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----- title: Time for a diet... content-type: article timestamp: 1173437940 tags: cakephp|rant|writing ----- <p>My fiancée keeps telling me that too many cakes are not good for me, and I never listen: I always liked cakes! I <strong>did</strong> like the CakePHP™<sup class="footnote" id="fnr1"><a href="#fn1">1</a></sup> framework too, once, and I <strong>did</strong> write <a href="http://www.h3rald.com/projects/view/cakephp-herald">some articles</a> about it in the past, and I believe at least a bunch of Bakers found them useful, especially at the time.<br /> I do believe the Cake™ Software Foundation<sup class="footnote" id="fnr1"><a href="#fn1">1</a></sup> quite liked having their framework featured on popular websites like php|architect and SitePoint, and I believe that I contributed – to some extent – to make it one of the most popular frameworks available for the <span class="caps">PHP</span> programming language.</p> <p>Unfortunately though someone decided that two of such articles and my personal website were no longer worth a mention on CakePHP official website frontpage. To me, this makes sense since the two CakePHP-related series which are being published by <span class="caps">IBM</span> are much more up-to-date than my articles, and thus deserve such a mention instead.</p> <p>Oddly enough, I took a screenshot of the CakePHP website just yesterday <em>“by chance”</em> and my articles were still there:</p> <p><img src="http://www.h3rald.com/img/pictures/cake-promo/cakephp-08032007.png" alt="" /></p> <p>…while this morning they weren’t anymore:</p> <p><img src="http://www.h3rald.com/img/pictures/cake-promo/cakephp-09032007.png" alt="" /></p> <p>Of course I can’t provide any proof that I took the screenshot yesterday, and of course I don’t have any proof of the fact that someone in <span class="caps">CSF</span> may have thought that due to my recent <a href="http://www.h3rald.com/blog/view/42/">bad behavior</a> my articles didn’t deserve to be publicized anymore. I am confident that the Cake Software Foundation always does its best in keeping its site up-to-date, and I am glad that yesterday’s accident reminded them that there were far better articles which needed to be featured on their site. At least I <em>finally</em> did something good for the community!</p> <p>Sarcasm apart, I feel I owe an apology for blowing this whole thing out of proportions: I disclosed embarassing details about our past project which – for the sake of the framework – should have never been made public, perhaps.<br /> I want all of you to know that I still think that CakePHP is the best <span class="caps">PHP</span> framework ever made and I genuinely think that Larry E. Master did outstanding work in all this time, along with the rest of <span class="caps">CSF</span> members and contributors. Best of luck for your future editorial and development projects.</p> <p>Since now my contributions are no longer “officially recognized”, I think I’d better to move on devoting my attention to something else.</p> <p class="footnote" id="fn1"><a href="#fnr1"><sup>1</sup></a> “CakePHP” and “Cake” <em>seems</em> to be registered trademarks of the Cake Software Foundation Inc. I’m not sure if I’m allowed to use them in this blog — If anyone has any problem with it, please let me know.</p> |