We have decided to start pushing education and different technologies by giving away educational material on every 1st and 15th of the month.  There is no catch, but be sure to read the directions below on how to enter.

Book topics that will be included in the giveaway are:

• CakePHP
• Ajax (in particular JQuery)
• MySQL
• No-SQL Databases (ie. Mongo, Cassandra, Couch DB)
• PHP
• Zend Framework
• Project Management
• (Possibly More)

To be included in the drawing for each part of the month, you simply need to post a tweet that mentions Loadsys (@loadsys) and tag it with CakePHP (#cakephp).  It would also be helpful to follow us so you can get notified when we draw the name.  We will only ask for more information privately when we need to ship out the book.

Although it won’t help you, clever or off-the-wall tweets  are perfectly fine.  Just make the mention and the tag.  Be sure to let all of your friends on Twitter know if they are interested in winning.

(Example Tweet:  @loadsys Please Please Please give me a #CakePHP book. )

Drawings will be done at Noon Central Standard Time (-5 GMT / -6 GMT).   That means tweets performed between 12:01 on the 1st through 11:59:59 on the 15th will be in the 15th drawing…for example.

Good Luck!

Hello fellow bakers!  Our team at Loadsys is proud to announce our sponsorship of the 2010 CakePHP CakeFest conference in our home town of Chicago, IL USA.  We are excited to both attend and contribute to the conference this year.  The last conference our team attended was in Orlando, FL in 2008 when CakePHP was still at a young age.  We cannot wait to see how much the conference and community has grown since that time.

Our team has been using CakePHP for over 3 years and it is our framework of choice for custom web application development.  Some of you may have even used some of our plugins or helpers we have contributed.   As our company grows we are looking for ways to contribute to the community more and therefore plan to release more code over the upcoming year.

In addition to development, our team offers CakePHP consulting for teams or developers, so don’t be afraid to get in touch with us if you need some guidance.

We will have 3 team members (Donatas, Joey, and Lee)  attending the conference, so if you are looking to meet up, please let us know.   Or if you just want to go out for a beer, we are a-ok with that as well.  Also, if you are a developer in the Chicagoland area, definitely get in touch with us.  We are looking for talented Cake developers.

We look forward to seeing everyone there, hearing some good talks, and hearing about what is up and coming for CakePHP and the community.

See you at CakeFest!

Lee Forkenbrock
Project Manager / Web Developer
Loadsys