Here at the Hive anyone can host an informal workshop, known as a brown bag, to share learning’s which the team would benefit from or find interesting.
This week I shared my experience about the Migrations Plugin for CakePHP. During GovHack 2012, we had three developer’s actively expanding the Bako schema and the Migrations Plugin provided an effective tool for distributing those changes.
The Migrations Plugin is not only a method of versioning the database schema, it also provides an automated upgrade path for database changes and an interface for migrating data.
Feel free to comment on the presentation if you have any questions.