Cake Development Corporation

Jim is from Expungement Assitance Services. They run clearMyRecord.com which helps people get their criminal records expunged. Origami is a proposed solution for automating criminal records relief in the United States. The application helps manage all the different types of forms that need to be filled out. All these forms need to be collected and standardized so that the data can be normalized. This helps to automate future applications, and streamline the the user experience. There was an existing application that had a pile of legacy code. This legacy code was partly written in mandarin, and had a difficult to understand naming convention. The database was a mess, and the identification system was jumbled and difficult to follow.

There were many challenges and requirements that led them to choose CakePHP, including needed features, time, funding and other constraints. Their team faced a few Cake specific challenges. They had trouble with OOP practices, getting sandboxes setup, and some members of their team had challenges with the API documentation and the contents of the book. They also had difficulties figuring out how to implement specific features.

Afterwards there was a quick demonstration of the clearMyRecord application and a sample form was filled out. Even though the team at EAS seemed to face a lot of challenges. Jim seemed to be fairly happy with their choice in frameworks, and would make the same choice again.