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Back to SearchShould you fix all bugs in a legacy project?
Episode 52
You've inherited a legacy app. It's "running fine" in production, but when you add an error reporting tool, you see hundreds of errors, warnings, and…
3 years, 9 months ago
Learning from other communities
Episode 51
Can a Laravel developer learn something from the Rails or Erlang communities? We share some perspective on how to broaden your horizons, and when mig…
3 years, 10 months ago
Uh-oh, that proof of concept is going into production. Now what?
Episode 50
Many of us have built something we thought was "throw-away" code, only to have someone decide it's good enough to ship to production. How can you pre…
3 years, 10 months ago
The benefits of sharing what you learn
Episode 49
If you are listening to this, you probably enjoy hearing other people share what they've learned. In this episode, we turn the tables and explain why…
3 years, 11 months ago
How to deal with interruptions
Episode 48
How can you handle an interruption to your work, especially if it is an urgent request for help? We discuss how to do this without derailing your pla…
3 years, 11 months ago
Should I write this weird code or is there a Laravel feature I can use instead?
Episode 47
We walk through a recent experience where Joel was about to "burn down the world," as Aaron calls it. Instead, after doing a little exploration of th…
4 years ago
Take time to look back and review
Episode 46
It feels good to finish a project, but before you move on, there are benefits to pausing and reflecting on what went well and what could have been be…
4 years ago
The benefits of testing, even under a deadline
Episode 45
We have to ship this feature in 2 weeks! Do we have time to test? In this episode we talk through this scenario and share some benefits of testing ev…
4 years, 1 month ago
When to calculate a value versus when to store it in the database
Episode 44
For some values, it can be tricky to know whether it's better to calculate it on the fly or when to calculate it once and store in the database. We t…
4 years, 1 month ago
Should I use an event/listener or a model observer?
Episode 43
We share a few rules that help guide us to determine when to manually fire an event versus when to wire up a model observer.
Make my phone buzz and do…
4 years, 2 months ago