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Hi, my name is Wayne Ashley Berry and I work with Chris at Joe Public where we write business critical software day in and day out. I’ve been writing software professionally for years… Chris is the guy I go to when Google doesn’t have the answers.

What I love about Chris’s work ethic is that he continually pushes the limits of software, frameworks and languages but then manages to hold back and use simple and understandable concepts.

B.B. King once said “Don’t use the song to show off your skills, use your skills to show off the song.”, Chris is like that Jazz musician who you know could out-play you with one hand but finds immense joy in playing four chord pop tracks.

Each case study in this book comes from hard earned experience. Consider each chapter years of experience, sleepless nights and stressful deadlines distilled into a set of best practices, common sense and good advice.

If you’re looking to use Laravel, or even just PHP, for real-world projects then consider this book worth more that its file-size in gold.