If there’s ever a quintessential application to build when you first dive into a framework, it’s the blog. That’s what I did with Snook.ca when I first got into CakePHP.

Then for a recent client project, also built using CakePHP, I was asked to integrate a blog. I took this opportunity to take a chunk of the code I used to build my own site and break it out into its own blog plugin: Snogs. [...]