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  Fat Models, Skinny Controllers

  04.27.07 | Permalink | 29 Comments

  I've become a convert to the design concept that says when you build something with an MVC pattern, you should have fat models and skinny controllers. What does this really mean? It means that you put as much of your business logic as you can into your models and all the controller should be doing [...]

• Chris' Brain, PHP

  What Happens When A Good Idea Doesn’t Actually Work?

  04.24.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Being a programmer with Attention Deficit Disorder when it comes to new ideas. I'm always interested in new ideas, technologies and programming languages. So, since I had been doing some work with web services I found the RADAR idea very interesting. I even posted some code snippets and thoughts about it. Then I went and [...]

• Chris' Brain, PHP, Real Life, php|tek

  What’s In Chris’ Brain, April 2007 Edition

  04.17.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Here are some of the things bouncing around in my head this month: Following my "just build it, damnit!" mantra, I finally got the new web site for my simulation baseball league launched. It's not 100% the way I want it layout-wise, but I can tweak that going forward. It at least has all the [...]

• Chris' Brain, PHP

  Doing RADAR in CakePHP

  04.11.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Okay, time for some code samples to boost traffic to my site. In a previous posting I talked about the idea of RADAR, or RESTful Application, Dumb-Ass Recipient. So, wanting to see if I could put it into use, I decided to do the following for a new application: Have the core of the application [...]

• Chris' Brain, Real Life

  Lazyweb: Need a t-shirt artist

  04.05.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I need a design for a t-shirt done up for me, based on the phrase "Be a developer, not a typist!". If you can help me out on a pro-bono basis, send some mail to chartjes@littlehart.net.

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