It is very difficult to find websites that are using the Cake framework and hence the success of this great framework is very difficult to measure. I thought of posting this on the bakery in the interest of finding other websites that run using cake.

I have been in the technology industry for over 12 years, starting my career as a developer. I have not written a single line of code in over 8 years and have mostly dealt with enterprise level systems although I have run IT infrastructure for a web based company and thus understand the Internet.

When we decided to launch our own company, LAMP stack was a good choice as it offered as easy way to build and a cheaper means to deploy. But using PHP meant deviating away from the MVC framework which I loved and something that kept building and management of web applications easy. My research led me to the Cake Framework.

It took me a while to get used to its syntax and while there is some good written material out there, the bakery, the manual in cakephp.org and the Google groups really helped me. It would be nice if someone authored a good book on Cakephp.

I took about 4 months to build and launch my website (http://www.nuuvoo.com) working part-time. The last month, I have spent quite a bit of time as the website was mostly built and the excitement of launch prompted a slurry of feature additions. Within 2 weeks of launch, we are showing up on some Google search results as well.

Cake framework really rocks as I could not have built it without the MVC framework for PHP. Using only PHP would have discouraged me.

I want to thank everyone who have built this framework and continue to enhance it. I do hope that someone who is an expert in technical writing and is hoping to publish their first book will take the interest and write a book.

I am also interested in finding out other websites that run on Cake and share their interests with the community. Please respond to this post with your experiences.

Thanks.
Sai
http://www.nuuvoo.com