NETTUTS has posted the second part of their series looking at the basics of CakePHP and how you can get started developing.

In our last CakePHP tutorial we looked at setting up the CakePHP framework and introduced some of the framework's basic concepts and terminology [...] In the next set of tutorials we will build the blog application incrementally so that the basic CakePHP development process is laid out clearly instead of briefly mentioned as in other similar tutorials. In this tutorial we start with a basic authoring authentication component for the example blog application.

He's broken it down into a few steps - defining the goal of the application, creating the models to interface with the database, making the views to output the results and making the controllers to bind it all together.