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Prosper is a great speaker, community leader, open source hacker, technical consultant, and a fervent Developer Advocate. He is a full-stack software engineer who has worked on biometric, health and developer tools. Prosper recently co-founded a startup called Eden that’s focused on improving the quality of lives in Nigeria and currently leads the engineering team. He also co-founded forloop, the largest developer community in Africa.

Former Auth0 Employee

Prosper Otemuyiwa

Day 2 of CakeFest. Catch up on everything that went down at the 2017 CakePHP Conference.



Day two of CakeFest consisted of more talks. Several speakers took to the stage, and [Mark Story](https://twitter.com/mark_story) revealed plans for the future of CakePHP. Check out our recap of [Day One](https://auth0.com/blog/cakefest-summary-day-1/) to learn about the talks that happened on the first day.

**[Heather White](https://twitter.com/CattyHeather)** talked about **Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone: Learning to Teach**. She spoke about the different ways of learning. She also talked extensively about adult learners.

You can listen to her session:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Stepping Outside your Comfort Zone: Learning to Teach - Heather White <a href="https://twitter.com/CattyHeather">@CattyHeather</a> <a href="https://t.co/GOLaAQY85u">https://t.co/GOLaAQY85u</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873911256037576704">June 11, 2017</a></blockquote>
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**[Mark Story](https://twitter.com/mark_story)** talked about **CakePHP 3.4 And The Path To 4.0.0**. He talked about the team working towards typehinting and splitting modal methods in *3.2.x* to *3.4.x*. He mentioned that in *4.0* there would be PHP 7.1 support, support will be dropped for PHP 5, strict typehinting, and deprecation cleanup. His session reveals so many things about how CakePHP has transformed over the years and what the public should expect to see in future releases.

You can listen to his session:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">3.4 and the Path to 4.0.0 - Mark Story <a href="https://twitter.com/mark_story">@mark_story</a> <a href="https://t.co/kEB4I2OtHm">https://t.co/kEB4I2OtHm</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873924077768945665">June 11, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Check out his slides: [The Road Ahead - 3.4 and the path to 4.0](https://www.slideshare.net/markstory/cakephp-the-road-ahead)

**[Viraj Khatavkar](https://twitter.com/virajkhatavkar)** talked about **Testing For People Who Hate Testing**. He evangelized the test-driven development approach (TDD). Furthermore, he live-coded a blog on stage by using the test-driven approach and made testing seem very easy to the attendees. Great session!

You can listen to his session:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Testing For People Who Hate Testing - Viraj Khatavkar <a href="https://twitter.com/virajkhatavkar">@virajkhatavkar</a> <a href="https://t.co/G8jTYTgm8D">https://t.co/G8jTYTgm8D</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873957733053022208">June 11, 2017</a></blockquote>
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**[Legendary Femi Taiwo](https://twitter.com/dftaiwo)** talked about **Building for a Million Transactions Per Hour**. His talk was based around the 2015 Nigerian Presidential election case study. His team had 24 days to learn, design, develop, and deploy an election based application. Learn how his team succeeded despite the short notice and how they scaled to accomodate the large Nigerian population.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/dftaiwo">@dftaiwo</a> killing it on &quot;Building for a million transactions per hour&quot; at <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp">@cakephp</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CakeFest2017?src=hash">#CakeFest2017</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cakefest?src=hash">#cakefest</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CakePHP?src=hash">#CakePHP</a> 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 <a href="https://t.co/g1zmkzSmYQ">pic.twitter.com/g1zmkzSmYQ</a></p>&mdash; Prosper Otemuyiwa (@unicodeveloper) <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper/status/873970685122686976">June 11, 2017</a></blockquote>
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You can listen to his session:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Building for a Million Transactions Per Hour - Femi TAIWO <a href="https://twitter.com/dftaiwo">@dftaiwo</a> <a href="https://t.co/BbHfrkhQyZ">https://t.co/BbHfrkhQyZ</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873969687855456257">June 11, 2017</a></blockquote>
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**[Mariano Iglesias](https://twitter.com/mgiglesias)** talked about **Machine Learning: one step closer to J-Day**. Mariano talked extensively about Machine Learning and its application to our every day life.

You can listen to his session:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Machine Learning: one step closer to J-Day - Mariano Iglesias <a href="https://twitter.com/mgiglesias">@mgiglesias</a> <a href="https://t.co/LwCo9b7l6f">https://t.co/LwCo9b7l6f</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873992535466680320">June 11, 2017</a></blockquote>
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The Core CakePHP team came on stage for a lively session of Q&A. It was informative and also hilarious. Check out the [Q & A session here](https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/874012117107580928).

