The Laravel News site has posted an interview with Justin Jackson, one of the speakers at the upcoming Laracon US conference and creator of Marketing for Developers (among other things).

Laracon US is still a few months away and this year it has an awesome line up of speakers. One of the new faces is Justin Jackson, who is what you could call a habitual maker. He launches more products than I have ideas.

Justin is a former Product Manager and has now transitioned into a full-time product person. He builds products such as Marketing for Developers, runs the MegaMaker podcast, and sells a book named Jolt! What follows is a quick interview with Justin to share some insights into making products and what to expect during his Laracon talk.

In the interview Justin answers questions about his background, his talk at Laracon US and launching products.

The Laravel News podcast has posted their latest episode today - Episode #21: Laracon Live Stream, Laravel 5.3 Collection Where Changes.

In this episode, we discuss Laracon Live Streaming, the new advanced where for Collections, and a few new apps and packages.

Other topics mentioned include the release of the first stable version of the OctoberCMS, the Laravel Password package and an article about anonymous functions. You can listen to this latest show either using the in-page audio player or by subscribing on iTunes or Google Play and also get future episodes as they're released.

The Laravel News site has a new post today sharing the full schedule announcement for this year's Laracon conference (happing in Louisville, Kentucky July 27th through the 29th).

Laracon just announced the preliminary schedule for this year’s conference. Just as in the past, it leaves ample time for hanging out and meeting others interested in the framework.

Sessions for this year's conference include:

• "Test Driven Laravel" (Adam Wathan)
• "Servers For Hackers" (Chris Fidao)
• "PHP 7" (Zeev Suraski)
• "Tests Should Tell A Story" (Matthew Machuga)
• "YAGNI With Laravel" (Jason McCreary)
• "Lumen, Guzzle, & Swagger" (Jeremy Lindblom)

You can find more information about the conference and pick up tickets from the main conference website. There are discounts available for groups of 3 or more too.

The Laravel News site has posted an announcement about some of the latest additions to the Laracon.us schedule for this year's event.

Laracon.us scheduled for July 27-29, in Louisville Kentucky has announced nine speakers for the event.

These speakers include Taylor Otwell (creator of Laravel), Zeev Suraski of Zend, Adam Wathan from Tighten Co. and Amanda Folson, developer evangelist at PagerDuty. If you're interested in joining this group and would like to submit your own ideas for sessions, the call for submissions is still open for now. If you're just interested in the conference and want more information (or to get tickets) you can check out the main conference site.

On the Laravel News site they've posted an announcement about the release of the Laracon US schedule for their 2015 event (happening August 11th and 12th).

Laracon US will be held next month in Lousiville KY and time is running out to get a ticket. Currently, 350+ have been sold and will be the biggest Laracon yet. The full schedule has now been posting on the Laracon site and the topics sound outstanding.

The list of sessions for this year's event include:

• Matt Stauffer on Leveraging Laravel
• Adam Wathan on Chasing “Perfect”
• Jeffrey Way Things Laravel Made Me Believe
• Brian Webb on Open Source and Company Culture
• Yitzchok Willroth with Talmudic Maxims to maximize your growth as a developer

This year's event will also feature "Artisan Jeopardy" hosted by Jeremy Mikola, one session each day. If you're interested in attending, you can pick up your tickets now.

On the Laravel News site today there's an announcement posted about the launch of the Laracon 2015 conference websites for both editions, in the United States and in Europe.

Today both the Laracon.us and Laracon.eu conference sites have been launched. Both sharing the same style of branding and logo. The US conference will be held in Kentucky on August 11-12, and the EU in Amsterdam on August 25-26. Early bird pricing is available for both and the speaker lineup will be announced at a later time.

The Early Bird tickets for each even come in at just a bit over $300 USD and no schedules have been posted, but that's a great price for either of these two-day events. Each site also has links to subscribe to a mailing list related to the event so you can get the latest updates as they're released.