Jack reads the news and interviews Mike Bronner while Eric takes a much needed week off.

• Eric sent out his 100th episode of the Laravel News Newsletter!
• Interview with Mike Bronner (@mikebronner) who shares his experiences being one of the first users to get Spark into production.
• Mike talked about larachat live @larachatlive that meet Thursdays at 7pm CST
• ViewJS 2.0
• PHP RFC: Pipe operator

Book updates:

• Easy Laravel 5 Book and companion Website
• Laravel 5.2 for beginners by Bill Keck
• CodeSmart by Dayle Rees
• Working With Forge Servers -by Jack Fruh & Friends

Tutorials:

• Generate Fake Localized data with laravel
• Tweet Streaming With laravel by Daniel Abernathy
• Using SparkPost for Transactional emails with Laravel
• Run tests inside your deploy script
• EcmaScript 6 Crash Course
• Conditionally adding to Laravel Query Builder

Packages:

• BeautyMail
• Laravel Generators
• Laravel Friendships
• UUID generator
• Spatie Laravel Newsletter Package