Something on Everything

Almost a month now since I started publishing some code and, well, everything is going just fine.
I’m deep involved on my company’s projects and having little to no time at all to contribute with some enhancements I planned for projects I like to support.
So, let’s review how things are going and talk about upcoming plans.

Some refactoring and fixing were made on LazyLoaderBehavior, thanks to some troubles Nachopitt pointed out that he was having. Also thanks to ‘lorenzo’, that suggested support for additional query parameters – allowing more control over n:1 and n:n relations

$this->Post->getCommenters('active', array('email LIKE' => '%gmail%'))

Also, support for a more readable usage of the ‘load instance’ feature on 1:1 relations was implemented

$this->Post->getAuthor('instance')

backwards compatibility was maintained and all tests still pass.
LazyLoader is also about to receive one more – and probably last – feature, anytime soon it’s going to be pushed, so keep tunned.

LinkableBehavior had a “major” fix for HABTM associations, so make sure you grab the new version. I’m still trying to put a test case for LinkableBehavior, in the mean time just know that it is tested, but with specific models from the app where it borne, so have no fear.
I’m writing about HABTM pagination with Linkable and how it kicks ContainableBehavior *ss, along with an article about paginating different find types, It shall be done till the end of the year – erhm… gotta run to achieve it!

Mark Story has just pushed FireCake, the CakePHP’s firebug interface, to DebugKit. Haven’t tested it yet, but I’m sure he did a great job. In the mean time… I’m working on IE6 compliances – because I need debug on IError – and lacking of ideas on panels control over the rendering process, it’s needed to resolve the issue where when sqlLog panel is disabled you won’t have the bottom table with the log, which, sometimes, is better.

About all other projects, I’m now focused on the blog release. Yes, I said I wouldn’t, but the high traffic I’m having here needs to be exploited. So as soon as I solve my problems with domain registration I’ll start to use a SCRUM like approach to release it – and we might all see the kid growing.