Jake Bennett
Christ follower, web dev designer @wilbergroup and @laravelphp fanboi. Co-host of @northsouthaudio and @laravelnews with @michaeldyrynda
Appears in 166 Episodes
Mince pies, Laravel 5.4 updates, and Vue server-side rendering
Michael and Jake managed to record this week whilst Michael's family was visiting to talk about mince pies, changes coming in Laravel 5.4, new versions of Homestead an...
PHP 7.1, contributing to Open Source for Christmas, and posting on Medium as a developer
After some erratic recording, Jake and Michael return for consecutive weeks to talk about PHP 7.1, contributing to Open Source for Christmas, and posting on Medium as ...
Giving thanks, verifying max post size, and Vue & ES6
Jake and Michael record on Thanksgiving to catch up on what they've been up to, discuss dealing with overloading max post size, and what Jake learned about Vue and ES6.
Up and Running with Matt Stauffer
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 de...
Denials of Service, MacBooks, and reviewing other people's code
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 (a...
Laravel and Forge improvements, Yarn, and Hacktoberfest
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 curr...
Meetups, the Universe, and master plans
Jake and Michael discuss starting a PHP meetup and becoming a speaker, the GitHub Universe, and GitLab's Master Plan.
Jake and Michael's Introduce Adam Wathan in under an hour
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 privat...
Post-Hiatus Catchups, Migrating To Forge And Envoyer, And Certification
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 arou...
No Man's Sky, HTTP2, and Majestic Monoliths
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 ...
Post-Laracon Crash
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.
Gotta catch 'em all, developer tools, and mismatched exceptions
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 toke...
Music, Beards, and MMA with David Hemphill
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 Da...
Wrong Abstractions, Valet, and MailThief
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, a...
Refactoring to Laracon
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 t...
Introductions
Jacob and Michael record their first episode, introduce themselves, and talk a bit about what they've been working on.