This video shows you how to create a weblog engine from scratch using Akelos in just 12 minutes, we implement comments and an administrative interface, so we also had time to cover other Akelos PHP Framework areas.

You can either watch it there on the page or download the quicktime video to watch and learn.

At 20 minutes, it is a little longer than I wanted, but hopefully future casts will shorten with experience. This is planned to be the first of a series of screencasts, not just about Migrations, but about life with Cake. So without further ado, I proudly present Screencast Episode 1: How to use CakePHP Database Migrations.

The screencast is a Quicktime movie download coming in at 32mb, but is worth checking out if you're interested in working with the migration functionality in CakePHP.

Beta 3 release marks the first time the FastCGI feature has been a part of a Windows release, enabling PHP and other application frameworks to run on Windows with great performance and reliability. Making them a part of IIS and Windows means no more downloading and installing other components, or worrying about whether the tools you are using are supported, patched and ready for production use.

The video itself (Quicktime, Windows Media) shows how to make the install and how to use the output caching feature he previously talked about to enhance the performance of your applications. For those that don't want to bother with the video (or can't view it for whatever reason), he also includes the steps at the bottom of the post.

These are just the first in a series, too. He plans to create more to cover the entire functionality of the framework. You'll need QuickTime to view them, and they range in time depending on the subject matter - anywhere from one to four minutes.