Thanks and keep the good work going and reaching new milestones.
Proud to be a CakePHP developer, eating all these delicious cakes.
On Dec 29, 10:25 pm, "dr. Hannibal Lecter" <lecter...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I may be a bit late with this, but...
>
> Congratulations to everyone on this fine release, I'm sure your
> efforts will be acknowledged among the PHP developers. This will
> surely confirm that CakePHP is *the* framework for PHP.
>
> Let them eat cake!
>
> On Dec 26, 1:51 am, Gwoo <gwoo.cake...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > //Warning: this message is long and full of goodies.
>
> > History does not happen, it is made.
>
> > Today, the history of the CakePHP grows stronger. December 25, 2008
> > will be remembered as one of the most important points in this
> > history. After exactly 2 yrs from the first development release, we
> > can happily say we have the most stable and powerful web framework
> > available. Please enjoy our big present to you, CakePHP 1.2 stable
> > [1]. For this release, we have removed the test files from the build,
> > and created a tag in SVN.
>
> > Through the last two years, we have been blessed by a dedicated,
> > talented, and opinionated community[2]. We have shared disagreements
> > [3] and triumphs. We have won popularity contests[4] and been hated
> > on. We have seen CakePHP grow into a truly international community[5].
> > All of these events have generated an immense amount of passion for
> > CakePHP.
>
> > No one is more passionate about CakePHP than the developers[6] who
> > close tickets and fix bugs. We started out two years ago with a small
> > team that dedicated countless hours to implementing new features into
> > 1.2 and maintaining 1.1 stable. This team ensured the integrity of
> > code and vision of the project. When we needed to grow, we found
> > members of the community who showed the same amount of dedication and
> > passion for CakePHP. And with the launch of CakeBOOK, onhttp://book.cakephp.org,
> > we have seen the dedication and passion further extend to all the
> > contributors and translators[7] of the fantastic documentation that
> > makes learning about the power of CakePHP a bit easier.
>
> > We have seen CakePHP adopted by large projects[8] and the growth of
> > dedicated service companies[9]. We have held a workshop[10] to spread
> > the knowledge and passion of CakePHP. And ultimately, we implemented a
> > huge list of features...
>
> > - Tests!
> > - All classes are test-covered, with good code coverage
> > - Test suite now integrated into the framework
> > - test generation
> > - support for coverage analysis
> > - Command-line infrastructure
> > - with more shell scripts and ability to write custom ones easily
> > - Plugin architecture
> > - Plugins are now distributable as packaged collections of files
> > - Can be loaded from your main app with a dot syntax
> > - Internationalization and Localization support
> > - i18n and l10n classes
> > - Support for unicode strings
> > - Auth component
> > - automatically handles sessions for authenticated users
> > - ties into ACL for automatic denial of protected content or actions
> > - Email component
> > - for generation of text and html email
> > - Security component
> > - HTTP auth support, great for web services
> > - CSRF protection
> > - Cookie component
> > - for secure cookie handling
> > - Custom model finders
> > - simplified syntax
> > - powerful and extensible
> > - Join models
> > - for modeling and accessing HABTM join tables
> > - Behaviors, new way to extend models
> > - Supports "mixing in" new functionality
> > - Containable behavior
> > - simplified query optimization
> > - Validation system extended
> > - with new Validation class, lots of rules
> > - multiple rules and messages
> > - Database drivers
> > - support for many more databases including DB2 and Oracle
> > - Caching
> > - Adapter-driven caching, with support for APC/XCache/Memcache
> > - Set class,
> > - for magical array hacking
> > - Socket and HttpSocket classes
> > - for dealing with remote data and services
> > - Debugger class, for detailed introspection of errors
> > - Get stack traces anywhere in your code
> > - Introspected help on errors, with context information
> > - Pagination
> > - one of the first additions to the new version
> > - one of the simplest systems known
> > - Proper Routing
> > - mapResources() method for exposing controllers via REST
> > - Reverse routing support
> > - Named arguments
> > - Magic variables for common regexes
> > - Support for file extensions with custom content type mappings
> > - View stuff
> > - Separate templates for different content types
> > - automatic switching with RequestHandler
> > - New helper callbacks
> > - renderElement() replaced with element(), added built-in caching
> > support
> > - FormHelper
> > - All form-related methods moved here
> > - New dot notation
> > - Support for associations and multiple records
> > - Huge automation and introspection support; form creation requires
> > very little code
> > - Configure and App classes
> > - for configuration and loading
> > - Replaces defines and global functions
>
> > We hope that was a fun read. The changes since 1.1 have been dramatic,
> > but to us this was the minimum set of features needed to a truly
> > powerful framework and realize our vision for maintainability,
> > flexibility, and extensibility.
>
> > Almost as dramatic as the feature set, was the growth of the community
> > over this time, especially with its adoption of testing. We are proud
> > of the fact that Cake is one of the most test covered frameworks. Test
> > coverage allows us to fix more bugs and produce the most stable
> > framework available. We believe that a feature is not truly a feature
> > if there is even one known bug. With that in mind, each release comes
> > with the expectation that no bugs are known at the time.
>
> > Many of you may remember the first release of 1.2. Back on Dec 25,
> > 2006 we released at revision 4206. Many features had not been
> > implemented or finalized, but we had a taste of what was to come. With
> > this release at [7958], we have come a long way. But possibly the
> > most exciting aspect of being where we are on Dec 25, 2008, is what we
> > expect to see in the future.
>
> > CakePHP helps build amazingly powerful applications. We have a running
> > list of examples[11]. Many of these applications were built with
> > earlier versions of 1.2. With the release of CakePHP 1.2 stable, we
> > expect these applications to enjoy a long history, just like the
> > CakePHP project itself.
>
> > If you have made it this far, we would like to pass on a few extra
> > goodies we have been working on. First is the all new Cake 1.2
> > cheatsheet. The old CakeSheet has proved to be a simple, quick
> > reference to some of the power of CakePHP. This new version is the
> > start of several more to come. Second, the gorgeous DebugKit plugin.
> > This plugin helps you develop your application faster by providing
> > quick, easy access to a lot of valuable debugging information.
> > DebugKit also provides and excellent example of how you can build
> > plugins to extend the functionality of you application. Finally, for
> > all the TextMate users out there we have an updated CakePHP TextMate
> > bundle. Joel Perras has put in a great amount of work and coding
> > CakePHP in TextMate just got a lot easier thanks to him. For all
> > these great resources and more, head on over to the downloads[12]
> > page.
>
> > We hope you enjoy the big present and the few goodies. Have a great
> > holiday season.
> > - Gwoo, Nate, PhpNut and the rest of the CakePHP team
>
> > [1]http://cakeforge.org/frs/?group_id=23&release_id=433
> > [2]http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/,http://www.ohloh.net/p/cakephp
> > [3]http://ajbrown.org/blog/2008/12/22/four-reasons-to-hate-cakephp.html
> > [4]http://php-mag.net/magphpde/magphpde_news/psecom,id,26752,nodeid,5.ht...
> > [5]http://archive.fosdem.org/2008/,http://conference.cakephp.jp/,http://...
> > [6]https://trac.cakephp.org/wiki/Contributors
> > [7]http://book.cakephp.org/stats
> > [8]https://addons.mozilla.org/,http://www.livemocha.com/,http://www.zead...
> > [9]http://cakedc.com,http://debuggable.com,http://sanisoft.com
> > [10]http://debuggable.com/posts/workshop-day-2:48c51df7-4fd4-4906-8b1f-6e...
> > [11]http://book.cakephp.org/view/510/Sites-in-the-wild
> > [12]http://cakephp.org/downloads
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