Some things I want to give a try: results
Some months ago, I said I wanted to test several things, and here are the results:
- CakePHP: it's promising although it lacks lots of documentation and I don't have time to guess how does it work. I'll wait until it is a bit more consolidated to have another look. I have been testing it today with a local copy of the xplsv.tv database (to have some real data where the tables are more related than in my blog), and although I managed to create the models, controllers, views and so on, I get stuck when it comes to simple things like specifying the relationships between tables, the maximum number of records retrieved each time… I know I could go and find the answers by digging into the code but hey, I want to save time, not spend it guessing how things work…
- Flock: it didn't appeal to me, I don't use blogger as my blog platform and in general it didn't look much better than camino or firefox. It even was a bit slow. More of a hype than nothing really impressing. I'll have to wait a bit more, as its team said they are working on new improvements.
- Pong: I ignored it completely. In fact I am using ping-o-matic.
- flash 8: not yet…
- ruby on rails: no time either :-(
And that's all!
Daniel Hofstetter
20060129
Have you tried the manual at http://manual.cakephp.org?
sole
20060129
cool! that manual looks promising, but why couldn't I find it before? I think the website is a bit confusing. Now I have realized that if I leave the mouse a bit over "Cake PHP sites" a menu appears. Wouldn't it be more useful to put an explicit link which says "Documentation"? Like, for example, in http://smarty.php.net/ or http://rubyonrails.org/
That way people won't get lost and assume things before appropiate. And now I'm going to have a good read of that manual, thank you so much for that link!!
Walker Hamilton
20060925
Actually, use this manual: http://cakeforge.org/projects/cakedocs/
I program my apps with it open. And use the pdf search functionality in either Adobe Acrobat or Preview (OS X) to find information about what I'm looking for.
sole
20060925
I see. Well I was using the online manual which is in the site, plus some specific doubts to be looked for in the API. This project has improved a lot since I wrote this post; I'm now writing some application using cake but still haven't nothing to show to the world :)
But thanks anyway!