Developing With Style

So Codaset is being written in Ruby on Rails and not CakePHP. A bold decision I think, but a decision backed up by years of sitting on the fence when it came to Ruby and Rails, but also a little controversial, since I have been working with PHP and Cake for a long time now. [...]

I had this idea a while ago, and actually implemented it into a Cake project, but it was a bit hacky and required hacking the core. So I didn’t like it. But today, I had a need for this same functionality, so I had a little think about how I could implement it without hacking [...]

It’s been too long, but here’s another handful of nibbles for your CakePHP applications and development.
Plugin Server
After some great improved support for re-usable plugins in Cake 1.2, and Gwoo’s announcement mention at last years CakeFest in Florida; we are now starting to see some evidence of a fabled plugin server. The idea, is that after [...]

This will be a short edition of Cake Nibbles, and I suppose, a bit of a Christmas special.
CakePHP RC4 Released
First up, and the reason for this short, but special edition, is that last nights announcement of release candidate 4. Even though RC3 was announced as being the last RC before a stable version of CakePHP [...]

Since the announcement of the DebugKit plugin, and its source control taking place on Github, there have been a slew of Cake users placing their code under Git control, in particular, on Github. So I thought I would give you all a run down of the great and good in Cake/Git land.
DB Migrations
Oh come on! [...]