letThemCodeCake

“Hi Ian”

I’m a new developer that has been happily <a href=”http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/159″>seduced</a> into doing a project or two in the Cakephp framework.

I’m starting this blog because I feel that the learning curve is still a little bit to high, and despite some very good efforts from the cakephp <a href=”http://bakery.cakephp.org/”>community</a> and <a href=”https://www6.software.ibm.com/developerworks/education/os-php-cake1/”>others</a> to welcome newcomers most of the documentation is either in the form of tutorials, the manual, or message boards.

The tutorials that are out there are great but they can only do so much. The manual is still young and needs more content, and as we all know you can only expect so much out of message boards, sometimes they have exactly what you want, sometimes not.

The theme I get from the manual and the message boards is “if you knew how to use cake this would be easy”.  The theme should be “You’re probably very smart, but you’ve got no experience with our way of doing things and you’ve done this your own way many times before, let’s give you the resources  you need to  start programming more effectively”.

This is my first post,  look out for more posts, asking questions, and giving answers on the fundamentals of cakephp.

Thanks,
Ian