Laravel video course, I became a big fan of Pest, a test runner that tries to optimize the developer experience. I'm now using Pest as the default for testing new packages and projects.
I've also converted a couple of existing testsuites from PHPUnit to Pest. Luckily, this is a very easy process. In this video I'll show you how to get started. You'll see that it only takes a couple of minutes.
