The Show:  CakeFest 2008 Wrap Up
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The CakePHP podcast "The Show" has released their latest episode, a wrapup of the recent CakeFest 2008 conference that finished a few days ago.   Jeff Loiselle, Nate Abele, Mariano Iglesias, Peter Vanhee, Antonio De Marco, Paul Kruger, Timo Derstappen, Frederic Bollon, and Yann Le Blevac wrap up CakeFest at 1am in the hotel lobby.   You can either grab the mp3 directly or you can subscribe to their feed and get this and other great episodes as they come out. The Show is recorded live and listeners can ask questions of the hosts in real-time via the CakePHP channel on the Freenode IRC network.
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This new post on the Sanisoft blog has some good news for CakePHP developers concerning the bundled email component - it now can be made header injection safe.   In Cheesecake 1.x we had used our home grown component for sending emails. Having learned our lessons from the headaches of Pixelpost team due to email header injection attacks in their comment mailing code we had taken precautions to make our code safe from such attacks.   They proposed an update to the CakePHP functionality to integrate this solution on a more permanent basis.
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The Consumer Electronics Show is leaving Las Vegas. Here's a steamy mix of hot air and hard facts on what we see shaping up for 2008.
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Felix Geisendorfer has a new post today showing off an example of his screencasting abilities. Specifically, the video looks at using vendor branching to keep your CakePHP installation up to date.   So here I go with my very first screencast to be published. The topic is how to use vendor branching with CakePHP which is one of many ways to keep your CakePHP version up to date.   The video is 15(ish) minutes long and covers, from start to finish, the process of grabbing the latest CakePHP build from the subversion repository and install it automatically to your system.   As a plus, Felix also includes links to the software he used to make the screencast for those that are curious.
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Those that didn't get a chance to check out this year's PHP UK Conference can get a little taste of what it was like from Rob Allen's perspective in his latest blog post today.   Included in the happenings he mentions were the talk that Cal Evans of the Zend Developer Zone gave on mashups, Kevin Henney's look at Object Orientation, and Rasmus Lerdorf's look at PHP5 performance/security. He also mentions meeting up with Dagfinn Reiersol (author of PHP in Action) to "talk shop" a bit about writing books.   You can check out all of the details about the conference that was over on their website including summaries of the talks that were given during this jam-packed one day event.
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Felix Geisendorfer is in the process of moving his blog from Wordpress to a customized "light-weight CakePHP replacement" he's developing to be extended later on. His post shares some of the tips he found so far.   In this post I'm simply going to throw out some snippets to show how I'm currently approaching the whole process in order to give both my insight into what works and what doesn't, while also hoping to get some people to share their insight into migrating legacy apps to CakePHP.   The tip in this post is primarily about the database side of things - his porting over of the information from the Wordpress table model to his new customized schema. His code example for the migration is included.
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There are no more big holidays looming over the horizon. Whew... Glad that's over!!  "cheesecake" PS: If I could be Emperor of the Universe for five minutes I'd outlaw all holidays in November, December and January and would declare that everybody should be nice to everyone all the time, no matter what season it is!
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The Bakery has lots of new things they've posted recently - information on new components, tutorials, and details on new releases of the framework. Here's a sampling of some of the latest:   New Year, New Beta Getting started quickly with Scriptaculous effects Getting Tidy Acts As Emailable Introducing the cakephp-instaweb webserver Overriding specific HTML tags before using helper methods Smarty View for 1.2 Cake Meet Pie CakePHP on IIS Crypter Component   Be sure to keep checking back on The Bakery for the new content added all the time.
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As mentioned on the Zend Developer Zone, the CakePHP group has officially announced this year's CakeFest Conference being held in Orlando, Florida.   With the recent launch of CakePHP 1.2 beta, the Cake world is now more active than ever. What better way to keep up with the latest than joining CakePHP's core team and prominent developers in three exciting days of CakePHP programming talks.   You can get full details about three day event from the conference page including a way to submit your talk proposal (it ends January 21st, 2008 so hurry!) and information on the area and a link to signup.
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2008 is off to a fine start for the world of Linux sound and music software, so this week's story is straight reporting from Studio Dave, with breaking news from various points on the Linux audio compass.  read more
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This week's HP World is over, and users at the event had a lot of things on their minds.
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The "Ramblecast" from this year's php|tek 2007 conference has been edited and poasted by the guys over at the Pro::PHP Podcast. Guests for this edition of the RambleCast included:   Paul Reinhimer Sean Coates Sara Golemon Terry Chay Ed Finkler   Oh, and don't forget to read Sean's disclaimers when you listen to the show. You'll take it all a little less seriously and enjoy the ride a little bit more.
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As Chris Hartjes points out there's a new release of the popular PHP framework CakePHP (as well as a new web site design).   While speaking with nate last night via IM, he told me about the latest set of changes for CakePHP 1.2. There is simply just too much to mention, so I suggest heading on over to the brand-spanking-new CakePHP home page and checking out the changelog.   You can grab the latest download directly from the homepage or look into the manual to find out more about the framework and how it can be used.
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Sebastian Bergmann is attending this year's php/db|works conference happening in Toronto and has already posted some of his experiences and photos from the event to his blog today.   He summarizes both Monday (flights and sleep) and Tuesday, "Tutorial Day". Specifically, he mentions attending the PHP 5 Certification Crash Course and the Extending PHP talk given by Wez Furlong.   He's also posted some photos of the event over on his Flickr account to check out some of the festivities.
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As mentioned by Elizabeth Naramore on the php|architect website today, the CakePHP porject has launched their own live/podcast series, The Show to highlight different happenings in the project's community.   The Show was conceived after core developer Nate Abele and I recorded a podcast for php|architect with our good friend Paul Reinheimer. We had so much fun doing the podcast, that we decided to keep it going for the CakePHP community. The Show was born.   The show is broadcast live, but you can always to get the shows if you can't make it for the live event. Questions are welcomed during the show via Skype, IRC (#cakephp-live on Freenode) and telephone.   Two episodes of the show have already aired - the polit, an Introduction to CakePHP 1.2 and a look at Writing Console Applications.
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Gabe:  I found a couple more really nice videos of the intro to the final round of the Omegathon. In case you missed it here's a couple different looks at it. This was easily the most elaborate thing we've ever tried to pull off at the show.
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Blog: Party recap from the gaming convention in Santa Monica.