On March 5, 2010, I removed my textpattern blog from this server. In 2008, I posted some tutorials about how to work with the ACL and Auth components in CakePHP. Those articles were very popular and I was very happy to get many emails from people telling me how much those tutorials helped them understand that difficult aspect of CakePHP.
Unfortunately, since publishing those tutorials, my attention was drawn far away from the world of CakePHP and I was unable to maintain those tutorials. In 3 years time, a lot has changed in the world of CakePHP, and I feel it is no longer responsible of me to continue distributing tutorials that are possibly misleading or which could even lead someone to make a terrible blunder in something as crucial as an authentication component of a website.