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Cake 1.3 has been around for quite some time now, but I never had the desire to upgrade with it being in such a beginning stage. Well seeing as how its now in Alpha and many users are testing it with no problems, I thought it would be a good idea. Heres how it went. Continue reading...

Its been over a month since I posted an entry and even longer then that since it was a CakePHP entry. My goal was to post on average two entries a week, or at most 10 entries a month, but I have failed to do that so I am sorry. I mainly have been absent because of my new job I started on November 2nd, and it has been taking up most of my time and day. Furthermore, I haven't worked in CakePHP for months, seeing as how I have no new projects or features to add to my existing ones. Continue reading...

If you are a CakePHP developer, I am almost certain you have run into this problem on multiple occasions. What problem are you referring to you ask? Well, the problem that you have when your Model is not being found and Cake automatically substitutes it with AppModel. Here's how to fix those problems. Continue reading...

By now most of you have heard that the awesome Nate Abele (which I had the privilege of talking to and partying with at Zendcon) is leaving the CakePHP team. A lot of developers were taken back by this and are unsure if they should continue to develop with CakePHP. Now, I find this ludicrous on many levels. Sure Nate was the lead developer, but that doesn't mean he was the only one. We still have the mighty Mark Story and the returning Larry Masters. Continue reading...

For the past month I have been talking about CakePHPs lack of a built in uploader component or mechanism, and how I wanted to build one. Well I went ahead and did that, and now its available. The Uploader is primarily used as an all purpose file uploader and was built to not interact with a model/database. Here is a quick rundown of the plugin. Continue reading...