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title: "Time for a diet..."
content-type: article
timestamp: 1173437940
tags: "cakephp|rant|writing"
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<p>My fianc&eacute;e 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&#8482;<sup class="footnote" id="fnr1"><a href="#fn1">1</a></sup> framework
    too, once, and I <strong>did</strong> write some articles 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&#8482; 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 &#8211; to some extent &#8211; 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>&#8220;by chance&#8221;</em> and my
    articles were still there:</p>
<p><img src="/images/pictures/cake-promo/cakephp-08032007.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>&#8230;while this morning they weren&#8217;t anymore:</p>
<p><img src="/images/pictures/cake-promo/cakephp-09032007.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>Of course I can&#8217;t provide any proof that I took the screenshot yesterday, and of course I don&#8217;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="/articles/42/">bad behavior</a> my articles didn&#8217;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&#8217;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 &#8211; for the sake of the framework &#8211; 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 &#8220;officially recognized&#8221;, I think I&#8217;d better to move on
    devoting my attention to something else.</p>
<p class="footnote" id="fn1"><a href="#fnr1"><sup>1</sup></a> &#8220;CakePHP&#8221; and &#8220;Cake&#8221;
    <em>seems</em> to be registered trademarks of the Cake Software Foundation Inc. I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m
    allowed to use them in this blog &#8212; If anyone has any problem with it, please let me know.
</p>