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Interview with Taylor Otwell: 6 Lessons Learned From Creating Laravel

Jacob Herrington (he/him) on September 18, 2019

A few weeks ago, I had the good fortune to meet Taylor Otwell, the creator of a massively popular web framework called Laravel. Taylor has built h...
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alexhackney

As someone who has worked for Taylor on some Laracon projects, my experience with him has always been an incredibly nice guy and obviously very intelligent. I work in Laravel at my day job and am so grateful for the work he has put in. Anytime I can get advice from him it has served me well. Thanks for this great interview.

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Glad you enjoyed it, Alex!

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Aschwin Wesselius

Thanks for sharing these highlighted lessons.

I've met Taylor two times. Both times he was indeed very approachable and open for opinion or knowledge sharing. A very aimable guy.

I can't access the podcast somehow. It complains about not having a valid SSL certificate.

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Interesting! I just tested it on a few machines and it seems to be working, but a little slow. It could be an issue with Transistor. I'll keep an eye on it, thanks for the warning!

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Ted Ngeene

I've always admired Taylor for the framework that he built. It has really helped php gain it's reputation

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Jonathan Zarate

Taylor is a Crack!

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Mohammad Fazel

Thanks for sharing this great talk!

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

I'm glad you enjoyed it Mohammad!