CakePHP
The yum & the yuck.
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Me
• Developer @ FreshBooks.
• Lead Developer of CakePHP.
• markstory on Github.
• mark_story on Twitter.
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Mistakes
I’ve made a few.
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Success
I’ve had a bit of that too.
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Disclaimer
This is not intended to be mean.
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Community
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Be respectful
Every starts as a newbie.
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No test, no bug
High entry barriers are not healthy
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Set a good example
People will follow.
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Conflicts
Ego, language & culture.
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Be transparent
“Open” is an important part of open source.
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Empower others
Trust people who have proven themselves.
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Documentation
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Maintenance hell
Make docs dead easy to maintain
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3rd Round
Sphinx + Elasticsearch
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Simple tools
Make docs accessible, & easy to contribute to.
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Deployment
Push to
github makejenkins ssh
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Search & offline
docs
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Releases &
Upgrading
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Releasing must
simple
54 release since Oct 2011
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Version numbers
matter.
Semantic versioning is important.
http://semver.org
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Security fixes
Be transparent and respond quickly.
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Breaking
compatibility
Mistakes should be fixed.
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Migration guides
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Upgrade tools
CLI sugar
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Building a
Framework
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Have opinions
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People will hate
you.
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People will love
you.
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Code generation
Powerful, but relies on coupling.
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Intelligent defaults
Make good ideas the standard
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Derp defaults
When ideas age poorly.
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Conventions
And configuration.
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Conventions
Can lead to magic.
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Evil magic
Was meant to help, really.
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Don’t Guess
Computers are stupid.
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Future proof APIs
Option parameters make growing easy.
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“Declarative”
interfaces
Kind of suck in PHP
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Say no to features
Save your sanity.
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In closing,
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Make mistakes
Falling down is how I learn.
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Try this at home
Open source is hard, but rewarding
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Thank you
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