Developing With Style

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.

Read the rest of this entry »

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.

Read the rest of this entry »

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.

So it finally happenned! After a year of development, today marks the release of the very first Beta of CakePHP 1.2. While it is great to see, I just can’t help thinking how many beta’s we will have to endure before we see a final production release.

Also in the news, is the announcement that Florida will be hosting the first CakePHP conference. CakeFest will take place over three days between February 6th and 8th 2008, and will feature “tutorials, talks, and fun”. It sounds so good, I decided to take a shot at submitting a proposal to speak. My subject is obviously about Migrations, so who knows? It would be quite cool to be accepted.

I’ll keep ya posted.