My pet peeve list seems to grow on a regular basis.  One of them is poorly optimized code.  Not only is the code I’m going to discuss poorly optimized, it’s from the documentation of CakePHP!

If you search for creating custom pagination in CakePHP, you will find quite a few results, potentially this one.  The one that I would assume the best would be the one from CakePHP itself, but it’s not and let me show you why. Read more »