At this year’s FOSDEM (free and open source software developer’s European meeting) Garrett Woodworth (probably better known as gwoo) gave a talk about CakePHP. This talk (among many others) is now available as a video in the Ogg format (the duration is around 50 minutes). You can find the slides from the talk on http://cakephp.org/downloads. There you will also find some slides from CakeFest talks.
Yeah the talk was great but the beer afterwards was even better ;)
Too little time to talk about all the cake goodies.
@Marcin: *g*
It was a nice talk, probably easy enough to get for those who never tried Cake. He even finished it 30 seconds early :p
The answers to the questions were a bit meh, though. Sure, PHP *is* a templating engine but saying that Cake performed better than Rails without having done any tests (that’s what I understood anyway) remembered me of a teaching assistant who used to troll on how MySQ sucked compared to Oracle. Well, he had never tested Oracle but it looked like it was better.
@Xr: I think he tried to cover too much stuff, and so I guess it is rather difficult for a newbie to get it. But I can be wrong.
And I agree with you that you have to take statements about performance with a pinch of salt.