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A developer, a devops guy and a microphone. How could it possibly fail? We talk about tech, development, life, the universe and (probably) everything in between

Chris Normansell and Joel Stanford

  • Dec 7, 2020 LATEST EPISODE
  • monthly NEW EPISODES
  • 59m AVG DURATION
  • 9 EPISODES


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The Shifty One: Upgrading Laravel

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2020 74:23


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'...

Episode 8 with PHP 8 (and this is late)

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2020 45:26


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 e...

And then there were three...

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2020 58:08


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...

AKA Season 2 Episode 1

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2020 64:31


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...

Apple: The Forbidden Fruit Special

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2019 46:49


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...

The Future of PHP

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2019 52:59


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 Develop...

Burnout Paradise

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2019 66:35


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 Burnou...

Yay we didn't fail!

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2019 58:09


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 actuall...

Have we failed yet?

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2019 69:36


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 th...

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