Finally, the conference ended with the cutting of the Cake.

![CakeFest](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/1HD7NMrzROvOW17KpYgSNh/9cc414c5cf70cbf2febbd1795b187f29/cakephp)

![CakeFest Attendees](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/4C2avVhfSm5Oy0gpCf8mHd/eaaf67609e261bc89725d4a1130ddbd6/attendees)
_CakeFest Attendees_

[Larry Masters](https://twitter.com/phpnut/) has announced that next year's CakeFest will happen in Nashville.

## Aside: Securing PHP Applications with Auth0

Are you building a product with PHP? We at Auth0, can help you focus on what matters the most to you, the special features of your product. [Auth0](https://auth0.com/) can help you make your product secure with state-of-the-art features like [passwordless](https://auth0.com/passwordless), [breached password surveillance](https://auth0.com/breached-passwords), and [multifactor authentication](https://auth0.com/multifactor-authentication).

[We offer a generous **free tier**](https://auth0.com/pricing) so you can get started with modern authentication.

## Conclusion

The final day of CakeFest was amazing. The speakers were great, and the sessions were lively and very informative. Kudos to [Megan](https://twitter.com/megslalk) and the team for organizing such an amazing event.

If you are new to *CakePHP*, check out this [excellent tutorial](https://auth0.com/blog/creating-your-first-cakephp-app) that introduces you to the framework and teaches you how to create your first app as well as add authentication to it.


CakeFest 2017 Summary - Day Two

Catch up on everything that went down at the 2017 CakePHP Conference.



The annual [CakeFest](https://cakefest.org) conference is upon us again. A lot of people are excited about the various talks that are lined up. You can find the [schedule](https://cakefest.org/schedule) on the CakeFest website, where all the talks are listed.

In today's article, I'll recap all the talks that happened and the announcements coming out of CakeFest 2017.

**Larry Masters** opened the conference with his keynote.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">CakeFest 2017 Keynote Larry E. Masters <a href="https://twitter.com/PhpNut">@phpnut</a> <a href="https://t.co/ODipR2A4LJ">https://t.co/ODipR2A4LJ</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873523709318799360">June 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Larry announced CakePHP's support for [@OSMIhelp](https://twitter.com/OSMIhelp) and talked about the CakePHP elePHPants that would be available soon for PHP developers to buy. Developers can now buy CakePHP swag from the [Official CakePHP Swag Shop](https://swag.cakephp.org).

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp">@cakephp</a> community will once again be stepping up with a special fundraiser for <a href="https://twitter.com/OSMIhelp">@osmihelp</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CakeFest2017?src=hash">#CakeFest2017</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/php?src=hash">#php</a> <a href="https://t.co/3hYwpRy9w2">https://t.co/3hYwpRy9w2</a> <a href="https://t.co/3n64hWHnD2">pic.twitter.com/3n64hWHnD2</a></p>&mdash; Ed Finkler (@funkatron) <a href="https://twitter.com/funkatron/status/873530826260189188">June 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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![Elephpants](https://images.ctfassets.net/23aumh6u8s0i/5bgawEtewiHfgWytQILRr9/d908e47d96e8aa4994d284c9cff535f0/elephpants)


**[Jose Rodriguez](https://twitter.com/jose_zap)** - *Core Contributor to CakePHP* talked about **10 Ways to improve**. Check out his session:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">10 ways to improve Jose Rodriguez <a href="https://twitter.com/jose_zap">@jose_zap</a> <a href="https://t.co/8RbpeD2PB0">https://t.co/8RbpeD2PB0</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873541328306544640">June 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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**[Legendary Ed Finkler](https://twitter.com/funkatrin)** talked about **Mental Health in the Developer Community**. He spoke against encouraging workaholism. He talked about health issues in the work place and encouraged companies to help their employees maintain work life balance. The healthier an employee, the greater the value he or she brings to the company. You can check out his [OSMI project](https://osmihelp.org) and contribute to the cause.

You can listen to his session below:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Ed Finkler - Stronger Than Fear <a href="https://twitter.com/funkatron">@funkatron</a> <a href="https://t.co/rXzO2bi9ZJ">https://t.co/rXzO2bi9ZJ</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873554203339141120">June 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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**Stefan van Gastel** - Technical Lead, Mobile Apps Military Police at Dutch Ministry of Defence talked about **CakePHP in a containerized (CI/CD) environment**. He spoke on the benefits of managing your apps in containers. He also gave a detailed breakdown of how it works at the Dutch Ministry of Defence.

