North Meets South Web Podcast

Jake and Michael welcome to the show Matt Stauffer and discuss how he got to where he is today, life as technical director of Tighten Co., hiring and onboarding new developers, and his very soon to be released book Laravel Up and Running.

Jake and Michael relive the disconnection as a result of the great DDoS attack of October 2016, discuss changes in Laravel 5.3.19, rumoured features of the upcoming (and long overdue) MacBook refresh, as well as talk about working with and reviewing other people's code.

Jake and Michael return after a short break and talk about improvements to Laravel and Forge, the new package manager unveiled by Facebook, Yarn, and touch on the currently running Hacktoberfest.

Jake and Michael discuss starting a PHP meetup and becoming a speaker, the GitHub Universe, and GitLab's Master Plan.

In this, our tenth episode, Jake and Michael (but mostly Jake) talk with Adam Wathan on his journey towards the master of collections, not touching his friend's privates, as well as his plans for his upcoming Test Driven Laravel course.

After a brief hiatus, Jacob and Michael catch up on what they've been working on, migrating internal servers to using Forge and Envoyer, and tread ever so lightly around the potentially controversial Laravel Certification Program.

In this episode, Jacob and Michael talk about the recently released No Man's Sky, HTTP/2 middleware in Laravel, MailThief, and how Majestic Monoliths stack up against microservices.

Jacob and Michael catch up for the first time since returning from Laracon, discussing some of their favourite parts, talks, and memorable parts of the three-day event.

In this episode, Jacob and Michael talk about the latest craze Pokemon go, the tools they use for their daily development and productivity workflows, and handling token mismatch exceptions in the Laravel framework.

This episode sees Jacob and Michael interview their first guest, co-host of the Dads in Development podcast, David Hemphill. We get to know a little bit about where David is from, how he got to where he is, and what he does.

In this episode, Jacob and Michael discuss Sandi Metz's article "The Wrong Abstraction", Laravel Valet and their experiences with developing on both Mac and Windows, and the new mail testing package from Tighten Co, MailThief.

In this episode, Jacob and Michael talk about the upcoming Laracon US in Louisville, Kentucky and share their thoughts on Adam Wathan's recently released Refactoring to Collections book.

Jacob and Michael record their first episode, introduce themselves, and talk a bit about what they've been working on.