North Meets South Web Podcast Jacob Bennett and Michael Dyrynda

Jake and Michael discuss bowling, onboarding new junior developers right out of college, and the mindset required to be able to teach people the very basics of programming (and reading).

Jake and Michael discuss some of the gotchas upgrading from a previous version of Laravel to 11.x, integrating a React frontend built in parallel to its backend, nested validation, and the simplicity of using a batteries-included framework like Laravel.
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Laravel BootcampLaracastsLaravel Up and RunningOnramp to LaravelLaravel Shift

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss Verbs, a take on event sourcing that strives to be simpler and more obvious to grok, children stealing device chargers, and some things to remember when upgrading to Laravel 11.
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VerbsLaravel Shift

Jake and Michael discuss using state machines to handle accurately and predictably handling error state, reviewing code and having your code reviewed, and converting request objects to data objects
Show links- XState- Jake's State Machine's talk from Laracon US- Spatie's Laravel Data

Jake and Michael discuss another of Michael's podcasts, Ripples, setting up review sites on Laravel Forge with Ryan Chandler's Forge Previewer, and speaking and attending Laracon(s).
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RipplesRyan ChandlerForge PreviewerLaracon USPHPTekHere’s why you should attend Laracon

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss the differences between transactional and campaign email and some approaches to sending them. We also touch on Jake speaking on PHP[TEK] 2024 on the topic of state machines.
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StatechartsXState Visualizerxstate-vizMermaid[PHP]TEK 2024List-Unsubscribe headerGoogle email sender guidelinesSendStackMailCoachConvertKit