In the most recent episode of the North Meets South podcast - Episode #28 - hosts Jacob Bennett and Michael Dyrynda talk about Laravel. More specifically they cover Eloquent functionality, client expectations, and packages.

In this episode, Jake and Michael talk about Eloquent observers and answer listener questions about managing client expectations and packages we use in our Laravel applications.

Other topics mentioned in this episode include Dash (the documentation tool), the "Supercharge Your Tinker Workflow" article and the Sentry package for Laravel. You can listen to this latest show either using the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3 directly for listening offline. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twitter to get the latest updates when new shows are released.

The Laravel News site has released the latest episode of it's podcast, episode #28, covering Laravel 5.3.18, Yarn, Leanpub and more.

In this episode, we discuss Yarn, Facebook's new JavaScript package manger, the new Laravel Links section, and lots of other random topics.

This is our last podcast episode for 2016 and we will be taking a break until next year.

Other topics mentioned also include Laravel Links, case sensitive filesystems in development and Powershell for Mac/Linux. You can listen to this latest episode either using the in-page player or by subscribing to their feed and getting this and other great episodes as they're released.

The PHPUgly podcast, with hosts Eric Van Johnson, Tom Rideout and John Congdon, has posted their latest episode today - Episode #28: Evan Almighty.

Topics mentioned in this new episode include:

• The San Diego PHP and Linux User Groups
• The release of Laravel Spark v2
• The benchmark for Laravel Shift's 1,000 application updated

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player on the main site or directly over on SoundCloud. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twitter for updates when the latest shows are released.

That Podcast, hosted by PHP community members Beau Simensen and Dave Marshall, has posted its latest episode - Episode #38: [Work, Work, Work].

Beau and Dave talk about some of their recent work efforts, Dave's first look at DynamoDB, other AWS services, migrating event streams, email integration with Context.io and the challenges of maintaining privacy with such systems.

Amazon Web Services topics include DynamoDB, SES and Lambda. Also mentioned are Monii and Context.io. You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3. If you enjoy the show be sure to also subscribe to their feed and get information on the latest shows as they're released.

The PHP Roundtable podcast, with host and PHP community member Sammy K Powers, has released their latest episode today - Episode #28: The Alcoholic & Unfit PHP Culture

The PHP community has its fair-share of devs struggling with alcohol & weight loss and it doesn't help that there is a strong culture around alcohol consumption at nerd events. For some, the bottle is just a fun weekend with nerds. For others, it's a vice & deep struggle affecting them both mentally and physically.

We'll be discussing the alcoholic culture in the PHP community as well as our struggle with weight loss.

This episode features a long list of guests too: Samantha Quiñones, Matt Frost, Dustin Uresk, Scott Arciszewski, Michelle Sanver, Daniel Noel-Davies, Jenny Wong and Jeremy Mikola. You can catch this latest episode either through the in-page video player or directly over on YouTube. If you enjoy the episode be sure to follow their RSS feed and follow them on Twitter.

The Laravel Podcast, with host Matt Stauffer and guests Taylor Otwell and Jeffrey Way, has posted their latest episode today: Episode 28: Documentation, JavaScript, & Conspiracy Theories.

In this episode, the crew discusses recent improvements to the Laravel documentation, Vue.js, ECMAScript 6, and a few conspiracy theories.

You can listen to this latest episode in a few different ways. You can either use the in-page audio player, download the mp3 or subscribe to their feed and get this and future episodes delivered directly to your reader of choice.

The PHP Town Hall podcast has posted their latest episode, the mashup with the Loosely Coupled podcast they did (it's here on their side) talking about their favorite open source projects.

In this episode, Ben and Phil join forces with Loosely Coupled to talk about Open Source, burn out and briefly discuss their favorite open source projects. Jeff was out of action for a lot of it due to unexpected wifi troubles (in San Francisco of all places) so he sadly did not get to take part as much as he would have liked.

There were also a few questions taken from the listening audience about dealing with overly reliant people, explaining OSS to non-tech people and the OSS "clauses" some employer put into their contracts. You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player, by downloading the mp3 or you can watch the live video recording posted on YouTube.

The /Dev/Hell podcast, as hosted by PHP community members Chris Hartjes and Ed Finkler, has posted their latest episode - Episode 28, "Canadian Twinkie Smuggler".

You can blame Chris’s tomfoolery for how crappy he sounds, because his computer pooped all over himself and he had to call in on his iPhone. Nevertheless, we were able to discuss in detail the smuggling of mass-produced pastries of the Twinkie and Tastykake varieties. We also get framework security in the context of recent Rails vulnerabilities, and how PHP developers seem to have a heightened awareness of potential vulnerabilities. Ed’s details his experiences starting a local user group, and then discusses his efforts to speak at developer/tech conferences about his struggles with mental illness.

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player, by downloading the mp3 directly or by subscribing to their feed and getting this and other recent episodes.