The purpose of this site is to povide a tool for Hotel Ezra Cornell attendees for the weekend of the conference and before & after networking / research. It may also provide a medium through which potential guests / attendees can learn more about HEC.
HEC Mobile Website uses 4 open-source technologies to accomplish what it does:
- CakePHP for all of the back-end site functionality.
- MySQL for database storage.
- jQuery Mobile for the mobile interface & mobile JS.
- Sass and Compass to write & compress the CSS used.
CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like Active Record, Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC. Our primary goal is to provide a structured framework that enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss to flexibility.
Useful links:
- The Cake Software Foundation - promoting development related to CakePHP
- CakePHP - the rapid development PHP framework
- Cookbook - user documentation for learning about CakePHP
- API - quick reference to CakePHP
- The Bakery - everything CakePHP
- The Show - live and archived podcasts about CakePHP and more
- CakePHP TV - screen casts from events and video tutorials
- CakePHP Google Group - community mailing list and forum
#cakephpon irc.freenode.net - chat with CakePHP developers