It's been way to long since my last post. I've been busy at the 9-5 and also working on launching my first startup (Chooey.com).

I saw that Heroku allowed for PHP applications to now be deployed with their cedar stack setup. I thought I would give it a shot and see if I could get CakePHP running in the cloud. It only took me about 20 minutes of reading and tinkering before I got everything working perfectly.

I will be documenting CakePHP on Heroku with a simple blog I've set up at cakeblog.heroku.com. If you are interested take a look and if you have any questions feel free to give me a shout.

Check out Cake on Heroku!

I recently moved back home to Toronto, Canada after living in Asia for almost 6 years. I decided it was time to move back and get a "real" job since freelance and contract work was starting to die down.

Upon my arrival I started work with a company downtown Toronto, BetterTheWorld.com. I was hired as a Sr. PHP Developer to work with their current platform and help design and build out new properties. We are currently using Croogo to rebuild one of our current properties and will be open sourcing some of the plugins we develop.

Hopefully I will have some free time to write some more articles on Croogo, CakePHP, web development and release some more code. Stay tuned and subscribe to my RSS feed.

I just saw this on Twitter while doing a search for Croogo related news. It looks like Matt Curry has released a plugin that will migrate your Wordpress blog over to Croogo. I would give this a shot but I'm currently not running any Wordpress sites. This is great news for any CakePHP developer running a Wordpress blog looking to switch over to the CakePHP based Croogo.

Right now it looks like it migrates most data, but I would test it on a development server before you migrate your production blog.

Check out the plugin on Matt Curry's Github repo

Fahad, the lead developer followed through with his promise of delivering Croogo 1.2 before the end of the month. The new release packs a handful of new features that extend Croogo's functionality. A few of my favourites include the new hook and plugin system and custom helpers for themes.

I plan on upgrading this weekend to 1.2 and I'm excited to see what the future holds for the next release.

Read more on Fahad's blog

Most popular blogging engines allow you to categorize your blog posts by month. This is a simple code snippet to achieve monthly archives in your Croogo installation. You can find the code and installation instructions in the link below. If you have any questions, comments or find a bug leave a comment on the code's page.

Croogo Monthly Archives