Re: Post idea: Long term, large scales projects with CakePHP

2014-08-15 Thread José Lorenzo
I really like the idea David, CakePHP definitely needs more and better marketing. What I disagree with is that only a core developer or something with a lot of experience can write such articles or help promoting the framework, anyone could start adding their experiences with CakePHP, even

Re: Post idea: Long term, large scales projects with CakePHP

2014-08-15 Thread Stephen S
I'd love to contribute to this also if you wish, so just a little about my experience, I first started using 1.x roughly back in 2006/2007 and the majority of my projects since have been created in CakePHP. I've used other frameworks in between but I have a lot of things to say in favour of

Re: Post idea: Long term, large scales projects with CakePHP

2014-08-15 Thread David Yell
The reason I included the bit about the 'core developer' was because they would have the best understanding of how the core components work and which software design principles they encompass. I do agree that we can all do something to help market the framework, but marketing needs to come from

Re: Post idea: Long term, large scales projects with CakePHP

2014-08-15 Thread David Yell
So I have created the repo and put some placeholder files in there, with a bit of copy. If I need to write about the software patterns I will need to learn the core and learn about software patterns, so that one might take a while. I'll work on the tips and tricks mostly, as long as I can

Re: Post idea: Long term, large scales projects with CakePHP

2014-08-15 Thread David Yell
It would have been super helpful to include the link to the repo, d'oh https://github.com/davidyell/BakeYourDreams -- 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

Post idea: Long term, large scales projects with CakePHP

2014-08-14 Thread David Yell
*TL;DR*, Tell people why and how a RAD framework can compete with the likes of Symfony for larger projects which have a long lifetime. As we all know CakePHP get's a pretty bad rep in the PHP community and no more so than from the Symfony corner. They love to belittle the framework and