​Lately in the CraftCMS world... Craft Kint​ enables powerful PHP debugging in Craft templates. Papertrail​ enables Craft templates and plugins to publish events to a live, aggregated log feed. Flexibility​ provides a robust polyfill that enables Flexbox directives in legacy browsers​. And, Pixel & Tonic's Craft Case Studies​ show that CraftCMS is being adopted and trusted in big-name, high-stakes projects.

Ep. 5 — Debugging tools, a Flexbox polyfill, and Craft Case Studies

Lately in the CraftCMS world... Craft 2.6 brings lots of new goodies: Eager loading for elements, a new Charts library, better link controls in Rich Text editor fields, customizable Client account permissions, and much more!

Ep 6. — Craft 2.6 is here! Eager loading! Rich Text links! Lange deutsche Wörter!

Recently in the CraftCMS world... Craft now utilizes eager loading on the element index pages for a much faster CP experience. Template Modes are the new template paths. Straight Up Craft added elastic search for plugins, and craftplug.in launched. PicPuller is back! Printmaker got an upgrade; PDFs are now emailable.

Ep. 7 — Eager loading in the CP, template modes, deprecation errors, PDF emailing, and more!

Ep. 8 — Andrew's birthday presents to everybody, Solspace Calendar, & COME TO GEEUP!

Recently in the Craft CMS world... ImageMagick (used by many Craft installs) has a security vulnerability. Michael & Andrew talk about the details and emphasize the importance of keeping your software up-to-date. We also talk about some emerging security best practices for Craft CMS as well as a new security audit plugin Sherlock.

Ep. 9 — ImageTragick, CraftCMS security best practices, and Sherlock

Lately in the CraftCMS world... Build 2.6.2791, Craft's first ever critical update, addresses a clever template injection vulnerability. Pixel & Tonic released a fix in less than 24 hours from initial disclosure, and you should definitely make sure you've updated. In this episode, Brad Bell walks us through how the exploit works and how they patched it.

Ep. 10 — Behind the scenes on Craft's first critical update, w/ Brad Bell

Recently in the CraftCMS world... PT has ported all the 2.5 and 2.6 functionality to the 3.x branch, which means Craft 3 beta is coming in hot. We talk about how Yii 2 is the focus for the 3.0 release, and why this is awesome.

Ep. 11 — Craft 3 is back in action, and Yii 2 is AWESOME

Recently in the CraftCMS world... Pixel & Tonic announced that Craft 3 will support multi-site setups by expanding the concept of locales into "sites."

Ep. 12 — Multi-Site features coming to Craft 3

Recently in the CraftCMS world... Michael and Andrew have been talking and writing about AMP — and Craft is the perfect CMS for implementing AMP content! Solspace released Freeform. Toronto and Melbourne have upcoming Meetups. Michael attempts to speak 'Strayan; Andrew is jealous.

Ep. 13 — AMP, Freeform, Melbourne/Toronto meetups, and 'Straya

Recently in the CraftCMS world... The inaugural Dot All conference was a big success. Pixel & Tonic announced some exciting things: the Craft 3 GA release date (4/4/18), new licenses, a CKEditor 5 fieldtype, and more. Michael and Andrew talk about the talks they liked, their takeaways from the conference as a whole, and how they don't want to do anything except hack on Craft 3 stuff 'til April. (n.b. Michael had pants on for the entire duration of this recording.)

Ep. 15 — #dotall2017 Recap

Short conversations where we help you keep up with the going-on of the CraftCMS world (and web development in general) by highlighting stuff that happened that we think is worth a look.

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