Merge pull request #15 from Laravel-Philippines/master

Added and rewrote some links; fixed up some sentences

Author: buonzz

_posts/01-04-01-Homestead.md

@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ anchor:  homestead
 
 ## Homestead {#homestead_title}
 
-Laravel is not only using Vagrant as the official development environment, but it also have it's own base box that you can use to start developing with Laravel. This base box is called "Homestead".
+Laravel is not only using Vagrant as the official development environment but also has its own base box called "Homestead". 
+You can use Homestead to start developing with Laravel without the hassle of setting up your local environment for Laravel.
 
-The instructions and usage of homestead can be found in [Official Documentation][homestead-docs].
+The instructions and usage of homestead can be found in the [Official Documentation][homestead-docs].
 
-[homestead-docs]: http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/homestead
+[homestead-docs]: http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/homestead

_posts/05-02-01-The-Basics.md

@@ -5,14 +5,20 @@ anchor:  the_basics
 
 ## The Basics {#the_basics_title}
 
-PLaravel has tons of overwhelming features. The following articles might be able to help you to be in the same "page" about why Laravel exists in the first place.
+Laravel has tons of features which might be overwhelming at first. 
 
-* [ Why it is using Composer?][li1]
+Here are some articles and resources that may be useful to get on the same page with Laravel.
+
+* [Composer: Part 1 – What & Why?][li1]
 * [Why use an autoloader? why just don't require the files?][li2]
-* [Before Laravel, CodeIgniter is the king of PHP framework. What happened?][li3]
+* [Why CodeIgniter over Laravel - 5 Things CodeIgniter cannot do without a rewrite?][li3]
 * [How to install Laravel in WAMP?][li4]
+* [Object-Oriented Bootcamp on Laracasts][li5]
+* [Laravel 5 from Scratch on Laracasts][li6]
 
 [li1]:http://nelm.io/blog/2011/12/composer-part-1-what-why/
 [li2]:http://www.sitepoint.com/autoloading-and-the-psr-0-standard/
 [li3]:https://philsturgeon.uk/blog/2012/12/5-things-codeigniter-cannot-do-without-a-rewrite
-[li4]:http://www.darwinbiler.com/how-to-install-laravel-on-wamp-for-beginners/
+[li4]:http://www.darwinbiler.com/how-to-install-laravel-on-wamp-for-beginners/
+[li5]:https://laracasts.com/series/object-oriented-bootcamp-in-php
+[li6]:https://laracasts.com/series/laravel-5-from-scratch/