I recently found out that a cakephp beginners tutorial I wrote over 2 years ago when I first started learning cakephp, has recently been plagiarised by "Jagat Singh" of www.jagatsingh.com
The plagirised version of my tutorial is at http://www.jagatsingh.com/blogs/2008/10/09/beginners-guide-to-cakephp-windows/ and it's pretty obvious where it's been edited, for starters he didn't even bother to read through it when doing a copy+paste job, as in the example code you can clearly still see "stickymaddness" along with my email address. Right at the end of the article it's obvious where he chopped off my closing paragraph and added his own as the tone of the article completely changes. Secondly the article is really out dated now as at the time I was only starting to learn cakephp 1.1, but he passes it off as being for both cakephp 1.1 & 1.2, anyone who has only even briefly used cakephp would know that 1.2 does not have .thtml files! After looking at some more of "his" other cakephp articles ( http://www.jagatsingh.com/blogs/category/cakephp/ ) which I have no doubt he has plagiarised as well, I saw another article that I recognised http://www.jagatsingh.com/blogs/2008/10/09/cakephp-quick-tips/ This article is a ripoff/splicing together of Tim Koschützki's "Make your life easier with these five CakePHP Quicktips" and teknoid's "15 Essential CakePHP Tips" article. Other interesting/concerning pages by Jagat are http://jagat-singh.blogspot.com/2008/08/learn-cakephp-and-php-within-two-month.html http://www.ahaan.com/prodreview/products/shared/19 While "this is the internet, these type of things are to be expected", I still think this was worth bringing to peoples attention, as "Jagat Singh" is promoting himself and possibly profiteering by ripping off other peoples hard work. When this was first discovered two comments where made on his site, both of which he deleted, I have also emailed him the link to this post, so if this is somehow a misunderstanding he is more than welcome to comment here. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
