CakePHP the yum & yuck

CakePHPThe yum & the yuck.

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Me

• Developer @ FreshBooks.

• Lead Developer of CakePHP.

• markstory on Github.

• mark_story on Twitter.

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MistakesI’ve made a few.

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SuccessI’ve had a bit of that too.

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DisclaimerThis is not intended to be mean.

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Community

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Be respectfulEvery starts as a newbie.

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No test, no bugHigh entry barriers are not healthy

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Set a good examplePeople will follow.

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ConflictsEgo, language & culture.

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Be transparent“Open” is an important part of open source.

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Empower othersTrust people who have proven themselves.

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Documentation

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Maintenance hellMake docs dead easy to maintain

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3rd RoundSphinx + Elasticsearch

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Simple toolsMake docs accessible, & easy to contribute to.

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Deployment

Push to github makejenkins ssh

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Search & offline docs

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Releases & Upgrading

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Releasing must simple

54 release since Oct 2011

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Version numbers matter.

Semantic versioning is important.http://semver.org

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Security fixesBe transparent and respond quickly.

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Breaking compatibility

Mistakes should be fixed.

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Migration guides

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Upgrade toolsCLI sugar

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Building a Framework

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Have opinions

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People will hate you.

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People will love you.

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Code generationPowerful, but relies on coupling.

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Intelligent defaultsMake good ideas the standard

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Derp defaultsWhen ideas age poorly.

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ConventionsAnd configuration.

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ConventionsCan lead to magic.

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Evil magicWas meant to help, really.

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Don’t GuessComputers are stupid.

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Future proof APIsOption parameters make growing easy.

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“Declarative” interfaces

Kind of suck in PHP

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Say no to featuresSave your sanity.

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In closing,

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Make mistakesFalling down is how I learn.

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Try this at homeOpen source is hard, but rewarding

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Thank you

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