Soft delete records, some kind of trash...

Mariano Iglesias wrote an article on the Bakery about Soft deleting records in CakePHP.

CakePHP and MSSQL

It should be possible to have CakePHP directly talking to a Microsoft SQL server, but I don't know how and didn't try it. The advantage of talking directly to MSSQL is that you can use the standard Models.

Use Google Maps in CakePHP

I found an interesting article from Mahmoud Lababidi at the Bakery on integrating Google Maps in your CakePHP application.

Beautiful PHP thumbnail class useful as vendor in CakePHP

I found a very handy thumbnailer class on written by Ian Selby. This class lets you resize your image, but it is also capable of creating the popular Apple Reflection effect.

You can very easily use this class to use it as a vendor in CakePHP.

Have fun!