If you didn't get a chance to go to CakeFest this time around, you might want to check out this summary from the Debuggable blog about the event.

If you are on twitter, you probably heard that cakefest #3 was beyond awesome again this time around. [...] The conference itself was quite fantastic as well. We had ~70 people at the event, which was a bit of a challenge when trying to pick bars & restaurants at night : ). Pretty much all presentations were fantastic and seemed to be a good mix of different topics.

He also talks about announcements made about the future of the CakePHP framework (a future PHP 5.3 rewrite, updates to the next versions) and some of the other conference-related activities like the workshop days.