News

CakeFest...

...won't be mentioned in this digest. Look for a special CakeFest Edition later in the week once all the posts are in and ustream gets around to processing the keynotes.

CakeFest Conference Pass Winner

Congrats to Paul R. Zwiers on winning the free conference pass to CakeFest. I'm sure he had an awful time and wish he had just sold it on eBay.

In The Wild

Dead Michael Jackson Jokes

I think this site proves what I've been saying all along: If you need to quickly put up a site to capitalize on the death of celebrity, then CakePHP is your framework.

Dos Equis Academy

Part of Dos Equis "Most Interesting" marketing campaign, the academy site is a bunch of mini flash games. The games aren't what you would call "good" or "entertaining" or even "moving at an acceptable framerate." They were probably coded by the same guys who did ustream.tv's video processing program.

JumboTweet

jumbotweet.com allows you to post tweets longer then 140 characters to twitter. Basically you make your tweet through the site and the message will be shortened a link to the full message will be included.

Pixelglo

Pixelglo.com is a monthly photo competition. The theme of the first contest is "Wine". Surprisingly, the rules are fairly open: "Our first contest is about anything wine. Vineyards, bottles, taste or anything else that reminds you of wine." I think we have a winner right here.

unameen

unameen.com is a "community website which helps people to share and organize events." You can read more in the Bakery article.

In The Blogs

exclusive option

lecterror has a post about the exclusive option, which can be applied to hasMany relationships. Doing this can save a bunch of queries when doing a delete. I actually ran into this issue shortly before lecterror's post, so it was a very timely read for me.

Tutorials

Jamie Nay has a a couple roundups on useful CakePHP tutorials (here and here). He's trying to post at least 5 links every week, so check it out.

Code

Another CMS

This one's called Camiro. It's not yet at stable release, but there's some stuff there now if you want to check it out.

RSS Datasource

Another nice piece of code from the Loadsys team.

ClamAV Plugin

Not really a true CakePHP implementation, this code is more of a straight PHP class with a Cake shell. All the actual ClamAV stuff is implemented as a PHP class, rather then as a datasource. Still might be helpful to some people.

Uploader Plugin

Miles Johnson released his uploader component.

Named Routes

Mark Gandolfo released a named router class which makes it easier to create links in views.

//the normal way:
$html->link('Edit User', array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'edit', 5))

//with named routes
$html->link('Edit User', url('edit_user_path(5)'));

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