Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-07 Thread Sliv
If anything, the cake devs are a lot more active on this project than many other open source projects I've come across. I don't see any difference between here and pretty much any app that's out there as far as dev goes; If you want stable, use their stable app, if you want bleeding edge, use the

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-07 Thread AD7six
On Jun 7, 1:51 am, Hanzgroove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You guys are absolutely right, they don't owe me or the community > anything. Its been fun trying to play devil's advocate though : ) Fun for who, good luck getting help in the future. I like the way you implied that writing 1.2 whilst

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-06 Thread Hanzgroove
You guys are absolutely right, they don't owe me or the community anything. Its been fun trying to play devil's advocate though : ) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this g

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-06 Thread Hanzgroove
I've learned my lesson fellas: if() --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EM

RE: General gripes and questions

2007-06-06 Thread Mariano Iglesias
] En nombre de Hanzgroove Enviado el: MiƩrcoles, 06 de Junio de 2007 07:18 p.m. Para: Cake PHP Asunto: Re: General gripes and questions But again, it not just me, multiply that by the thousands of other developers who are asking the same question. I'm just saying out loud

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-06 Thread Joshua Benner
Um... accountability? Did you hire the Cake team? Are they responsible to you in any way? This is their project that they've chosen to share with people. The CakePHP developers are not accountable to anybody but themselves. If you've made decisions that have put you in a bad scenario because o

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-06 Thread Hanzgroove
> > Chris I'll admit that the time lines ARE based on my own personal > > needs. That was the point of my message. But I'm not alone. Add my > > personal needs to the needs of thousands of other programmers who use > > the framework professionally, and it becomes justified to at least ask > > the

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-06 Thread rtconner
As far as "get involved" I've always gotten the feeling that if I modified the code to cake that it would not get acepted. So I never bothered. I've seen some people write wonderful patches and additions, only to see them get rejected. Right now I've been doing a lot in pagination and there are s

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-06 Thread John David Anderson
On Jun 6, 2007, at 3:42 PM, Hanzgroove wrote: > > I've seen many people post the same concerns/frustrations that I have > in this group and they're always met with the same response: > > "Why don't you get involved?" > > How can you get involved if the documentation you're looking for to > learn

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-06 Thread Hanzgroove
I've seen many people post the same concerns/frustrations that I have in this group and they're always met with the same response: "Why don't you get involved?" How can you get involved if the documentation you're looking for to learn the subtleties of the framework is non-existent? Do you sugge

RE: General gripes and questions

2007-06-06 Thread Mariano Iglesias
blog: http://www.MarianoIglesias.com.ar -Mensaje original- De: cake-php@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de Hanzgroove Enviado el: MiƩrcoles, 06 de Junio de 2007 05:04 p.m. Para: Cake PHP Asunto: Re: General gripes and questions Add on the lack of documentation, and it mak

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-06 Thread AcidMaX
Definitely participate if you have issues with timelines. I just started using cake like a week ago and have been helping develop some of the different things within the project. I am by no means a cake expert (more like a novice) but I think every little bit helps when people are actually moving

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-06 Thread John David Anderson
On Jun 6, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Hanzgroove wrote: > Sorry to sound like a jerk but I'm sure all the end users of the Cake > framework can relate to the same frustration. Hey well, the best thing to do with that frustration is make vague criticisms and baseless demands. Hell, its obvious we don't

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-06 Thread Chris Hartjes
On 6/6/07, Hanzgroove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Add on the lack of documentation, and it makes me wonder if my > donations to the Cake project > are just allowing these guys to procrastinate more. If you're willing > to accept my donations, you should > be equally as ready to accept my criticis

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-06 Thread Joshua Benner
That's generally a point made against Open Source -- except that closed source stuff gets pushed back all the time, and is released very buggy. In my experience, when there's a bug in Open Source, we can either fix it or get it fixed within 48 hours -- closed source, we're lucky if our vendors

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-06 Thread Hanzgroove
I think that this is the downside to Open Source in general. There's no one there to police any sort of deadline or release schedule. For example, back in JANUARY I asked this question: -

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-04 Thread mussond
Flogging a dead horse a bit here. But i'd agree that the documentation needs improvement. mainly with examples, I'm new to cake and I'm getting lost easily, I'm currently stuck on how to create a select box and while the api is great for telling me what function to use, the attribute details are

