Book release: CakePHP 1.3 Application Development Cookbook

Just a few days ago, I was happy to see my first book published. Entitled CakePHP 1.3 Application Development Cookbook, it’s a book released in the form of a cookbook, with a series of solutions to common problems one faces when developing CakePHP applications.

While working on it, I tried to aim for developers at different levels of knowledge, yet a disclaimer has to be made: this is not a beginners book. It will not teach you how to install CakePHP, or how to get its friendly URLs working on Microsoft platforms (dodged that bullet.) It is written for CakePHP developers that are looking to solve different problems, and leverage their own applications. So no “building a blog” chapter in this book.

There are some recipes that deal with more complex topics, while others deal with what I consider interesting solutions to simple problems. Each recipe starts by proposing a problem, showing the solution, and giving an explanation of how the solution works. Most of the recipes include alternatives and extend the topic at hand beyond the scope of the problem they are solving, and some of them are based on open source packages that CakePHP community members (myself included) released.

This book also benefited from an unbelievably, super-cool, top of the world team of technical reviewers (the CakePHP 1.3 lead developer happens to be amongst them) that made its code shine (I am known for being humble.) They improved each recipe and proposed awesome alternatives to my original ideas. Because of that, this blog post is being written. I’m not sure sure I would’ve been as proud of the original version of the book

You should also know that the publishing company behind the publication of this book, Packt Publishing, is donating an important portion of the book earnings to the Cake Software Foundation, which is like The Force behind CakePHP. So I might not get rich, but at least the foundation will get some beers out of each sale. And trust me, nothing says thank you like a beer.

If you bought the book, I welcome any feedback you may have (you could also leave a review and tell others how super cool the book is.) If you are more of a bytes person and less of a paper person, and look forward to reading the digital version, you can also get the ebook.

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