You constantly hear about things happening to people because of things on facebook.  Mostly pictures and how certain people who probably shouldn’t be able to see them somehow managed to see them.

And it goes sort of like this.  I have a photo album called ‘Pets‘ and this album on Facebook.  This album has the privacy setting “Friends Only” and as you will see if you click the link to the album a few things will happen depending on who you are and whether or not you are logged in to Facebook… (more…)

I was reading a post over here about why the ActionStack in Zend Framework is evil.  And I agree. I’ve used ActionStack before in a few older ZF sites (where better alternatives weren’t ready or I just didn’t know about them) but now as the framework has progressed there are many better alternatives to get other ‘actions’ to be executed on every request.

That better alternative is to simply not stack actions. One practice that I’ve been bringing into habit over the last year or so with my coding is to keep my controllers thinned out. As Ryan states: Fat Models, Thin Controllers.  And as things have rolled out over the last few months, I’ve discovered that is a Good Thing™.

Skinny supermodels beware, your jobs are at risk…

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