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Jun 29th 2010, 23:56 |
savant |
Works for me, it's what I tell anyone getting into development at my university (as far as cakephp is concerned) and it puts them in a good position to go forward |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:55 |
savant |
and that's basically what I do to get shit done |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:53 |
savant |
although I write several "snippets" myself, mostly undocumented, as github.com/josegonzalez |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:52 |
savant |
they have released code I've found extremely useful |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:52 |
savant |
mcurry, neilcrookes, felixge, szajbus, jrbasso, joebeeson, markstory, ad7six |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:51 |
savant |
the following users rule |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:51 |
savant |
as far as existing code, I go for github. I've memorized lots of neat things and learned how to use them |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:50 |
savant |
*code |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:50 |
savant |
I also recommend neilcrookes.com as Neil usually releases useful cod |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:50 |
savant |
Matt Curry also occasionally does writeups on what code was just released in the wild. Good reads |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:49 |
savant |
he has a way different style of posting and is down to earth. plus it's funny to read |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:49 |
sevennbsp |
savant: yeah, I had no idea who I was talking to until I saw his name on the cake site, and went, whoa, so that was....him. |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:49 |
savant |
the last link I go to a lot is Matt Curry's blog http://www.pseudocoder.com/ |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:49 |
savant |
sevennbsp: markstory is the effing man |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:48 |
savant |
the two devs there are former CakePHP core developers and they still release CakePHP code (although the blog focuses on Node.js now) |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:48 |
sevennbsp |
savant: yeah he's kindly bailed my ass out before I think. I'll check that out too. |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:48 |
savant |
the Older posts at debuggable rule on CakePHP. Some no longer apply, but they can usually be ported to the latest 1.3. http://debuggable.com/posts |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:47 |
savant |
anyhow, since he's the lead dev and extremely active, the posts are very polished and he's happy to answer any and all questions both on his blog and here in IRC (he's in canadia so keep that in mind if you are on the lookout) |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:46 |
savant |
just a personal preference, the code is actually solid |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:46 |
savant |
it's how I learned how acl and auth work, and when I realized I would never use Acl for an App I built |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:46 |
savant |
http://mark-story.com/ |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:46 |
savant |
sometimes it glosses over, but only when it really doesnt matter or is outside the scope |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:45 |
savant |
markstory, the lead developer, has also had some great posts with detailed information about why something works one way or another |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:45 |
sevennbsp |
savant: nice |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:45 |
savant |
I occasionally go back when I forget something weird about saveAll |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:45 |
savant |
Teknoid is where I learned good cake |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:44 |
sevennbsp |
savant: thickheadedidiot.com...? |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:44 |
savant |
teknoid.wordpress.com |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:44 |
savant |
teknoid does really good stuff for beginners |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:44 |
savant |
as far as tutorials are concerned |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:44 |
sevennbsp |
savant: anything with a url? |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:44 |
savant |
depends |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:44 |
savant |
bottle of jack daniels |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:44 |
sevennbsp |
savant: any particular resources you turned to for wisdom? I mean besides Red Bull |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:31 |
xelister |
sevennbsp: it only gets worse with bigger models, don't worry you will be pooling your hairs out soon enough ;) |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:31 |
savant |
sevennbsp: yeah, it took me a while to understand model relationships |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:31 |
savant |
heh |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:31 |
sevennbsp |
savant: cool, I think I get it now. At first all this linking and data model, it is all one big mindfuck. Thanks for the voodoo |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:29 |
savant |
sevennbsp: good, as long as I get the title of head dumbass |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:29 |
savant |
sevennbsp: I simply found the current user fresh from the db and set the company_id |
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Jun 29th 2010, 23:29 |
sevennbsp |
savant: did I mention I'm professonally dumb? |