It's been an interesting weekend, and after a lot of template tweaking from Styleshout, I've managed to make Neutrino work with a slick new look. Here's a tip:

When you're creating an application with CakePHP, think in advance about templates and themes, it will make your life easier.

So here's what's new:

• new default look
• major code cleanup. (As I'm getting familiar with Cake, I'm starting to realize how much some bits of my code stink. But, I was expecting that anyway, it's always like that when you learn new tricks.)
• article comments are now paginated in AJAX (finally!)
• most of the input is validated a lot better than before (praise for the new 1.2 validation)
• bakery-like "save and continue editing" feature for articles and article categories
• Google sitemap

I was also trying to make the models a bit fatter and controllers a bit thinner. Not quite there yet, but I'm working on it.