Thanks James for this great message ! > James Watts <mailto:james.wa...@cakephp.org> > 29 December 2013 19:32 > We've been very busy, and have a lot to show for it. Late last year we > created the Community Center <http://community.cakephp.org/>, as a > central location for everyone to find their way around, and help > people get involved with the project. This year we launched My CakePHP > <http://my.cakephp.org/>, as a hub for developers to create a profile, > and unify the experience across all of our sites. The Cake Software > Foundation <http://cakefoundation.org/> website also received a well > overdue facelift. Additionally, after continuous requests, and with a > little help from CakeDC <http://cakedc.com/>, we improved the schedule > for the official CakePHP training <http://training.cakephp.org/>, > which is now provided on a regular basis. > > Earlier this year we also announced our agreement with Microsoft to > make CakePHP available on Windows Azure > <http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/cakephp.aspx>. That doesn't mean > you can't get your piece of the cake on other platforms, such as > Rackspace's Cloud Sites > <http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/installing-cakephp-on-cloud-sites>, > Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk > <http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/create_deploy_PHP_cakePHP.html> > or RedHat's OpenShift <https://www.openshift.com/quickstarts/cakephp>, > as well as other PaaS providers, like Pagoda Box > <http://help.pagodabox.com/customer/portal/articles/174049-cakephp> or > Fortrabbit <http://fortrabbit.com/solutions/cakephp-hosting>. There's > a lot to choose from. > > It was also great to see that, since our efforts last year > <http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/jameswatts/2012/12/28/cakephp_community_2012> > to extend the reach of the CakePHP community, both the Facebook > interest page <https://www.facebook.com/pages/CakePHP/112600242088531> > and our official Twitter account <https://twitter.com/cakephp> have > reached over 10,000 likes and followers each. The official group > <https://www.facebook.com/groups/cake.community/> on Facebook also > surpassed 3,000 members, becoming even larger than groups for other > major PHP frameworks. But the growth didn't stop there. We had almost > 1 million more visits to the CakePHP sites compared to last year, with > the CookBook <http://book.cakephp.org/> seeing nearly an additional 10 > million page views, reaching over 26 million. For more numbers and > stats check out this year's community keynote > <http://www.slideshare.net/JamesWatts4/cakephp-community-keynote>. > > Which takes us to San Francisco, USA, where we held CakeFest > <http://cakefest.org/> 2013, the annual conference dedicated to > everything CakePHP. Over 80 developers from around the world joined us > for 4 days of workshops and conference. We listened to your feedback > from the previous year and broke the workshop schedule into beginner > and advanced sessions over the first 2 days. This was then followed by > another 2 days of 16 talks given by 12 international speakers, as well > as keynotes > <http://www.slideshare.net/josezap1/cake-fest-2013-keynote>, lightning > <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152257493958135&set=a.10152257440208135.1073741830.339964833134&type=3&theater> > talks > <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152257491388135&set=a.10152257440208135.1073741830.339964833134&type=3&theater>, > core team > <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152257483473135&set=a.10152257440208135.1073741830.339964833134&type=3&theater> > Q&A, and the raffle > <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152257505438135&set=a.10152257440208135.1073741830.339964833134&type=3&theater>. > We took away some really memorable > <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152257496813135&set=a.10152257440208135.1073741830.339964833134&type=3&theater> > moments > <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152257493973135&set=a.10152257440208135.1073741830.339964833134&type=3&theater>, > the best of all being the "Hour of Contribution", where we saw > everyone contributing to the project for an hour, in true open source > fashion. It was a beautiful sight, and a humbling experience. Oh, and > who could forget about the cake > <https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/374262949780533248>! > > But wait, there's more. Work has been going strong on version 3.0 > <https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/tree/3.0> of CakePHP, with the new > ORM almost ready for it's first developer preview release. The roadmap > <https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/wiki/3.0-Roadmap> is slowly being > completed, with the milestone > <https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/issues?milestone=7&state=open> > available for anyone to join in on the fun. In the meantime, this year > saw the release of versions 2.3 and 2.4 of the framework, with a sum > of 28 releases in total. There's also been a lot of activity in the > developer community, with almost 6,000 additional questions tagged > <http://stackoverflow.com/tags/cakephp> on Stack Overflow this past > year alone. We also saw some interesting > <http://patisserie.keensoftware.com/en/cakes> projects > <http://neptunide.com/> released, a couple of videos > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3-S-PDGLG4>, interviews > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSKL-QtuOcI> and books > <http://www.packtpub.com/develop-a-feature-rich-cakephp-app/book> > published > <http://www.amazon.com/CakePHP-Unit-Testing-das-Radharadhya-ebook/dp/B00BNHWZTS>, > a few useful <http://dogmatic69.com/sql-to-cakephp-find-converter> > tools <http://dogmatic69.com/cakephp-schema-checker>, as well as some > nice cheat <http://cakephpcheatsheet.com/> sheets > <http://sandbox.pontefamily.us/pages/cakephp_cheat_sheet>. Not to > mention some great <http://friendsofcake.com/> initiatives > <http://www.scoop.it/t/cakephp-reporter>, and of course, an honorable > mention to core member Jose Gonzalez, who delivered a total of 25 > successive posts on his blog as part of his CakePHP advent > <http://josediazgonzalez.com/2013/12/01/testing-your-cakephp-plugins-with-travis/> > series. For all our Japanese developers, there was a similar > <http://www.adventar.org/calendars/40> series created previous years. > > Overall, 2013 was an amazing year, and one to be proud of as a member > of the community! A big thank you goes out to everyone who has been > involved and helped make CakePHP what it is - a framework built by the > community! Thank you. > > Link: > http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/jameswatts/2013/12/29/cakephp_community_2013 > > -- > Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP > Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "CakePHP" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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