CakePHP Digest #18 - The CakeFest Edition

Posted by Matt on Tue, Jul 21 2009

CakeFest

Big News

The big news everyone is talking about from CakeFest is Cake3 - a completely overhauled version of CakePHP geared towards PHP5.3. Unfortunately I was stuck watching over little one (by that I mean my co-workers...I kid...you guys are the best) and didn't make it to Berlin. Plus, ustream.tv ate the keynote videos, so I probably have less details then anyone. Of course it didn't take much detective work to find the processed versions of the keynotes that will probably soon be seen on live.cakephp.org. In other news CakePHP2, a PHP5 version, was also announced, but was so overshadowed by Cake3 that it resorted to cutting itself for attention.

The Show

Nate Abele, Garrett Woodworth, and Jeff Loiselle did a podcast recently discussing what went down at CakeFest. Nothing too earth shattering was revealed, but it clocks in at a trim 27 mins, so it's worth a listen. Thankfully they didn't answer any questions from the IRC channel, so I didn't feel so bad that I didn't waste an hour figuring out how to use IRC.

Interviews

Also on live.cakephp.org are three interviews. I haven't had a chance to check any of these out yet, so I'll just throw out the links, with a description of what I think they are talking about based on the preview image:
Nate Abele and Jeff Loiselle discuss various leg crossing positions. Nate prefers the traditional over the top (The Orwellian), while Jeff tends towards the perpendicular tuck.
Gwoo and Jeff Loiselle don't actually talk in this one. They just flex for the camera for 13 mins.
Mariano Iglesias explains the dangers of hat head to Joël Perras

Recaps

Graham Weldon has recaps of each of the talks posted on CakeDC.com.

Cake Toppings has a short post, which includes the bit: "That saterday had a few interesting talks and also some not interesting ones." Unfortunately, no further details where given. DRAMA!

Kevin van Zonneveld has a pretty long post on some of the tips he picked up.

Felix Geisendörfer posted his summary on the newly re-designed debuggable.com.

@alkemann has a post covering some of the out of conference shenanigans, including Fork Master (co-created by gwoo), which is kind of like horseshoes but with less of a chance of breaking a toe and a greater risk of losing an eye.

Slides

A bunch of the slides for the talks are posted. Oddly the files are all exactly the same size (512.0 Byte). Really impressive that all the presenters could coordinate and pull that off.

Mind Map (whatever the heck that is)

Not really sure what the point of these things are...but here is one for CakeFest.

Random Video

I leave no stone unturned. No link unhyperlinked. Here is 49 seconds of dimly lit bowling that @pierremartin claims came from CakeFest, but could easily be a night at rock and bowl from three years ago.

Photos

There were a bunch of random single shots posted on twitter, but I'll stick to the galleries here.

A bunch of iPhone shots from @alkemann.

Graham Weldon also has a picasa gallery, which includes some moderately NSFW shots. Someone should do A/B testing on the NSFW tag. I bet click throughs jump like 100000% with it.

And finally @pierremartin has a picasa gallery as well.

That's It

Sorry if I missed your blog recap, photo set, drunken video, or whatever. Feel free to leave a link in the comments.

Posted in CakePHP Digest

11 Comments

Nabeel said on Jul 21, 2009
Cake3 (and 2) are sweet announcements. Can't wait to playing with some RC versions. Thanks for the updates!!
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nate said on Jul 21, 2009
For the record, that bowling video *was* from CakeFest, and I can vouch for it since that's me bowling that strike at the end.

Oh yeah baby, who's your lead developer?
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Joel Perras said on Jul 21, 2009
That bowling video must have been early in the evening, before we started Euro-Strike Gambling Bowling. I'm still pissed at @alkemann for winning twice (or was it three?) in a row.
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Pierre MARTIN said on Jul 22, 2009
Sadly the camera battery didn't resist to the full day of pictures and videos...

Btw for a french recap of the Cakefest, one can go to: http://www.pierre-martin.fr/cakephp/cakefest-3-premier-jour-de-conferences/ (I just made one recap now, the Sunday's one is coming soon ;) )
alkemann said on Jul 22, 2009
iI took your money 3 times! :) And I also wun the non-gambling bit I think! Now, if only this wasn't beginners luck, so I could start a bowling career... hmmm
Graham Weldon said on Jul 22, 2009
Slides are not 512Kb each. If you look, you will notice that the 512Kb sie is actually the size of the directory. Inside those directories you will see more than just the slides. Some of them contain the actual presentation files as well as source code that accompanied the slides. Something more than a gloass over would have revealed this. More of these are being added as they become available.
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alkemann said on Jul 22, 2009
Graham, If I look closely I notice that they are actually 512 byte, not Kb :) And seeing as how I made the same mistake, I think it's a perfectly reasonable assumption to believe that the size of a folder is the size of the contents!
Matt said on Jul 22, 2009
Yea, I noticed this as I clicked down the directory tree from http://cakephp.org/downloads. I was just having some fun with the whole file size thing. I'll try to keep that at a minimum going forward.
alkemann said on Jul 22, 2009
Ok I promise to stop spamming this blog post after this last comment. My nick and twitter handle is actually @alkemann, not @alkermann. But thanks a lot for the mention Matt :)
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Matt said on Jul 22, 2009
I had the link url right...just messed up the text. Fixed now. Sorry about that.
Joel Perras said on Jul 23, 2009
Keynote videos are now up: http://cakefest.org/videos
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