Over Engineered
by Chris Morrell
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Storing Files in the Database w/ Bogdan Kharchenko and Skyler Katz
Storing Files in the Database w/ Bogdan Kharchenko and Skyler Katz
About this podcast
A podcast where we explore unimportant programming questions (mostly PHP/Laravel/JavaScript) in extreme detail.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 34 episodes
- Storing Files in the Database w/ Bogdan Kharchenko and Skyler Katz · 1 h 9 min · Episode 33Sometimes you have files or other large chunks of data that you need to associate with a record in your database. It might be convenient to just store that as base64-encoded data…
- Kilopixel Retro w/ Ben Holmen + Joe Tannenbaum · 1 h 11 min · Episode 32At the beginning of August, after six years of working on it on-and-off, Ben Holmen took his Kilopixel project live. It's a 1000 pixel display, where each pixel has to be…
- (Actually good) browser testing w/ Nuno Maduro · 1 h 54 min · Episode 31Up until now, browser testing in Laravel has felt… bad. Dusk was a huge step over nothing, but it's been slow and flaky and just waiting to be replaced with something better. And…
- Fostering Community w/ Alex Hillman · 1 h 41 min · Episode 30Alex Hillman has been thinking about and actively supporting communities for decades. In this episode, Chris and Alex talk about lessons he's learned along the way that can help…
- Native PHP w/ Simon Hamp · 2 h 18 min · Episode 29Simon Hamp and Marcel Pociot have been working on NativePHP for a number of years, and Simon just surprised with world at Laracon EU with a NativePHP for Mobile announcement. In…
- The next era of Larabelles w/ Zuzana Kunckova · 1 h 20 min · Episode 28Zuzana Kunckova started Larabelles five years ago, and over that time it has grown into an important part of the Laravel community. In today's episode, Zuzana and Chris talk…
- PHP × NYC Chaos-Cast™ · 1 h 11 minWhat happens when you get a bunch of Laravel podcasters + a bunch of mics in a room? Chaos, apparently. Recorded live after PHP × NYC with Ben Holmen, John Drexler, Daniel…
- Running Small Teams w/ Dan Matthews & John Rudolph Drexler · 1 h 34 min · Episode 27There's lots of advice out there for running software teams, but much of it comes from large organizations with dozens or hundreds of developers. Smaller teams have different…
- Event Sourcery w/ Shawn McCool · 1 h 52 min · Episode 26Shawn McCool has been talking about event sourcing for years, and recently started a new series of streams on the topic. In this episode, Chris and Shawn talk about event…
- Design Patterns w/ Mary Perry · 1 h 15 min · Episode 25Design patterns can be very useful, but can also be weaponized as a way to "prove" that someone is doing something the "wrong" way. Mary has been thinking a lot about the good…
- Side Projects w/ Joe Tannenbaum · 56 min · Episode 24Joe Tannenbaum is thinking about starting a podcast about side projects. So we took an afternoon to talk through what that might look like.
- The Art of Pairing with Strangers w/ Ben Holmen · 60 min · Episode 23Ben Holmen started his Pair-amid scheme as an experiment in meeting new people and experiencing new code. He shared his calendar with the world, and booked pairing sessions with…
- ReactPHP + Event Loops w/ Len Woodward · 1 h 15 min · Episode 22ReactPHP is a low-level library for event-driven programming in PHP. It lets you write code that's much closer to the async/await style of JavaScript in PHP. In today's episode…
- Code standards w/ Matt Stauffer · 1 h 26 min · Episode 21What set two developers on a quest to build custom tooling to enforce their code style preferences? Today's episode is a story that starts with two independent projects—Tighten's…
- Burnout w/ Ian Landsman · 1 h 16 min · Episode 20Today we take a break from over engineering to talk about burnout. Both Chris and Ian have been working on the same products for multiple decades. We sit down to talk about that…
- Let's talk APIs w/ Steve McDougall · 1 h 42 min · Episode 19Steve McDougall (aka JustSteveKing) is known as the "API guy" on Twitter. In today's episode we start with the question, "what if the best option is just a single page app with a…
- Full Stack Javascript w/ Kelvin Omereshone · 1 h 14 min · Episode 18The internet has been talking (yelling?) about full-stack javascript a lot lately. In today's episode, we sit down and talk about what it means to be "full stack" and whether…
- Building prompts w/ Jess Archer · 1 h 50 min · Episode 17Jess Archer took something that was quite good—the Symfony console output features—and built something that was absolutely great: Laravel Prompts. In today's episode, we dig into…
- The Future of the Laravel Frontend w/ Taylor Otwell · 1 h 18 min · Episode 16Taylor Otwell has been finding ways to improve Laravel for over a decade, but has only more recently set his sights on the front-end side of things. In today's episode, we sit…
- Building for the command line w/ Joe Tannenbaum · 1 h 18 min · Episode 15Joe Tannenbaum took the internet by storm with his incredible SSH CLI "experiments." In today's episode, Chris and Joe sit down to get into the messy details of parsing ANSI…







