I’ve been working with a lot of cakephp(php framework) lately. Well not working with it but trying to learn it for my job, so far its going rather well. Someone I’ve been following is David Golding:
http://www.davidgolding.net/
He’s a well known php developer/cakephp and author.
- Is there a blog? Yes
- Twitter? He does not advertise his twitter account on his blog.
- Tutorials? (either for personal site or for other sites/resources) Yes, he has great video screencasts about cakephp.
- Message board presence? Yes, he has a message board in which he has replied to visitors.
- Facebook? He does not advertise one on his blog.
- LinkedIn? He has an article about building links and using LinkedIn but I’m not sure if he uses it.
- Classes or presentations? He has screencast presentations. I dont think he has classes
- Other? He’s an author of a Cakephp book.
His blog is very effective for him I believe. He uses it to provide useful information about php and cakephp topics. He also updates his users on changes to his book.
His screencasts are also a really good addition to his site which would bring his visitors back just to reference these. They cover some great topics that beginning cakephp developers would need to know like scaffolding, understanding mvc, using bake to get the basic structure of your models, views, and controllers built quickly.
Since he does answer his visitors questions in his forum I think that helps to build his credibility showing he’s around. He even answers his contact forms personally, or at least I think it was him. As I emailed him with some questions and he responded back to me within a half hour!
Lastly, he is an author of cakephp. Having a book in the field of php is great marketing for him as I’m sure it brings in lots of visitors to his website and blog.
