Thanks for all the hard work, its much appreciated. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of teknoid Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 12:04 PM To: CakePHP Subject: Re: the Gift of 1.2 Final
Congrats, guys! Really proud of all of your accomplishments. And of course a big THANK YOU for making my life... oh... just a "little bit" easier ;) On Dec 25, 7:51 pm, Gwoo <[email protected]> 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/cak > ephp > [3]http://ajbrown.org/blog/2008/12/22/four-reasons-to-hate-cakephp.htm > l > [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.ze > adoo.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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. 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