Has it really been a year?!

It's been a long time coming, but I've had some free time recently and have decided to dedicate that time to go through all my old plugins and upgrade them all to CakePHP 2.x if they weren't already.

All of my plugins now have a cakephp1.3 branch (for those still on 1.3) and master as the new CakePHP 2.x compliant...

Hi all, I've been working on a catch-all CakePHP Plugin for my company with a number of coligues and I think we've developed enough to blog about some of the cooler features it offers. I'm going to go through them one at a time and post in depth on each one.
The first one I want to talk about is Versioning.

Model Versioning -- The Ability...

I ran into a very peculiar problem when trying to run my CakePHP tests on my mac the other day. I would go to run my cake test command and it would just exit immediately -- no errors, no output, nothing.


Odd, the rest of my shell commands worked perfectly. I...

Easy interaction, file uploading/downloading/management of Rackspace's CDN service.

CakePHP, CloudFiles, and You -- The Perfect Threesome

I've had the fun task of creating an interface to the popular Rackspace Cloud Files service. If you don't know what that is, its a service that allows you to store unlimited amounts of data remotely and se...

Due to all the spam I've archived the current comment system and am starting to use disqus. There are a few good reasons for this. One, I can now easily monitor and approve comments. Two, you can subscribe to just the blog comments you want, and you don't have to post to subscribe to the blog comments. Three, you can actually use your favorit...

UPDATE 3

This update is now complete, all changes have been merged into master and you should update your plugins accordingly. The newest version is v3.1.1. Thank you all for your patience and continued support of the plugin.

UPDATE 2

I've forced the master branch of the plugin to be version v2.5.0 (the stable version). You can simp...

It's been a while since I've posted, I've been doing a lot of work on various fun projects and just haven't had the time to formally post about all the cool things I've been doing. I figured with a new plugin deserves a new blog post. So, here I am -- lets talk log files and how they suck.

Log files.. more like lame files

Log files can be...

I've recently made and submitted a screencast to http://tv.cakephp.org on how to integrate Facebook into your CakePHP application.


http://tv.cakephp.org/video/webtechnick/2011/01/12/nick_baker_--_facebook_integration_with_cakephp

Integrating Facebook into your CakePHP application. Complete step by step from bake, Facebook application ...