Foreign Devs Podcast: Recent Episodes

Victor Gonzalez, Jani Gyllenberg

Two foreign developers discuss Laravel & PHP Development, the business of marketing, and more.

About Victor Gonzalez Victor manages marketing for one of the nation's fastest growing boat manufacturers, a role that has seen him honored with the MMA Award for the Best Website in the Boating Industry. After hours, Victor produces web development tutorials at Coder's Tape, along with paid courses for Udemy.

About Jani Gyllenberg Jani tackles business development and innovation at one of the nation's top ranking boat dealerships (where he and Victor originally met). In 2017, Jani was named one of Boating Industry Magazine's 40 Under 40. He can be found speaking his mind on Twitter @jani_gyllenberg or over at his nullthoughts Blog.

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  • Victor wins Best in Competition: MMA Neptune Awards 2020
  • New Coder's Tape Episodes: Coder's Tape on YouTube
  • Get up to 2 months of free hosting with promo code FOREIGNDEVS at Cloudways

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  • Book recommendation: Web Design. The Evolution of the Digital World 1990–Today
  • Jani's article on The problem with Virtual Boat Shows
  • The Simpsons Carton Studio (1996)

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  • Jani's video review (and fun on the water): https://nullthoughts.com/boats/2020/09/11/sportsman-302-review/
  • Coffee Recommendation (Beam Me Up Scotty! by Grassroots Coffee Company): https://www.grassrootscoffee.com/shop-grassroots-coffee-thomasville-ga/grassroots-coffee-thomasville-georgia-coffee-roaster-bean-me-up-scotty

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The duo discusses how their workloads have increased as both work to capture larger market shares and offset any possible market shrinkage for their companies, while tackling existing and high-priority projects.

Jani shares how he’s kept busy after hours, and Victor touches on the challenges of working 15+ hour days at the same desk between work for his company, Coder’s Tape, paid courses and open source projects.

Victor announces the highly successful launch of his new Scrimba Vue course: https://scrimba.com/course/gvue

Focusing on code quality over the functionality of software, Jani finds himself in a bind.

Victor shares a UI challenge and how the simplest solutions for the end user often require the most time and thought, especially when wanting to create something better functioning than what’s considered standard.

And in this episode's segment on gear, Victor equips himself with a new Mac Pro to aid with productivity.

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  • Imgix Image Processing: https://www.imgix.com
  • AWS Serverless Image Handler: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/serverless-image-handler/
  • Srcset in HTML5: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Multimedia_and_embedding/Responsive_images
  • Our official Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/foreigndevs
  • MasterClass: https://www.masterclass.com
  • Laravel 7 features: https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/releases

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  • Good to Great by Jim Collins: https://www.jimcollins.com/books.html#good-to-great
  • Rework by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson: https://basecamp.com/books/rework

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  • Sergio's photo that blew Jani away: https://www.instagram.com/p/B70_bK-Hza4/
  • Caleb Porzio (of the No Plans To Merge Podcast): https://twitter.com/calebporzio
  • Caleb's Laravel Livewire project: https://laravel-livewire.com

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  • The Rise of Amazon https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-rise-of-amazon/id1465767420?i=1000445047560

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  • Jani's Laravel Latest Relation package: https://github.com/nullthoughts/laravel-latest-relation
  • Taylor Otwell Tweets about custom casts for Eloquent: https://twitter.com/taylorotwell/status/1213652671611232257
  • Justin Jackson's Tweet on margin for the good of employees: https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1214391547925450752
  • Justin Jackson's Laracon 2019 talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfEBby1KRyU

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  • Peloton TV ad outrage: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/12/peloton-christmas-gift-controversy/603148/
  • Facebook Clone with Laravel, TDD, Vue & Tailwind CSS Udemy course by Victor: https://www.udemy.com/course/facebook-clone-with-laravel-tdd-vue-tailwind-css/
  • Laravel API Development & Vue JS SPA from Scratch Udemy course by Victor: https://www.udemy.com/course/laravel-api-development-vue-js-spa-from-scratch/
  • What's new in PHP 7.4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thGH8jYlQCc
  • Chevrolet's Website Refuses to Call the Silverado's 2.7-L Turbo Engine a 'Four-Cylinder': https://www.thedrive.com/news/30958/chevrolets-website-refuses-to-call-the-silverados-2-7-l-engine-a-four-cylinder

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  • Symfony Dom Crawler: https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/dom_crawler.html
  • iPhone 11 Pro Ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0VWwY6MR0k
  • An Avant Story by Audi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8gw8B939Eo
  • The Future is Built Commercial from Ford: https://www.ispot.tv/ad/dXqw/ford-the-future-is-built-featuring-bryan-cranston-t1
  • Embrace the Future Ads by Volvo: https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/volvo-orbits-the-earth-in-the-final-chapter-of-its-epic-time-twisting-trilogy/

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  • Amazon's printed holiday catalog: https://seortp.com/amazon-christmas-catalog/

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  • Algorithm examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o-kdjv7FD0

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  • Sam Adams Octoberfest: https://www.samueladams.com/our-beers/limited-release/marzen/octoberfest
  • Mailgun: https://www.mailgun.com
  • Laravel 6.4: https://laravel-news.com/laravel-6-4
  • Sublime Text: https://www.sublimetext.com
  • VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com
  • Tailwind CSS: https://tailwindcss.com

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  • Laravel whereLatestRelation macro for the latest record in a HasMany relationship: https://nullthoughts.com/development/2019/10/08/dynamic-scope-on-latest-relationship-in-laravel/
  • Using MySQL Views for Intermediate Tables in Laravel: https://nullthoughts.com/development/2019/10/09/dynamic-scope-on-latest-relationship-in-laravel-part-2-using-mysql-views/
  • Hacktoberfest: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com

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  • Victor's visit to the print shop: https://nullthoughts.com/foreign-devs/2019/10/17/victor-visits-a-printer/
  • https://www.forbes.com/sites/warrenshoulberg/2019/03/21/is-victorias-secret-discontinued-catalog-part-of-its-sales-problem/amp/

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  • Distinct
    • Website archive: https://nullthoughts.com/distinct
    • Product video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGdFRuz47yI

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  • Jani's blog
    • https://nullthoughts.com/
  • Victor's channel
    • https://coderstape.com/
  • Fast Boat that Jani Drove
    • https://www.sportsmanboatsmfg.com/open/282-Center-Console
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCVzLTxhLbU
  • JSON Column Types
    • https://nullthoughts.com/development/2019/01/29/laravel-json-column-types/
  • Distinct Displays
    • https://www.instagram.com/marketdistinctly/
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGdFRuz47yI

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  • Jani's blog
    • https://nullthoughts.com/
  • Victor's channel
    • https://coderstape.com/
  • Lode, A universal GUI for unit testing
    • https://lode.run/