Taylor Otwell 🪐

Taylor Otwell 🪐

Founded and creating Laravel for the happiness of all sentient beings, especially developers. Space pilgrim. 💍 @abigailotwell.

Appears in 65 Episodes

Episode 40: Will Smith Hates Vim

In this episode, the crew discusses Linode down time, server migrations, editors, Will Smith, and Mario Kart. Most importantly, Jeffrey & Taylor finally disagree.Linod...

Episode 39: Updates On All The Things

In this episode, the crew discusses the status and features of Laravel 5.2, Lumen 5.2, and Spark.URLRoutableJWTLaravel JWT-AuthLaravel CollectiveLaracasts PHP 7 series...

Episode 38: RepositoryBeanFactory

In this episode, the crew talks about architecture, over-architecting, helper functions, facades, crystal ball coding, code preppers, and more!Konstantin at Laracon Eu...

Episode 37: I Love The Things You Are Saying

In this episode, the crew discusses front-end tools like Vue, React, and Angular. Matt then discusses scheduled introspection to combat over-joyous Florida climate whi...

Episode 36: Dev School

In this episode, the crew talks about the challenges of learning to be a developer, developer bootcamps, advice to their former selves, and even their favorite clothes...

Episode 35: Laravel Love Affairs

In this episode, the crew discusses Laracon 2016, new framework features, preferred messaging applications, and Jack McDade possibly cheating on Taylor with Jeffrey.

Episode 34: Jobs & Jawas

In this episode, Matt and Taylor are joined by Ian Landsman of UserScape. Ian is the founder of UserScape, the creator of HelpSpot, and the man behind LaraJobs. The cr...

Episode 33: Post Laracon & Vices

In this episode, the team recaps Laracon, discusses a few of Matt's side projects, and details their juiciest vices.

Episode 32: Adam Wathan Is Strong

In this episode, the crew discusses simple code, staying focused, Adam vs. The Hulk, and coding music.

Episode 31: Public Speaking Preppers

In this episode, the crew discusses preparing for conference talks, vacationing, and dreamy destinations!

Episode 30: Trouble, Trouble, Trouble...

In this episode, the crew discusses architecture driven religious wars and the recent drama surrounding Apple Music.

Episode 29: PHP, Sublime Text, & Decorative Urns.

In this episode, the crew discusses 20 years of PHP, their favorite PHP features, Sublime Text, PHP Storm, Nintendo, and Jeffrey's first programming job.

Episode 28: Documentation, JavaScript, & Conspiracy Theories

In this episode, the crew discusses recent improvements to the Laravel documentation, Vue.js, ECMAScript 6, and a few conspiracy theories.

Episode 27 - Jeffrey Way: Tau Ceti Murderer

This week the crew discusses new Laravel 5.1 goodies, unit testing, Lifeline for iOS, and which album they would take to a desert island.

Episode 26 - Illuminated Tesla Micro-Services

In this episode, the crew discusses the recent release of Lumen, micro-services, Laravel 5.1 event broadcasting, and their favorite cars.

Episode 25 - Taylor Swift Is A Baller

In this episode, the crew discusses Jeffrey's "Integrated" testing package, Laracon, Laravel "the right way", and Justin Bieber.

Episode 24 - Dog At The Keyboard

In this episode, the crew discusses PHP 7, Browserify, and their favorite Mac applications.

Episode 23 - New Beginnings, Envoyer, & Laravel 5.1

The crew discusses the recent release of Envoyer and Laravel 5.0. Taylor gives a preview of Laravel 5.1. Jeffrey discusses current Laracasts happenings.

Episode 22 - Laravel 5 / Laracon Announcements Live Q&A

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

Episode 21 - Commands, Pipelines and Packages

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 ...

Episode 20 - The War on CRUD

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

Episode 19 - Live Q&A

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, Lara...

Episode 18 - The War over PHP Annotations

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 i...

Episode 17 - Laravel 4.3.. I mean.. Laravel 5!

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 eth...

Episode 16 - Southern Boys Being Polite

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

Episode 15 - DHH and Haterade

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? ...

Episode 13 - Cute Tools

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. I...

Episode 12 - PHP isn't Java?

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 J...

Episode 11 - A/B Testing and Niel Patrick Harris

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...

Episode 9 - Next Laravel Release and Listener Questions

We discuss Laravel 4.2, some recent PHP events, and answer listener questions.

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