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title: "Introducing: \"CakePHP Recipes\""
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- :date: 2007-11-05 02:43:33 +01:00
  :author: naxis
  :url: ""
  :id: 108
  :body: can you give a date about when the book will on stores physically?
- :date: 2007-11-16 09:45:10 +01:00
  :author: Sam
  :url: http://www.samoliver.com
  :id: 124
  :body: |-
    Just got this from Amazon after 6 months back order:
    
    Dear Customer,
    
    We wanted to give you an update on the status of your order [***].
    
    We are sorry to inform you that we have been unable to obtain the 
    following item:
    
      Fabio Cevasco (Author) "CakePHP Recipes" [Perfect Paperback]
    
    We apologise for the length of time it has taken us to reach this
    conclusion.  Until recently, we had still hoped to obtain this item for
    you.
    
    This item has now been cancelled from your order and we can confirm that
    you have not been charged for it.
    
    Please accept our apologies for any disappointment or inconvenience 
    caused.
    
    Any ideas when the book will be out?
- :date: 2007-11-16 11:36:08 +01:00
  :author: Fabio Cevasco
  :url: http://www.h3rald.com
  :id: 125
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    This book has been canceled, so it will never be available.
    
    For more information on the reasons for this, see:
    
    --  "http://www.h3rald.com/blog/42":http://www.h3rald.com/blog/42
    
    --  "http://www.h3rald.com/blog/too-many-cooks-take-2":http://www.h3rald.com/blog/too-many-cooks-take-2
date: 2006-11-02 05:25:00 +01:00
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- cakephp
- writing
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Despite all my efforts to keep the whole thing quiet for the time being, a few days ago I entered the words "CakePHP Recipes" in Google and discovered - to my astonishment - that my new book about the CakePHP framework is already for (pre)sale in many popular online bookstores.

Up to now I never made any formal announcement myself (although the Cake Software Foundation already did, months ago), nor gave out any juicy details about it, but maybe now the time has come to post something more about it. Yes, I am indeed writing a book about the CakePHP framework, and yes, you can already buy it but no, you can't phisically get it simply because it's still in progress (miracles of the modern publishing industry!).

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I'd like to point out that I'm not the _only_ author of the book: all the code examples and snippets included in the book is provided by the Cake Software Foundation staff, in the person of Larry E. Masters and Garrett J. Woodworth mainly, who will also act as technical editors and first reviewers of the book, together with other trusthworthy CakePHP core developers.
It is our intent to produce an enjoyable and yet very useful book which will hopefully help CakePHP enthusiasts to use the framework in real-world situations: the book will not focus on theory but on practice, by providing a lot of interesting "recipes" on how to implement a particular functionality in a CakePHP web application.

Why should you get it? Here are some reasons:

* It is a book written _by_ programmers _for_ programmers
* All the code included in the book has been created and tested by the creators of the framework
* Part of all the revenues generated by the book (including royalties) will go to the Cake Software Foundation, and hopefully contribute to improve our already excellent framework.

Very special thanks to "Peachpit Press":http://www.peachpit.com/ for giving me and the Cake Software Foundation this chance to 

More to come...


bq. *UPDATE*: This book "has been canceled":http://www.h3rald.com/blog/42 and therefore will NEVER be available in bookshops or online stores.