Eric L. Barnes

Eric is the creator of Laravel News and has been covering Laravel since 2012.

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Showcase Your PhpStorm Expertise on LinkedIn

JetBrains has partnered with LinkedIn Connected Apps to let developers display a usage-based proficiency badge for PhpStorm and other JetBrains IDEs d...

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Watch the Teaser for 'The Story of PHP' Documentary

CultRepo has released a teaser for The Story of PHP, a JetBrains-sponsored documentary featuring Taylor Otwell, Fabien Potencier, Nikita Popov, and mo...

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How We Cached Laravel News at the Edge with Fast Laravel

Jason McCreary joined the Laravel Creator Series to walk through how we used his Fast Laravel practices and Cloudflare to cache Laravel News, a high-t...

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Laracon US 2026 Reveals Its Full Speaker Lineup

Laracon US 2026 has announced its complete speaker lineup for July 28-29 in Boston, headlined by Taylor Otwell, Aaron Francis, Nuno Maduro, and Kent C...

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The State of PHP 2026 Survey Is Now Open

JetBrains and The PHP Foundation have launched the first State of PHP survey, gathering data on how PHP developers work, what tools they use, and wher...

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Laravel Cloud Adds Scale-to-Zero and Spending Limits

Laravel Cloud is rolling out Scale-to-Zero Flex compute that wakes the full stack in under 500ms, plus a new $5 Starter plan and hard monthly spending...

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Laracon AU 2026 Announces Full Speaker Lineup, Schedule, and Workshops

Laracon AU has officially unveiled its full 2026 schedule, including all speakers, talks, and workshops for this year's event.

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Malware Blocking and Dependency Policies in Composer 2.10

Composer 2.10 adds malware blocking for Packagist.org packages, a new dependency policy configuration system, and several security-focused changes for...

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The PHP Foundation Launches an Ecosystem Security Team

The PHP Foundation has received a grant from Alpha-Omega to start a dedicated Ecosystem Security Team, with Volker Dusch leading the effort as the AI...

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Moat: A Security Review for Your GitHub Account

Moat is a new tool from Nuno Maduro that reviews the security posture of a GitHub user, organization, or repository and reports settings that fall sho...

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Frontend Nation 2026 Returns June 3-4 with Laravel in the Lineup

Frontend Nation 2026 is back June 3-4 as a free, two-day online event covering web development and AI. Laravel is named in the framework lineup, with...

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Manage Laravel Cloud Deployments Inside PhpStorm

PhpStorm just shipped a new Laravel tool window that lets you manage and troubleshoot Laravel Cloud deployments without leaving the IDE.

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