Check out the "Skills" navigation dropdown at laracasts.com.

That query string lesson you linked to is just some code I whipped up. There's no pattern in place there, other than "construct simple code." The former lesson you linked to is about form objects, which a number of developers have written about. Pick up a general design patterns book, and do your best to work through it. They're a lot to take in, but you'll pick up some tips. Just be careful of taking them too far. Design patterns are meant to help you...they're not intended to lock you into uncomfortable architectures.

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No - but only because I've already built that functionality. If I were building Laracasts from scratch today, I would use Spark. Yes. Taylor is recording a series himself. It'll be available to watch the day Spark is released. Of course! I'm also looking forward to studying the source code. Always fun to see how others structure things.

Maybe... My pal Chris Fidao has a site called Servers for Hackers, where he digs into this sort of material. https://serversforhackers.com/

Don't get too overwhelmed. Only a very small fraction of people are able to understand these concepts. The rest quit. Stick with it long enough, and I promise you'll be part of the former group. The "dog at the keyboard" meme is so funny, because even developers with over a decade's worth of experience relate to it.

Don't use big words to sound smarter. Don't assume the viewer knows something they don't. Don't waste the viewer's time. Get to the point. Don't paste in massive blocks of code. Write it out, and explain what each line does. Show some level of passion for what you're teaching.

Dave always wears a suit to the office, so we know it wasn't the weekend. How about this one: in Back to the Future 3, when Marty goes back in time to rescue Doc, he rips the fuel lodge thing and runs out of gas, right? So the whole movie ends up being about how to get the car up to 88 miles an hour. Why didn't they just get the gas out of the other Delorean? There should have been two version of the car at that point: The one that Doc involuntarily gets sent to 1885 in. The one that Marty uses to travel back and rescue him. Or how about this one... how did Doc get sent back to 1885 in the first place? He got struck by lightning, but the car wasn't going 88 miles an hour... I think I read somewhere that the lightning strike spiraled the Delorean up to 88mph. That's why you see the car disappear, with circular smoke streaks in its wake.

Do I have plans to build something with Spark? Or like Spark? If the former, yes. Taylor is going to record a Laracasts series on Spark, and I imagine that'll be available to watch the same day.

Sure, I'll try to do that soon.