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Why Mentoring Matters with Shawn Jones
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47 minute podcast
Shawn Jones joins us this week to talk all about mentoring and why it matters for everybody - even (or maybe even especially) developers. Transcript Dave Hicking: Welcome to Twenty Percent Time, a podcast from the...

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Meetings Don’t Have To Suck
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51 minute podcast
Jeanne Henry (Senior Project Manager at Tighten) and Molly Fisher (Project Manager at Tighten) join us this week to talk about why meetings don't have to suck - and what you should look for in a good...
Are Your Queue Workers ... Working?

Using Envoyer’s heartbeats to ensure your queues are running

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7 minute read
Let's walk through a simple and lightweight strategy to notify you when a queue isn't processing jobs. I'll give you the code, and talk about some ways I would consider extending it.
Legacy Web Apps
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47 minute podcast
Jamison Valenta (a Programmer at Tighten) joins us this week to dive deep into legacy apps - what to do if you've inherited one, how to know when to upgrade them, and a lot more. Transcript Dave Hicking:...
Turbo Laravel with Tony Messias
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35 minute podcast
Tony Messias (a programmer at Tighten) joins us this week to talk all about Hotwire & Turbo Laravel - what it is, why he thinks it's interesting, how it works, and more. Transcript Dave Hicking: Welcome to...
Torchlight with Aaron Francis
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43 minute podcast
Aaron Francis (our first outside guest!) joins us this week to talk all about his amazing package Torchlight — what it is, how it works, and what’s coming...
Welcome to Season 4!
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4 minute podcast
For this upcoming season, we’re switching things up a bit with a new co-host and maybe even some special...
Learning Laravel

Assets and Authentication

Photo of Kristin Collins Kristin Collins
10 minute read
Learn to install Laravel Breeze and create a custom Tailwind CSS theme.
Catching Up Laravel

How to Safely and Efficiently Upgrade an Out-of-Date Laravel App

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11 minute read
If you're running a Laravel application in the 5's, have a legacy application bootstrapped inside Laravel, don't have any tests, or are staring in silent terror at just how long ago your production server's php version hit its end-of-life, this post is for you!
Extensible Blade Components
Photo of Marcus Moore Marcus Moore
18 minute read
HTML is wonderful, right? What would we do without it? But anyone who's written HTML without a templating system knows how much of it is just chunks of code copied and pasted from file to file. Modern templating systems, like Laravel's Blade...
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Dan Sheetz

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