CakePHP Digest #21 - Whose Left?
News
So Long and Thanks For All The Gwoo-Abele
Ok, maybe it'll be easier this way: Everyone NOT leaving the CakePHP dev team please take a step forward. First it was Gwoo who left and then Nate soon after. And now I'm hearing rumors that the "C" is leaving and it'll just be "akePHP". In all seriousness, this is all slightly worrisome for Cake developers (I'll take the liberty of speaking for everyone single one of you here). We're talking about the people listed second and third on the Cake contributors page. How can there not be some anxiousness? The Cake team could kill any doubt about the future of the project with a Bakery article. Here's a template:
Hey Cake Community,
I'm sure some of you have seen the news that Nate and Garrett have left the project. First off, we'd like to thank them for their awesome work over the past few years...(continue lavishing praise. You could stick 6 paragraphs here and you'd barely be scratching the surface). We wish them both the best in their future endeavors. (also note: no parting shots. Whatever disagreement (if any) took place behind the scenes - keep it that way).Looking forward, we still have some great developers as part of the team. Mark Story is kicking so much ass leading version 1.3. We also have xxxx leading version 2.0 and making great progress. Just last week 2.0 achieved consciousness and now repeatedly asks: "shall we play a game?" They grow up so fast...
You get the picture: 1) praise, 2) restore confidence.
I'd also like to take a moment to personally thank Garrett Woodworth and Nate Abele. I'm sure no one on the outside can truly recognize all the work they've put into the project. Everyone pause and pour1out for your homies. On the bright side we still have Cake and now Garrett and Nate are off to do whatever they have planned next. So basically it's like having conjoined twins who are now separated (probably not the best analogy, but I'm sticking with it).
Updated API and Book...now with more ads!
The Book and API got updated (momentarily dragging the stagnant @cakephp twitter account away from it's beach side chair to make the announcement). AdWords are now showing up for the three of you who don't ad block. My favorite so far is from the Security lib, which was something like "Want to become a security guard?". I was pretty tempted for a moment. Do I get a baton or just a really long flash light that doubles as a weapon? Also there are plenty of Java ads, which are a nice reminder for when you're having a bad day: it could be so much worse.
In The Wild
fontstruct.fontshop.com
This one came in via email. It's a pretty cool looking font creator. I'm not a huge font/typeface nut. The whole legal aspect has always turned me off. So many patents and trademarks and who can use what type and how it can be rendered. Seriously we're talking about fucking letters here. I also once used comic sans in a site design, so basically I have no credibility here.
paularmstrongdesigns.com
New homepage for Paul Armstrong, announced via twitter.
free-bingo-cards.com
A site to make free custom printable bingo cards. Suspiciously hosted on the same IP as this blog.
In The Blogs
Unit Testing CakePHP Shells
I stupidly missed this one in the last digest, proving once again that I shouldn't blog sober.
Top 10 things to look forward to in CakePHP 1.3
Teknoid has a great post counting down some of the changes to CakePHP 1.3. Go ahead and read it right now if you haven't already. Ok, now tell me you're not excited for 1.3.
Anti-CakePHP Tweet(s) I enjoyed
Feeling marginal about CakePHP. I wonder if there's any other way to feel about it.
The white screen of death is fantastic fun on a Saturday evening. Thanks #cakephp, we really appreciate it
Code
Google Analytics
Neil Crookes rocks it once again with his Google Analytics plugin.
Croogo - A CMS
From @fahad19: Croogo, a CakePHP powered CMS.
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32 Comments
In spite of the article http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/the-cake-is-still-rising I'm still a bit worried about cakePHP. If 2 of the most important project members leaving and taking a very good future approach (Cake3) with them, I would guess their has been a big dispute about the future or philosophy of the project. I think this is a very important point for each cake coder. So guys what's really up??
But the current version fragmentation and core devs leaving has, as noted above, shaken my confidence a little. And WTF is Li3 (besides an anti-depressant?) I am officially intrigued.
- Grumpy Old Fart
That aside, thanks Nate and Garrett for all your hard work! ... and best of luck in everything.
Thanks heaps for the great work your guys have done over the years. I sincerely wish you the best of luck in the future your imprint on the framework wil not got unoticed.
Wait, you mean LI3 is a MAOI? I might consider getting one of those. Just kidding. :)
You guys have to understand that Sam DeVore is now on "rant mode" and he is "irked". (imitating the voice of the villain from the Bolt movie). LOL!
And Matt, you want people to make custom bingo cards? Seriously? :D
@mcurry: thanks for listing my cms :)
I feel like this can only be a good thing for us. It seems like CakePHP will continue moving forward and now we will get something new (Li3) to play with. So it might all work out nicely.
Just hope that someday the truth comes out about who disagreed with who, why they *really* left and who killed J.R.
As always Matt, a good read...
not going to wish you luck in the future as that would imply that I wouldn't hear from you again, which would be a far worse tragedy because at the 2 cakefests I met you, I had a great time and learnt a lot. so instead I'll say stay in touch (@gwoo, maybe this change in career is also the perfect opportunity to start tweeting ;-) ) and if you're ever in the UK, give me a shout.
@matt, cheers for the plug, also worth mentioning is @pointlessjon's add-in to my plugin for integrating Google Data's Picasa Web Albums API, which leverages the base GdataSource in my plugin.
finally, @cakephp community, I blame myself for these recent events having selected Zend Framework for a recent very high traffic project and inflicting bad juju on us all. sorry I won't do it again ;-)
Looking forward to li3, whatever it may be.
Good luck to Gwoo and Nate - just had a quick look at the Lithium wiki and can't wait to give it a go.
I would hope that the Cake community is big enough and enthusiastic enough to get over Gwoo and Nate leaving - and I would be very surprised if it wasn't - there are a lot of smart and generous people in the Cake community and it'll be fun to see where it goes next, as new people taking up lead positions will almost certainly bring in slightly different philosophies.
Anyway from my quick scan of the Lithium wiki - a whole lot of it is devoted to talking about making it friendly with and easy to integrate bits of other frameworks...
Exciting times.
Thanks for all the hard work and dedication that you've put into making Cake the most awesome framework ever, also, kudos for using the term "automagic" to describe Cake =D
Smiles and rainbows.
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