We have released the source code of this website! You can check out the repository containing a mirror copy of this website: https://github.com/CodepadME/laravel-tricks to create your own websites like Laravel-tricks. It uses PSR-2 coding standards, a ton of libraries and packages and is a good resource to take a look into.
If you need to sprinkle in some caching without building a bunch of Repositories. I've found this base Model and Service Provider very helpful.
For updates:
https://gist.github.com/danrichards/de22efa41b533d81fa1ec15f42cf64f5
If you receive any error message like below after upgrading to Laravel 4.2, you should modify your queue config:
production.ERROR: Undefined index: encrypt
Add 'encrypt' => true, to config of Iron