13 Sep 2010 | 
Category: Why CakePHP documentation sucks and what I'm doing about it
The CakePHP documentation sucks. By sucks I mean dumbasses are unable to read/use/search it. Which translates into more support in IRC, more ass-kicking on my part, and more repetition. I would like a DRY IRC channel. Also, I assume people do not appreciate my smart-ass remarks.
So I'm rewriting the CakePHP Bakery Documentation as a set of tutorials on github. I've been in contact with a few small publishers in the past year, and asked a few questions of an editor, and I realize that rather than trying to get a book published, I'll just offer the stuff for free. Fewer deadlines - actually, none as I don't give a rats ass if I finish - but it also means I can improve it or fix it as time goes on. If I choose to publish it later, and it is any good, I'll just go to a Book-on-Demand service or sell it on Amazon or similar.
It's Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, fyi. Don't sell it please, I'm not making any money off of it atm and don't plan to for a long time.
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