You can listen to his session:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">CakePHP in a containerized (CI/CD) environment - Stefan van Gastel <a href="https://t.co/JbbRWxyZsL">https://t.co/JbbRWxyZsL</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873564361465380864">June 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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**[Prosper Otemuyiwa](https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper)** talked about **Progressive Web Apps for CakePHP developers**. Yeah, that's me. I spoke about how CakePHP developers can latch on to Progressive Web Apps technology to build web apps that behave like mobile apps and works well across many browsers. I encouraged the developers present at the conference to learn JavaScript and take advantage of its power.

You can check out my session here:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Progressive Web Apps For CakePHP Developers - Prosper Otemuyiwa <a href="https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper">@unicodeveloper</a> <a href="https://t.co/JaZfBZMaQi">https://t.co/JaZfBZMaQi</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873593311629524992">June 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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These are my [slides](https://speakerdeck.com/unicodeveloper/progressive-web-apps-for-cakephp-developers-1).

**[Jeff Kolesnikowicz](https://twitter.com/jkolez)** talked about **Realtime PHP using Websockets**. He explained the realtime architecture and showed a live demo about implementing realtime using websockets.

Check out his session here:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="pl" dir="ltr">Realtime PHP using websockets - Jeff Kolesnikowicz <a href="https://twitter.com/jkolez">@jkolez</a> <a href="https://t.co/CjeOwAfnCf">https://t.co/CjeOwAfnCf</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873605971594969088">June 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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**[Ed Barnard](https://twitter.com/ewbarnard)**: Ed has been a programmer for over three decades. He talked about **CakePHP Prepared Statements Ease MySQL Table Design**. In my opinion, this was the most technical session of the conference. He talked about optimizing MySQL, writing great queries, utilizing prepared statements, and general database design.

Check out his session here:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">CakePHP Prepared Statements Ease MySQL Table Design - Ed Barnard  <a href="https://twitter.com/ewbarnard">@ewbarnard</a> <a href="https://t.co/0N4YoGSOsJ">https://t.co/0N4YoGSOsJ</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873617478445801472">June 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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**[Jose Gonzalez](https://twitter.com/savant)**: Jose is a CakePHP core contributor. He talked about **Open Source Infrastructure**. He informed the audience about how the **opensourceCakePHP** build process is set up, and how he automates everything in a way that newbies can get along really well.

Check out his session here:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Open Source Infrastructure - Jose Gonzalez <a href="https://twitter.com/savant">@savant</a> <a href="https://t.co/xiyeSRYZV8">https://t.co/xiyeSRYZV8</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873638414813241344">June 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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**[Sharon Steed](https://twitter.com/sharonsteed)**: Sharon gave a talk on **Building powerful relationships by communicating with empathy**. She's a stutterer and used herself as an example in many of the use cases she gave about relationships and community.

You can listen to her session here:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Cultivating community: Building powerful relationships by communicating with empathy - Sharon Steed <a href="https://twitter.com/sharonsteed">@sharonsteed</a> <a href="https://t.co/yvi8LwVA57">https://t.co/yvi8LwVA57</a></p>&mdash; CakePHP (@cakephp) <a href="https://twitter.com/cakephp/status/873646769480925184">June 10, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Day 1 ended with some [lightning talks](https://www.pscp.tv/cakephp/1lPJqykgOkNJb).

## Aside: Securing PHP Applications with Auth0

Are you building a product with PHP? We at Auth0, can help you focus on what matters the most to you, the special features of your product. [Auth0](https://auth0.com/) can help you make your product secure with state-of-the-art features like [passwordless](https://auth0.com/passwordless), [breached password surveillance](https://auth0.com/breached-passwords), and [multifactor authentication](https://auth0.com/multifactor-authentication).

[We offer a generous **free tier**](https://auth0.com/pricing) so you can get started with modern authentication.

## Conclusion

Day 1 of CakeFest was awesome. The sessions were great and the attendees really connected well.

To conclude, if you are new to CakePHP, check out this [excellent tutorial](https://auth0.com/blog/creating-your-first-cakephp-app) that introduces you to the framework and teaches you how to create your first app and add authentication to it.


"CakeFest"