The author explains their decision to publish their book 'Laravel: Up and Running' with O'Reilly instead of self-publishing.
Explains Laravel 5.2's middleware groups feature for simplifying route middleware management.
Explains the new implicit route model binding feature in Laravel 5.2, which simplifies linking URL parameters to Eloquent models.
A guide to creating custom @requires annotations in PHPUnit to conditionally skip tests based on environment variables like Travis CI.
Learn how to create custom Blade directives in Laravel to simplify conditional logic in your views, using a multitenant app as an example.
A guide to implementing Access Control List (ACL) authorization using the Gate system in Laravel 5.1.
Explains how to use Laravel 5.1's built-in login throttling feature to prevent brute-force attacks by limiting failed login attempts.
A guide to using Laravel 5.1's model factories to create fake data for cleaner and more efficient integration testing.
Learn how to write powerful and simple integration tests in Laravel 5.1 using new built-in methods like visit(), see(), and click().
Explains the new, simplified syntax for creating custom Artisan commands in Laravel 5.1, comparing it to the old method.
A guide on how to pass parameters to middleware in Laravel 5.1, using role-based authentication as a practical example.
A guide on how to install and upgrade to an in-development, pre-release version of the Laravel PHP framework using Composer.
A tutorial on building a Lumen microservice that generates Heroku-style random server names using a thesaurus API.
Lumen is a new micro-framework from Laravel, designed for building fast microservices and small, single-purpose applications.
A developer shares a code refactor by Laravel's creator, highlighting lesser-known features like Cache::remember.
A guide to setting up an on-demand PHP server using Grunt or Gulp, and integrating it with BrowserSync for live reloading during development.
Envoyer.io is a new zero-downtime deployment service for PHP and Laravel projects, launched by Taylor Otwell.
A tutorial on using the League/CSV package to export a Laravel Eloquent collection to a downloadable CSV file.
Explains Laravel 5.0's Eloquent attribute casting feature, which automatically converts model attributes to specific data types like boolean or integer.
A discussion of different approaches to organizing PHP class namespaces, focusing on modularity and cohesion in small-to-medium apps.
