On the Laravel News site they've announced the release of the videos from Laracon EU 2017 on YouTube - perfect for those that couldn't make the event this year.

Today, Laracon EU uploaded all of the speaker videos to YouTube and here is the link to the full playlist.

The playlist features 20 videos and is sure to keep you busy for a few days. Also, be sure and join the wait list for the 2018 event.

Sessions presented at this year's event included:

• Christopher Pitt - Monads in PHP
• Rizqi Djamaluddin - Bad UX is Not an Option
• Hannes Van De Vreken - Code review beyond code style
• Taylor Otwell - State of Laravel

You can check out the full playlist for these and more great sessions.

On the Laravel News site they've posted an article sharing a series of podcasts dubbed the "Road to Laracon" where hosts Jacob Bennett and Michael Dyrynda talked with Laracon US 2017 speakers and asked them to suggest one song to use in the playlist.

Next week is Laracon US, and Jacob Bennett and Michael Dyrynda have been interviewing many of the speakers on the podcast. As part of the interview, they’ve asked the speakers to pick a few of their favorite songs and put it together in a Spotify playlist.

It features twenty-three songs and is an hour and forty-three minutes of listening pleasure and I enjoy trying to match the song to the speaker.

If you'd like to hear the interviews with some of the speakers, they've linked to a few at the end of the post including Freek Van der Herten, Jack McDade and Laura Elizabeth.

Codecourse.com has released a video series walking you through the creation of a simple social network site with PHP, Laravel and Bootstrap.

[This tutorial shows you how to create] a social network built with Laravel and Bootstrap. Authenticate, add and accept friend requests, post to a timeline, reply to and like statuses.

The videos are pretty "bite sized" at just a few minutes each, but they walk you through all of the code you'll need to get the site up and running as well. There's 36 videos in the playlist but with the playlist on auto-play you'll go through them quickly.

Anthony Ferrara has posted his latest "Programming with Anthony" video episode today pattern is more of a behavioral structure, defining how objects interact with each other.

The Mediator Pattern is an extremely flexible and useful tool to help decouple your code and provide added flexibility in your applications. We'll explore the basic concept of a Mediator, some places you've used it and some things that you can do to improve upon the basic concept.

You can watch the video either in the post or over on YouTube. If you enjoy the episode, you should also consider the rest of the videos in the series, all available from this playlist.

With the demise of the muxtape service, a new option has popped up - the ability to run your own version with a PHP application called OpenTape. Lifehacker has posted a guide to getting this software set up and working.

Beloved music playlist hosting service Muxtape's gone offline to "sort out a problem with the RIAA," but if you've got some web server space, you can host, stream, and share your own digital music mixes Muxtape-style with newly-launched PHP web application Opentape.

It's not a direct copy, but it's pretty close (and pretty easy to get up and running). It'd PHP5 only, so if you're still living in the past and only have PHP4, you're out of luck. Their guide shows a sample installation on a Windows machine, but its not much of a stretch to follow along on a unix-based machine. You'll also need the curl extension to get some parts of it working - it's not required, though. They have a work-around for that too.

In a follow up to a previous post, Chris Hartjes asks once again "where are the good development tools for PHP?" This time, though, he thinks he's found just the tool he was looking for:

Cal Evans over at the Zend Developer Zone gave me a heads-up that he would be posting a tutorial on using Flex and PHP. I believe my exact words to him after about 10 minutes of playing with it was "this is FUCKING cool!". Which it definitely is.

He talks about what he needed to get started and how his first experience with creating an application went - a simple app up and running (from install to a finished app) in about 30 minutes.

For more information on Adobe's Flex, check out their website at Flex.org.

In a follow up to a previous post, Chris Hartjes asks once again "where are the good development tools for PHP?" This time, though, he thinks he's found just the tool he was looking for:

Cal Evans over at the Zend Developer Zone gave me a heads-up that he would be posting a tutorial on using Flex and PHP. I believe my exact words to him after about 10 minutes of playing with it was "this is FUCKING cool!". Which it definitely is.

He talks about what he needed to get started and how his first experience with creating an application went - a simple app up and running (from install to a finished app) in about 30 minutes.

For more information on Adobe's Flex, check out their website at Flex.org.

m. norway has found way to combine the popular XSPF web music player Flash application with the flexibility of RSS feeds via a simple PHP script.

He shows an example of the script that convers the RSS feed into a tracklist that the Flash mp3 player can understand. I also like his idea of using del.icio.us to roll a "make your own podcast" kind of thing with the RSS output from your links.

m. norway has found way to combine the popular XSPF web music player Flash application with the flexibility of RSS feeds via a simple PHP script.

He shows an example of the script that convers the RSS feed into a tracklist that the Flash mp3 player can understand. I also like his idea of using del.icio.us to roll a "make your own podcast" kind of thing with the RSS output from your links.