We talk about upgrading a rather large application from Laravel 5.1 up to Laravel 6 using the paid Laravel Shift services, and covering the reasons why we didn't upgrade sooner, backporting woes, the shift process and how we tested it all too!

If you're interested in more about Laravel Shift, check out their website at https://laravelshift.com.

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We have a confession. We had a beautiful (ok, maybe just good) episode 8 lined up a few months ago all nicely recorded with our friend Luke again and it should have just been an easy one to release.

But no. Real life stuff gets in the way, the world endures a pandemic, and work goes crazy. So... apologies. This is much later than planned, and we now know much more about PHP 8 (and its even been released early, unlike this episode!).

But we didn't want to deny you the pleasure of hearing Chris, Joel and Luke once again, so we present a slightly late PHP 8 episode 8. (And that rhymes too...)

We promise we'll be back soon with a fresh new episode too!

We are back once again with a special guest Luke Renfrew as we catch up on life after previously working with Chris and Joel

We cover off changing teams and jobs, coding standards, using new tech, documentation and application design, life outside of an agency and technical debt

(Apologies for the background noise at the beginning too, we tried hard to clean it up but it should calm down after a minute or so!)

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Catchup, job titles and labelling developers, kubernetes and virtual working...

Episode 6 (or Season 2 Episode 1 as Chris wants to call it as its been a while...) is now out and includes:

• What's happened over the last few months
• Lockdown and keeping ourselves busy
• Developer job titles
• Labelling developers and tieing to languages
• Kubernetes
• Virtual working and etiquette

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A bit of a special episode covering Chris' conversion from Google Android to an Apple iPhone and Watch

We discuss why he changed, the benefits and goodies and a few bad points too

If you're not much of an Apple fan you can skip this episode and we'll be back next time with some more development and devops!

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PHP 7.1 End of Life, PHP 7.4, the new Laravel Ignition error handler, PHP-Plus and Docker...

Episode 4 is packed with PHP goodness, including:

• PHP 7.1 nearing end of life

• Ignition Error Handler
• PHP Plus and Pre Process
• Docker Development Update

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Links are in the topic bullet points above!

P++, Laravel 6, Inertia.js, Burnout and Developer access to servers...

We didn't give up yet... (although it's a touch later than we'd like!) - but here's episode 3, including topics such as:

• PHP's P++ RFC

• Laravel 6
• Inertia.js
• Burnout and Fatigue
• Developer access to servers

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Links are in the topic bullet points above!

How we launched, Laravel Vapor rumours, Valet, Valet Plus and Docker, and more VSCode...

In our second show, we talk a little about our journey to launch before getting on to the juicy tech stuff such as:

• Our trials and tribulations of actually launching a podcast
• Some bits about how we made our FTL site
• Laravel Vapor rumours before Laracon US
• Valet, Valet Plus and Docker for local development
• More VSCode (sorry!) including Chris' plugins for the show

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Show notes:

Chris’ plugins for the show

PHPUnit Test Explorer for Visual Studio Code
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=recca0120.vscode-phpunit

Other useful links

Wavesurfer.js Audio Player
https://wavesurfer-js.org

Laracon US
https://laracon.us

Laravel Vapor (spoiler: it's out now and we guessed right...)
https://vapor.laravel.com

Valet for Mac
https://github.com/laravel/valet

Valet Plus for Mac
https://github.com/weprovide/valet-plus

VS Code in the browser, IDE Plugins, iPad Pros, JetBrains, Laravel and tmpfs…

In our first ever show, we talk a little about ourselves, why we’re called Failed To Launch, before getting on to the juicy tech stuff such as:

• Running VS Code in the browser (https://coder.com and https://github.com/cdr/code-server
• IDE Plugins (find the recommendations below!)
• iPad Pro for Development, Apple, Google and Privacy
• JetBrains - The State of Developer Ecosystem 2019 (https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2019/)
• A little about PHP, Laravel, Frameworks and Security
• Using tmpfs to speed up CI testing with sqlite files

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Show notes:

Chris’ Visual Studio Code Plugins

Intelephpense - personally the best intelligence for PHP
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bmewburn.vscode-intelephense-client

PHP file types - add some useful right click menu items for creating certain PHP files
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=fetzi.php-file-types

Better PHPUnit - gives a easy way to run tests in the correct context of your cursor
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=calebporzio.better-phpunit

Chris’ PhpStorm Plugins

Deep-assoc-completion - gives some really nice completion for array keys and other objects
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9927-deep-assoc-completion

Laravel - gives nice completion and click through for views and routes
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7532-laravel

Stastistic - to get some interesting stats about your projects
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/4509-statistic

Joel's tmpfs RAM disk

Et voila - /mnt/ramdisk is now running from your RAM, and you can tweak how big it is via the size value