Thanks for all your hard work !
On Dec 25, 4:51 pm, Gwoo <gwoo.cake...@gmail.com> wrote:
> //Warning: this message is long and full of goodies.
>
> History does not happen, it is made.
>
> Today, the history of the CakePHP grows stronger. December 25, 2008
> will be remembered as one of the most important points in this
> history. After exactly 2 yrs from the first development release, we
> can happily say we have the most stable and powerful web framework
> available. Please enjoy our big present to you, CakePHP 1.2 stable
> [1]. For this release, we have removed the test files from the build,
> and created a tag in SVN.
>
> Through the last two years, we have been blessed by a dedicated,
> talented, and opinionated community[2]. We have shared disagreements
> [3] and triumphs. We have won popularity contests[4] and been hated
> on. We have seen CakePHP grow into a truly international community[5].
> All of these events have generated an immense amount of passion for
> CakePHP.
>
> No one is more passionate about CakePHP than the developers[6] who
> close tickets and fix bugs. We started out two years ago with a small
> team that dedicated countless hours to implementing new features into
> 1.2 and maintaining 1.1 stable. This team ensured the integrity of
> code and vision of the project. When we needed to grow, we found
> members of the community who showed the same amount of dedication and
> passion for CakePHP. And with the launch of CakeBOOK,
> onhttp://book.cakephp.org,
> we have seen the dedication and passion further extend to all the
> contributors and translators[7] of the fantastic documentation that
> makes learning about the power of CakePHP a bit easier.
>
> We have seen CakePHP adopted by large projects[8] and the growth of
> dedicated service companies[9]. We have held a workshop[10] to spread
> the knowledge and passion of CakePHP. And ultimately, we implemented a
> huge list of features...
>
> - Tests!
> - All classes are test-covered, with good code coverage
> - Test suite now integrated into the framework
> - test generation
> - support for coverage analysis
> - Command-line infrastructure
> - with more shell scripts and ability to write custom ones
> easily
> - Plugin architecture
> - Plugins are now distributable as packaged collections of
> files
> - Can be loaded from your main app with a dot syntax
> - Internationalization and Localization support
> - i18n and l10n classes
> - Support for unicode strings
> - Auth component
> - automatically handles sessions for authenticated users
> - ties into ACL for automatic denial of protected content or
> actions
> - Email component
> - for generation of text and html email
> - Security component
> - HTTP auth support, great for web services
> - CSRF protection
> - Cookie component
> - for secure cookie handling
> - Custom model finders
> - simplified syntax
> - powerful and extensible
> - Join models
> - for modeling and accessing HABTM join tables
> - Behaviors, new way to extend models
> - Supports "mixing in" new functionality
> - Containable behavior
> - simplified query optimization
> - Validation system extended
> - with new Validation class, lots of rules
> - multiple rules and messages
> - Database drivers
> - support for many more databases including DB2 and Oracle
> - Caching
> - Adapter-driven caching, with support for APC/XCache/Memcache
> - Set class,
> - for magical array hacking
> - Socket and HttpSocket classes
> - for dealing with remote data and services
> - Debugger class, for detailed introspection of errors
> - Get stack traces anywhere in your code
> - Introspected help on errors, with context information
> - Pagination
> - one of the first additions to the new version
> - one of the simplest systems known
> - Proper Routing
> - mapResources() method for exposing controllers via REST
> - Reverse routing support
> - Named arguments
> - Magic variables for common regexes
> - Support for file extensions with custom content type
> mappings
> - View stuff
> - Separate templates for different content types
> - automatic switching with RequestHandler
> - New helper callbacks
> - renderElement() replaced with element(), added built-in
> caching
> support
> - FormHelper
> - All form-related methods moved here
> - New dot notation
> - Support for associations and multiple records
> - Huge automation and introspection support; form creation
> requires
> very little code
> - Configure and App classes
> - for configuration and loading
> - Replaces defines and global functions
>
> We hope that was a fun read. The changes since 1.1 have been dramatic,
> but to us this was the minimum set of features needed to a truly
> powerful framework and realize our vision for maintainability,
> flexibility, and extensibility.
>
> Almost as dramatic as the feature set, was the growth of the community
> over this time, especially with its adoption of testing. We are proud
> of the fact that Cake is one of the most test covered frameworks. Test
> coverage allows us to fix more bugs and produce the most stable
> framework available. We believe that a feature is not truly a feature
> if there is even one known bug. With that in mind, each release comes
> with the expectation that no bugs are known at the time.
>
> Many of you may remember the first release of 1.2. Back on Dec 25,
> 2006 we released at revision 4206. Many features had not been
> implemented or finalized, but we had a taste of what was to come. With
> this release at [7958], we have come a long way. But possibly the
> most exciting aspect of being where we are on Dec 25, 2008, is what we
> expect to see in the future.
>
> CakePHP helps build amazingly powerful applications. We have a running
> list of examples[11]. Many of these applications were built with
> earlier versions of 1.2. With the release of CakePHP 1.2 stable, we
> expect these applications to enjoy a long history, just like the
> CakePHP project itself.
>
> If you have made it this far, we would like to pass on a few extra
> goodies we have been working on. First is the all new Cake 1.2
> cheatsheet. The old CakeSheet has proved to be a simple, quick
> reference to some of the power of CakePHP. This new version is the
> start of several more to come. Second, the gorgeous DebugKit plugin.
> This plugin helps you develop your application faster by providing
> quick, easy access to a lot of valuable debugging information.
> DebugKit also provides and excellent example of how you can build
> plugins to extend the functionality of you application. Finally, for
> all the TextMate users out there we have an updated CakePHP TextMate
> bundle. Joel Perras has put in a great amount of work and coding
> CakePHP in TextMate just got a lot easier thanks to him. For all
> these great resources and more, head on over to the downloads[12]
> page.
>
> We hope you enjoy the big present and the few goodies. Have a great
> holiday season.
> - Gwoo, Nate, PhpNut and the rest of the CakePHP team
>
> [1]http://cakeforge.org/frs/?group_id=23&release_id=433
> [2]http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/,http://www.ohloh.net/p/cakephp
> [3]http://ajbrown.org/blog/2008/12/22/four-reasons-to-hate-cakephp.html
> [4]http://php-mag.net/magphpde/magphpde_news/psecom,id,26752,nodeid,5.html,http://www.brownphp.com/2008/12/popular-php-frameworks-whats-your-fav/
> [5]http://archive.fosdem.org/2008/,http://conference.cakephp.jp/,http://cakefest.org/
> [6]https://trac.cakephp.org/wiki/Contributors
> [7]http://book.cakephp.org/stats
> [8]https://addons.mozilla.org/,http://www.livemocha.com/,http://www.zeadoo.com/
> [9]http://cakedc.com,http://debuggable.com,http://sanisoft.com
> [10]http://debuggable.com/posts/workshop-day-2:48c51df7-4fd4-4906-8b1f-6e...
> [11]http://book.cakephp.org/view/510/Sites-in-the-wild
> [12]http://cakephp.org/downloads
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