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title: "Meet some Cake(PHP) bakers!"
content-type: article
timestamp: 1144767780
tags: "cakephp"
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<p>I should write more. I noticed that I since I decided to take a break from <a href="http:www.zzine.org">zZine
        Magazine</a> I more or less stopped writing &#8211; and started <em>baking</em> again with <a
        href="http://www.cakephp.org/">CakePHP</a>. As a result I finally recoded this website and <em>refreshed</em> a
    little bit my almost-rusty baking skills.</p>
<p style="float:left;"><img src="/images/pictures/cakephp.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>Why not taking advantage of this and write more about CakePHP then? After all, my last <a
        href="/articles/cakephp/">article</a> turned out well enough and some people even bookmarked it online on
    del.icio.us and ma.gnolia&#8230; Now it's a bit out of date, I must admit: it was based on a pre-beta release
    of the framework, and we're (more or less) stable now. <br />
    A lot of things changed in the Bakers Community since then! At the time the <a
        href="http://wiki.cakephp.org/">wiki</a> barely started and there was no <a
        href="http://manual.cakephp.org/">manual</a> whatsoever, only my long and perhaps <em>slightly</em> boring
    article describing Cake's functionalities. Now there things are much better for newcomers: they have a
    continuously growing community to rely upon, both on the Google user group and on <span class="caps">IRC</span>
    (#cakephp on FreeNode counted 63 members today, while back in the day 20 was a big number). There are also a few
    people who started blogging and starting websites about CakePHP: while I was the first to write an article about
    Cake I was <em>the last</em> so far to start a blog :/ Oh well, nobody's perfect!</p>
<p>The first site I came across &#8211; although not a blog really &#8211; is Graham Bird's <a
        href="http://grahambird.co.uk/cake/">Cake for Beginners</a>. When someone asks me some basic questions about
    CakePHP I send him there because first of all they'll find a short <span class="caps">FAQ</span> about the
    framework, i.e. something everybody should know before even start thinking about learning Cake. Similarly, the guy
    has a <a href="http://grahambird.co.uk/cake/glossary/">Glossary</a> in progress to help those souls who feel lost in
    Cake's terminology. If you don't consider yourself a total beginner anymore, the <a
        href="http://grahambird.co.uk/cake/tutorials/">Tutorials</a> section can be a very interesting read: I wanted to
    add some <span class="caps">AJAX</span> bits to my site, but the documentation about this seemed pretty scarce, so I
    headed to the <a href="http://grahambird.co.uk/cake/tutorials/ajax.php">Ajax Task List</a> tutorial and it really
    helped.</p>
<p>On the blogs front, on the other hand, <a href="http://cakebaker.42dh.com/">Cake Baker</a> seems to be the most
    active: I'm starting to check this one often (OK, I'd better subscribe to the <span class="caps">RSS</span> feeds,
    perhaps) because it seems to be <span class="caps">THE</span> best place to get
    the latest news about everything concerning CakePHP: The author seems to post quite frequently (there's always
    a new post every 1-3 days maximum) includes short code snippets when necessary and report news when there's
    anything to report.</p>
<p><a href="http://sentino.wordpress.com/">Sentino</a> is also an interesting place to learn new things about CakePHP:
    the only problem is that the author seems to post less frequently&#8230; the blog seems to have some sort of
    &#8220;milestone&#8221; schedule, publishing something when there's something big enough to justify a post. If
    you want to subscribe to a less frequent blog with only the essentials about Cake, this is a good choice.</p>
<p><a href="http://rossoft.wordpress.com/">RosSoft</a> unlike the others mentioned up to now has a much more technical
    approach: no news about Cake or anything, just some <span class="caps">REALLY</span> useful real-world example of
    Cake helpers, components etc. etc., with <span class="caps">FULL</span> source code to cut and paste. Really handy
    if you need something specific, truly excellent for beginners to have a look at how Cake classes should be written.
    <br />
    Among the most interesting fully working snippets:<br />
    <a href="http://rossoft.wordpress.com/2006/03/29/ip-to-country-component-geo-location/">IP-to-country component</a>
    <br />
    <a href="http://rossoft.wordpress.com/2006/03/27/poor-mans-cron-component/">Poor man's cron
        component</a><br />
    <a href="http://rossoft.wordpress.com/2006/03/16/image-auth-component/">Image Auth &#8211; <span
            class="caps">CAPTCHA</span> component</a>
</p>
<p style="float:right;"><img src="http://xcite-online.de/spliceit/themes/SpliceIt/logo.png" alt="" /></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thinkingphp.org/">ThinkingPHP</a> is another &#8220;technical&#8221; Cake blog, with interesting
    code snippets and thoughts about our favourite <span class="caps">PHP</span> framework. For those who don't
    know or don't remember him (yes, like me&#8230;), he's the author of <a
        href="http://xcite-online.de/spliceit/">SpliceIt!</a>&#8230; what?</p>
<blockquote>
    <p>SpliceIt!'s mission is to provide a clean and light-weight code base for people who want to create complex
        webapps faster then ever. The things we want to provide are:<br />
        &#8211; User/Right Managment<br />
        &#8211; Theming Support<br />
        &#8211; i18n<br />
        &#8211; Url Aliasing<br />
        &#8211; and most notabily: Modularization of often used Code Segments</p>
</blockquote>
<p>i.e. something I should have checked before recoding this website. I'll definitely keep this in mind for the
    next release of h3rald.com.</p>
<p style="float:left;"><img src="http://rdos.rd11.com/img/rd11/rdlogo.gif" alt="" /></p>
<p><a href="http://rd11.com/posts">Posts@ rd11</a> a.k.a. gwoo [and seth]&#8216;s blog. Moment of silence. Gwoo is
    CakePHP's project manager (respect+) and one of the lead developers of CakePHP and he also actually uses Cake
    for his website and blog instead of WordPress :)<br />
    What can I write about him. It's difficult. I'll avoid all possible pseudo-religious comparisons but
    when I say that <em>he created CakePHP</em> I think I say it all. The code he used for his blog is part of a
    collection of open-source, Cake-powered tools all prefixed with rd- or Cake, available on <a
        href="https://cakeforge.org/projects/rdos">CakeForge</a>. I personally think that looking at his sample
    applications can be one of the best way to learn how to bake <em>properly</em>, and yes, I <strong>did</strong>
    check them out before coding this site for the second time. Demos are <a href="http://rdos.rd11.com/">online</a>.
</p>
<p>That's it. These are perhaps the most well-known bakers and/or Cake bloggers on the planet. There are certainly
    others, maybe even in other languages, but now I'd better stop writing now, because this is a rather long blog
    post. Sorry. I'm new to blogging and I just can't help myself: especially with Cake, I need to write
    lenghty texts!<br />
    More to come&#8230;</p>