Taylor Otwell gives a practical talk on building Artisan commands in Laravel, covering basic command creation, dependency injection, and queuing. He demonstrates how to create custom commands, work with the Laravel queue system using different drivers like Beanstalkd, and shares upcoming features like a new debugging command for Laravel 4.1. The talk emphasizes writing reusable code by properly structuring commands and queue handlers.

The talk covers several Laravel secrets and internal workings, focusing on exception handling, model attributes/relationships, and event handling. The speaker demonstrates how Laravel's exception handler works, explains the order of operations for model attribute access, and shows how to leverage Laravel's command events system for adding custom output to artisan commands.

The talk covers several Laravel secrets and internal workings, focusing on exception handling, model attributes/relationships, and event handling. The speaker demonstrates how Laravel's exception handler works, explains the order of operations for model attribute access, and shows how to leverage Laravel's command events system for adding custom output to artisan commands.