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Taylor Otwell ‏@taylorotwell 13h13 hours ago Now is probably as good a time as ever to announce that Spark will not be free. Spent 8 months working on it.

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@graham

Then few minutes later tweeted, "Closed Sublime text and decided not to open it". Lol.

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@jekinney I took that to mean 'coding is done'.

(at least I hope that's what he meant)

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@graham I hope so too. Any day now can't wait for Tayler to take my money.

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Looks like he's also doing a screen cast to show us all how it works!! Awesome stuff....

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Tweet from Taylor, rumoured to be Spark day:

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Converted from epoch that gives us Tue, 12 Apr 2016 22:14:33 GMT

Follow up tweet from Taylor, any guesses what it means?

4 b4 the views.

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I saw another tweet could be worth some speculation:

https://twitter.com/taylorotwell/status/714552485344452608

i haven't confirmed or denied it's per project... only that it's not subscription

so if it were to be per project, and its github repo / downloadable code - how would that work?

I'm sure he said somewhere else about trusting devs

I suppose time will tell

#sparkwatch #borednow

regards

l.

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Launch date to be announced tomorrow.

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Per launch is great. So you can buy once play around and if mess it up real bad or want to start over for a real project re-download. Fair enough.

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Any thoughts on the first 2 Spark laracasts?

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What colorscheme is Taylor using? ;D

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@graham it looks awesome from where I'm sitting. Very very excited and in fact, I'm gob smacked by the level of effort and detail he's gone to. It's amazing.

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I'll buy it on release day. For what, I don't know, but just to give him a thank you.

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Can't wait to get our hands on it. We've been working on a project for 2 months deliberately avoiding users/billing/teams so we can hopefully drop much of the functionality directly into a clean spark build.

Bring it on :)

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The first two videos were awesome, and according to Taylor's twitter, he's got a lot more to cover. I'm excited for the next videos, and I'm even more excited to take a look at his code to learn/adopt/pick at the things that he did.

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And it is $99 for a single site

$299 for multi-site

Do I splurge straight away??

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$ spark PHP Fatal error: Trait 'Laravel\SparkInstaller\InteractsWithSparkAPI' not found in /home/linux/work/spark-installer/src/RegisterCommand.php on line 15 $

Has anyone got the same error? What could it be ?

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SOLVED

mv src/InteractsWithSparkApi.php src/InteractsWithSparkAPI.php

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Installed :)

Happy Spark day everyone.

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@graham everything you hoped it would be? anything extra the laracasts haven't covered? i'll be taking a look this weekend but i'm keen to hear thoughts.

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@xirkus All I can tell you so far is it appears to install fairly painlessly :-)

It's early Friday evening, the Mrs has a work event tonight and I've just filled the coffee machine with fresh beans. I'll keep you posted :D

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