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!

Tonight we held Toronto's first CakePHP meetup (or so we think). I did a talk on RESTful web development with CakePHP and demoed building a RESTful application with CakePHP and consuming the REST API with CakePHP's built in HttpSocket class. Ryan White did a presentation on localization using the built in translate behaviour and I18n as well as caching in CakePHP.

I will keep you posted on future CakePHP meetups in the Toronto area.

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.

After a long hiatus I am back with an update to my Croogo theme 'Simple'. To install simply unzip the theme's folder into the themed directory or use the built in theme uploader in Croogo's administration panel. Look forward to some new posts on Croogo, CakePHP and some other stuff I have going on.

If you have any questions or problems drop me a line in the comments section.

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