A Christmas Extravaganza

Jake and Michael are joined by No Plans To Merge's Caleb Porzio and Daniel Coulbourne, as well as TJ Miller (not the actor), and Chris Gmyr to look back at 2021, forward to 2022, and a very one-sided end of year game of Family Feud.

This episode is sponsored by Makeable, WorkVivo, and for the first (and last) time, White Cheddar Cheez Its.

This episode was streamed live.

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Programming in pairs, statically generated PHP, and how even does Statamic work?

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss a number of tools used for pair programming, approaches to statically generating sites in PHP, and show that despite Statamic existing in the Laravel community for many years, they have absolutely no idea how it actually works.

This episode is sponsored by Makeable.dk and Workvivo and was streamed live.

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Bringing tests into vanilla PHP apps, trust over process, and seeding tests

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss the all the work to consider before introducing tests to a vanilla PHP app, trusting people over adding layers of process, and seeing data in your tests and migrations.

This episode is sponsored by Makeable.dk and Workvivo.

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PHP 8.1, DTOs, and optimising your database

In this episode, Jake and Michael remember 9/11, talk about upcoming PHP 8.1 features, Data Transfer Objects, and approaches to optimising your database.

This episode is sponsored by Makeable.dk and Workvivo and was streamed live.

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Finals footy, deeply legacy code, and testing Laravel Spark

In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss 2021's AFL finals series, cricket, reinvigorating deeply legacy code, and some approaches for testing Laravel Spark.

This episode is sponsored by Makeable.dk and Workvivo.

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