I am excited to announce the a beta of the next version of the popular database Migrations shell for CakePHP 1.2. It’s a little later than expected (I wanted a release candidate out by now) due to a certain muppet who didn’t commit his changes to SVN!
Take a look at the ChangeLog, and you will see a few long needed changes. The most notable being the ones discussed earlier. Here’s the rundown of what you can find in the beta…
Back in February in sunny Orlando, I gave a presention on why and how one should use CakePHP Migrations. I think the presentation went down well, but when it came to the Q&A at the end of the session, a few issues were raised that - quite honestly - I hadn’t actually thought about. It’s not that I didn’t know about them, it’s just that I never came across them to make them a problem for me. But since I began to actually use Migrations in a team of developers, I have come to understand some issues that could potentially be a deal breaker for some teams and users.
Yes, it’s another release, but just a small one. Grab it from its Google code repo
The main change is the support of Cake’s UUID column naming. By default Migrations will use normal auto-increment ID columns. If you want to use the UUID columns, then you just need to set $use_uuid = true.
In anticipation of CakeFest and my pending presentation at the event, I am releasing version 3.6 of Migrations and 3.4 of the Fixtures shell.
We got some nice new features in this release and I will be showcasing all of them in my presentation on Wednesday afternoon. The main change is the integration of Daniel Vecchiato’s YAMMY shell.
As well as this new release, I thought it would be a good idea to give Migrations a proper home, so I have created a Google Code project at http://code.google.com/p/cakephp-migrations/
All new releases will now be available from there. I also added some more documentation both within the download package and on the wiki. I will continue to post here.
So now onwards and upwards with the presentation. Any body got any tips for a good one?
Well, it’s official, I have been invited to give a presentation at CakeFest over the pond in Orlando, Florida in February. And I just sent an email back to Gwoo to confirm my attendance.
My presentation will be called “Cleaner development with database migrations” and will be totally wicked! 
So let me know if any of you are planning on attending. I would love to meet you all and catch up.
