Hi, I'm Mark Story. I'm a developer / illustrator. I work at Sentry during the day, and build CakePHP at other open source at night. I work primarily in PHP, JavaScript and Python, but love to learn others.

Building a new migrations backend for CakePHP

During the development of CakePHP, we also wanted to update migrations to be compatible. However, we had stumbled into a tedious dependency graph. Currently phinx relies on cakephp/database. While cakephp/migrations depends on phinx. In order to do a major release on cakephp/migrations (to provide CakePHP 5.

My Upgrades to CakePHP 4.5.0

A few months back I upgraded docket and this site to CakePHP 4.5 from an earlier 4.x release. I wanted to share my notes from the upgrade process so that if you’re considering an upgrade you have a better idea of what to expect.

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