CakePHP the yum & yuck

CakePHPThe yum & the yuck.

Friday, 4 October, 13

Me

• Developer @ FreshBooks.

• Lead Developer of CakePHP.

• markstory on Github.

• mark_story on Twitter.



MistakesI’ve made a few.


SuccessI’ve had a bit of that too.


DisclaimerThis is not intended to be mean.


Community


Be respectfulEvery starts as a newbie.


No test, no bugHigh entry barriers are not healthy


Set a good examplePeople will follow.


ConflictsEgo, language & culture.


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


Empower othersTrust people who have proven themselves.


Documentation


Maintenance hellMake docs dead easy to maintain


3rd RoundSphinx + Elasticsearch


Simple toolsMake docs accessible, & easy to contribute to.


Deployment

Push to github makejenkins ssh


Search & offline docs


Releases & Upgrading


Releasing must simple

54 release since Oct 2011


Version numbers matter.

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


http://semver.org

http://semver.org

Security fixesBe transparent and respond quickly.


Breaking compatibility

Mistakes should be fixed.


Migration guides


Upgrade toolsCLI sugar


Building a Framework


Have opinions


People will hate you.


People will love you.


Code generationPowerful, but relies on coupling.


Intelligent defaultsMake good ideas the standard


Derp defaultsWhen ideas age poorly.


ConventionsAnd configuration.


ConventionsCan lead to magic.


Evil magicWas meant to help, really.


Don’t GuessComputers are stupid.


Future proof APIsOption parameters make growing easy.


“Declarative” interfaces

Kind of suck in PHP


Say no to featuresSave your sanity.


In closing,


Make mistakesFalling down is how I learn.


Try this at homeOpen source is hard, but rewarding


Thank you


Technology

CakePHP the yum & yuck