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-04 Thread John David Anderson (_psychic_)
On Jun 4, 2007, at 2:48 PM, Joshua Benner wrote: > > John, > > Yes, I agree. It's not that I feel I'm not allowed to help -- but I'll > admit I don't yet feel authoritative enough to produce solid > documentation. Since I don't know CakePHP from beginning to end yet, I > feel that a solution I m

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-04 Thread Joshua Benner
John, Yes, I agree. It's not that I feel I'm not allowed to help -- but I'll admit I don't yet feel authoritative enough to produce solid documentation. Since I don't know CakePHP from beginning to end yet, I feel that a solution I may propose may be otherwise better accomplished with a feature o

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-04 Thread JDS
Sounds good to me. Expect to see Trac tickets for Manual updates from me on a regular basis. Thanks. On Jun 4, 3:48 pm, "John David Anderson (_psychic_)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 4, 2007, at 12:05 PM, JDS wrote: > > > > > > > On Jun 2, 11:08 pm, Grant Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-04 Thread John David Anderson (_psychic_)
On Jun 4, 2007, at 1:56 PM, Joshua Benner wrote: > > In my recent course of learning CakePHP, I would agree with you. The > available documentation has not been clear on the "magic" that Cake > performs for the coder. A lot of my learning came through trial and > error, because there is magic be

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-04 Thread John David Anderson (_psychic_)
On Jun 4, 2007, at 12:05 PM, JDS wrote: > > On Jun 2, 11:08 pm, Grant Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> * Where is it mentioned how Controllers get access to the models? >> >> http://manual.cakephp.org/chapter/controllers- search for $uses. >> >> The documentation on Model->save() is now wh

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-04 Thread Chris Hartjes
On 6/4/07, JDS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See, this one line, "Your FragglesController will automatically load > $this->Fraggle," is the only place that I have seen in the manual that > says how the controller gets access to the model. But it seems like > this very imortant information should be

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-04 Thread Joshua Benner
In my recent course of learning CakePHP, I would agree with you. The available documentation has not been clear on the "magic" that Cake performs for the coder. A lot of my learning came through trial and error, because there is magic behind the scenes that is not immediately evident from the

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-04 Thread JDS
On Jun 2, 11:08 pm, Grant Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Where is it mentioned how Controllers get access to the models? > > http://manual.cakephp.org/chapter/controllers- search for $uses. > > The documentation on Model->save() is now what you have in your post. > If you just wrote that,

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-04 Thread JDS
Hi. Thanks for your help. I am sorry to have come across all pissy (and I know I did) but it is quite frustrating to learn CakePHP when the documentation really is lacking. It really is. I am not saying it sucks, just that it is inconsistent, incomplete, and shy on examples. And the API is just n

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-03 Thread Bluewake
Hi, thanks. I will look for the documentation project at the cakeforge to join. Greetings, Estela Navarrete. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cak

RE: General gripes and questions

2007-06-03 Thread Mariano Iglesias
BAKE ON! blog: http://www.MarianoIglesias.com.ar -Mensaje original- De: cake-php@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de Bluewake Enviado el: Domingo, 03 de Junio de 2007 02:59 a.m. Para: Cake PHP Asunto: Re: General gripes and questions Hi, about documentation I notice that there are som

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-02 Thread Bluewake
Hi, about documentation I notice that there are some tranlations of the CakePHP manual (I'm interested in spanish translation), but I can't find it. I looked for it here and in http://cakeforge.org/projects/translations/. Where I can find it? Thanks in advance, Estela Navarrete --~--~-~

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-02 Thread Grant Cox
> Biggest gripe with CakePHP: poor documentation. Please note that I am > *not* a PHP newbie, and I do know the essentials that I need to know > to be able to use CakePHP. But I guess I am just used to the > excellent PHP.net documentation... In any case, I am willing to help > clean it up if s

Re: General gripes and questions

2007-06-01 Thread Dr. Tarique Sani
On 6/2/07, JDS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > excellent PHP.net documentation... In any case, I am willing to help > clean it up if someone is willing to point me in the direction of how. sigh! > * What is the flash() method, where is it documented, how do I use > it, and how am I supposed to kn