Luke Towers

Arrived at @LaraconUS, have stickers and a limited number of @usewintercms challenge coins, come see me if you want some!

@jigar_dhulla @laraveljobs @nativephp Now I have a reason to play with NativePHP mobile 😂

@laraveljobs @TheLukeTowers @nativephp No mobile app for @laraveljobs yet? 👀

Big thanks to @TheLukeTowers for taking over maintenance of the Larajobs @nativephp desktop app! github.com/LukeTowers/lar…

@ShaneDRosenthal @nativephp Always fun hanging out with Shane!

Just spent a couple hours with @TheLukeTowers hacking at code and eating tacos. Got the android side of the god method started for @nativephp v2!

@joshcirre Take a look at @usewintercms! Let me know if you have any questions or want some recommendations on getting started with it; it's deliberately basic out of the box with its true power & flexibility showcased by its incredibly powerful plugin & theming system 😉

I’m recording a video seeing what modern Wordpress actually looks like and how it compares to other options. Other than Ghost and Statamic, what other Wordpress alternatives should I look at from a developers perspective?

@jesseleite85 @BenhuraT @joshcirre The page just lists people that have received a Winter CMS Challenge coin (yours was #84; gave it to you at Laracon US 2023 for your contributions to Statamic as a fellow Laravel CMS developer 😂) Hope to see you in Denver at #LaraconUS again!

@BenhuraT @joshcirre Odd side note… I feel honoured to be listed as contributor on Wintercms’ coin page …but I definitely never contributed to Wintercms. I wonder what they mean by ‘contributor’? 👀😅 wintercms.com/coin

So many cool new features in this release with lots more to come! (yes, including the marketplace 😂)

We have now made version 1.2.8 of Winter available for download, with a new error log viewer, default views for backend controllers, and new field types and list column types to increase flexibility of the Backend. Check out our release post here: wintercms.com/blog/post/wint… ❄️🚀

@_PrestaSafe @DaniellHemmati @statamic @octobercms What about @usewintercms?

@DaniellHemmati @statamic @octobercms But now i’m considering Filament as a CMS…

Between @statamic and @octobercms, which one have you used, and why do you prefer it over the other? I'm planning to use one of them for my next project and would love to hear your thoughts on which one is better and why.

🚨 Hiring a Junior Web Developer (Contract Part-Time, Remote, Canada 🇨🇦) ✅ Paid mentorship ✅ Real projects ✅ Open source contributions (Winter CMS) 💸 $18–50/hr Build your skills while shipping real work. Apply here → winter.luketowers.ca/junior-web-dev…

@cljwebdev @chrisayech Check out @usewintercms! Let me know if you have any questions, we have a very active Discord & host weekly office hours for anyone interested.

@chrisayech What is a good Laravel CMS?

Working on a PHP WordPress plugin - I started coding with PHP.

@marcelpociot @sir_brian_d Will we be able to customize the underlying commands that are called? @usewintercms has some tweaks to the defaults that handle additional tasks within the CMS context.

@sir_brian_d Don't worry. You will be able to "detach" it for easier access (if you want to). But it will also be available in the site details view

we must ship

@marcelpociot Recent code review of mine found a firstOrCreate used to avoid inserting duplicate data on a high traffic endpoint but wasn't using the returned value so was able to halve queries by just inserting and using the db constraints to avoid duplicates

I could use your help gathering some data for my upcoming Laracon EU talk. If you ever had a slow Laravel application/slow request/slow command/etc. - what was the reason for it? Would be great to get as many replies as possible. Please retweet for reach 🙂

@damsfx A more frequent cycle is definitely the goal, life just keeps throwing obstacles in the way 😂

@TheLukeTowers Thanks for this release! We're hoping for a closer cycle, even though I know that nothing is easy when you have to reconcile everything.

Took a while, but there's some pretty nice stuff in this release. Check it out!

@augusvgils @_duncanmcclean @Jamesking56 @statamic @WordPress @augusvgils have you tried out @usewintercms yet?

@_duncanmcclean @Jamesking56 @statamic @WordPress For my more technical projects I already use Laravel and Filament so I would love to have a good CMS system with Laravel as a backbone. And for me @statamic is the frontrunner on Laravel based CMS’s but still not able to satisfy my customers needs.

I think @statamic could potentially become the @WordPress replacement for people who are already used to Laravel for the bigger stuff

@jkudish @ninjaparade @LaravelLivewire I believe the vapor js library includes the logic for streaming the uploads to S3. Check the Winter.DriverAWS plugin for how we do it in @usewintercms: github.com/wintercms/wn-d…

@ninjaparade @LaravelLivewire That’d be awesome. Let me know what’s the best way to connect :)

And here is the @LaravelLivewire uploader completely unleashed uploading 60 images (around 3.5GB)

@PovilasKorop @usewintercms @PovilasKorop one thing of note, the backend plugin page currently installs plugins from as they were frozen when we forked, highly recommend you refer to github.com/wintercms/awes… and use composer to install plugins for now, we're actively working on improving that

@PovilasKorop @usewintercms The main reason I went with Winter as the name despite it being my least favourite season is literally just because it was easy for me to use a snowflake svg generator to create the logo, and I needed a name and logo quickly to establish the project 😂

Trying out @UseWinterCMS Not sure about the call-to-action button on their homepage. Not very motivating. I prefer Summer and warmth :) *sips tea as Autumn evening gets colder*

@tuarrep_dev @PovilasKorop Winter does support Laravel 11, it's on a separate branch and it's just waiting for me to finish 1.2.7 before releasing 1.3 😜

@PovilasKorop So, IMO, October CMS and Winter CMS are disqualified

First random fact from Laravel CMS market. - Statamic and Twill: Laravel 11 - October CMS and Winter CMS (which is a fork of October): Laravel 9 In general, I realized that *proper* review of all those systems is much more complex than I thought. Will still find the angle.

@PovilasKorop @ssmusoke Have you seen our web installer? github.com/wintercms/web-…

@ssmusoke That was just the first impression, the first factor when installing. There will be obviously many more angles. But, judging from first impression, no Laravel CMS is even remotely close to WP ease of install and quick start. Looks like all Laravel CMSs were created for devs.

@PovilasKorop I don't know of any specific timelines but I know they actively work on the project so I imagine it's coming. From what I recall with our support for Laravel 11 it's not that big of an upgrade so it's probably more of a when it's asked for by enough people sort of situation.

@TheLukeTowers Great! Do you know any plans for October to support Laravel 11? (sorry, too lazy/busy to research it myself lol)