So who is Developing With Style?
My name is Joel Moss, a web developer and all round nice guy, living in Manchester, England. I am currently working full time for ShermansTravel.com, but I fill whatever spare time I have with lots of good and wholesome "stuff"! Like developing my own ideas; such as Tooum, contributing to the excellent CakePHP framework, and doing more work for ShermansTravel.
So this is my blog - my soap box! Here I attempt to share my likes, my dislikes, and my opinions. As well as providing some occasional respite from the daily crap we all endure. Enjoy ;)
May 5th, 2008 by Joel
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.
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April 22nd, 2008 by Joel
If you haven’t already read, Gwoo has just made an official announcement on the state of the CakePHP project and when we can expect a 1.2 final release.
As mentioned in my last post, the management has changed slightly:
The evolving team will still include the core team, with me as Project Manager helping to usher in new developers and provide opportunity for more people to get involved, PhpNut acting in an advisor’s role, ensuring that the right code gets implemented and more people learn the magic of CakePHP, Nate taking the lead role in the implementation of the core code, and John continuing to lead the documentation efforts.
So things are looking very promising in terms of a 1.2 release happening within a matter of weeks.
But the best thing about this announcement, is that I am now listed as an official contributor to the core framework. So expect some code from people!
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April 20th, 2008 by Joel
It’s all go in Cake land! This past week has seen some big changes in management [style] at the open source project, which has seen PHPNut temporarily step down as the lead developer of the project. And as a result, we’ve witnessed an increase on the amount of developers actually contributing to the core, including little ol’ me! I committed one or two test cases over the weekend, and have seen two of my contributed patches become applied to the 1.2 branch.
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April 20th, 2008 by Joel
Well, I got fed up of waiting for myself to finish the new Cake powered Switchboard, and this blog needed a desperate refresh, so I got a copy of Wordpress 2.5 and created all that you see right here.
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February 29th, 2008 by Joel
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.
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