If you missed part 1 you can check it out here.

From what I've seen the relationship between the maintainers of the top JavaScript frameworks is pretty friendly. How would characterize the relationship between the top PHP frameworks?

While there's been a fair bit of professional rivalry between different frameworks at different times, for the most part I'd say it's all in good fun. I've been fortunate enough to have met lead developers / prominent representatives from all the major PHP frameworks. They're all really great guys and I get along with all of them quite well, especially Paul M. Jones (of SolarPHP) and Matthew Weier O'Phinney (of Zend Framework). They're both very insightful, and I've never had an uninteresting conversation with either of them.

If you weren't the lead dev of CakePHP and Cake didn't exist what other framework would you be using (any language)?

Since we're going with any language, I'd have to say Node.js, which is (wait for it...) a JavaScript framework. I've always loved JavaScript, and it's probably the only language that would tempt me away from PHP for server-side development.

Do you get to code Cake apps at your day job? Are you able to work on the Cake core during the day or do you do everything off hours.

Well, my current job is with a startup, Hoopla Software, and I'm developing an app on Cake 1.3 that talks to SalesForce. I even wrote a database driver that speaks SalesForce SQL, which we plan on releasing later on. At my previous job with OmniTI, I'd say about 50% of my projects were in Cake. In both cases, work on the core itself usually happens in conjunction with something specifically work-related, with the occasional quick bugfix during the day. Both my current and previous employer are very supportive of Open Source, so I've been fortunate in that regard.

Favorite coding beverage during the day? for after hours?

I'd have to go with Coke for both. I was recently introduced to a drink called Club-Mate in Germany, but that stuff is dangerously powerful.

Favorite music to code to?

Well, I don't really have a favorite, and my musical tastes are pretty varied, so this list could go on for a while. Some of the highlights: The Who, Switchfoot, G. Love, The Police, Weezer, Bowie, The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Guster, Jet, Sinatra, Death Cab, Café Tacuba, Cheap Trick, Cake (!), U2, Peter Gabriel, Relient K, The Proclaimers, The Caesars, The Specials, The Cure, Citizen Cope, Sanctus Real, Bob Marley, Elvis Costello, more Switchfoot, and Garrett's favorite: Oasis.

What apps have you built using the CakePHP framework?

Besides the one I'm working on right now, most of what I've worked on I'm not technically supposed to discuss, particularly not in print (see! if you were at CakeFest, you'd have heard the stories). In very general terms, I've written a tool related to security testing, a very big and high-profile tracking tool for a company that everybody's heard of, a bunch of smaller sites and tools around a database and suite of analytics tools for helping political campaigns analyze several terabytes of voter data, a portal for a football magazine, a couple of smaller, more personal CMS-y type stuff, mainly for the heck of it, a very JavaScript-heavy calendar app with iCal syncing, and a couple dozen smaller for-fun side-projects, most of which will probably never see the light of day.

Aside from those projects, on which I've been the principal developer (or one of), I've had my hands in or on several other CakePHP projects (and non-Cake / non-PHP projects), public, private and Open Source.

The End

Thanks to Nate for being so open and giving some awesome answers. I will now freeze myself, Cartman stlye, rather then endure the wait for Cake3. Someone please remember to dig me out when it's released.