Interview with Mohamed Said, Laravel's First Employee

Get to know Mohamed Said in his first ever interview where we discuss how he got into programming, being Laravel's first ever employee, what it's like working with Taylor Otwell.

You can read the full episode transcript which includes time markers and links.

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Show links

• In Laravel 5.5 you can render mailables to the browser


• Laravel 5.5 adds support for email themes in mailables


• Running Dusk tests on Travis CI and CircleCI


• Laravel 5.4.17 is released


• Laravel migrate:fresh command


• Which Laravel helper do you use for your URLs?


• Laravel Forge PHP SDK

Tutorials and packages

• Laravel OPcache package


• Introduction to seeding data in testing


• Using Laravel's cache with query params


• Building a user invitation system with Laravel