Comments on: Review: CakePHP Application Development

By: Eelco Wiersma

Eelco Wiersma — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:55:21 +0000

Hey thanks for adding me to the list also :)

By: Book Review: CakePHP Application Development | PseudoCoder.com

Book Review: CakePHP Application Development | PseudoCoder.com — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:41:17 +0000

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By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:50:57 +0000

@Jason: You are welcome!

By: Jason Leveille

Jason Leveille — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:19:57 +0000

Thanks for adding a link to my review Daniel. BTW, I’ve been reading your blog for a while now. Thanks for all you have provided to the Cake project.

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By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:08:25 +0000

@Khaled, Brendon, Tarique: Thanks for your comments!

@Khaled: Yes, sometimes they could have written shorter explanations, especially if something has already been explained. On the other hand there are probably also parts where more explanations would have been useful, but that’s difficult to gauge for me as I’m not a CakePHP newbie.

@Brendon: Well, this book is not really for advanced Cake developers, it is for people doing their first steps with CakePHP. If you already worked on some Cake projects, you probably won’t find much new stuff in this book.

Anyway, good luck with your first CakePHP project :)

@Tarique: *g*

By: Tarique Sani

Tarique Sani — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:21:17 +0000

Thanks you saved me the trouble of buying the book to satisfy my curiosity ;-)

By: Brendon Kozlowski

Brendon Kozlowski — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:09:41 +0000

I second the last sentiment about the proofreading. Regardless of the seemingly push-to-publish editing, language was created primarily for one person to understand another, and I had little issue understanding what was being said, or meant in the code.

I think I’m to chapter 6 now, and the reading is fairly quick and easy. When you are able to get through “Beginning CakePHP”, Dan, could you give an overview of which book you think would be geared more towards advanced developers at this point in time? I feel like having read through the manual 5 times and now having worked on my first CakePHP project that these books aren’t as relevant as I had hoped…but still very useful – don’t get me wrong there. :)

Thanks for the review!

By: Khaled

Khaled — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:01:23 +0000

yeah I dislike the miss-formatted code blocks ! and also sometimes they wrote some short explanations and othertimes they wrote long long explanation

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:23:37 +0000

@Abhimanyu: Thanks for your comment!

A review of the other book, “Beginning CakePHP”, is coming soon.

And yes, it is a common problem of books covering projects under heavy development: the author(s) start with version x, and at the time the book is published version x + y is already relevant…