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Fat Models and Skinny Controllers

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November 29, 2011
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Fat Models and Skinny Controllers

My slides for the Springest Dev Lunch Session of November 29th, 2011

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November 29, 2011
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Transcript

  1. FAT MODELS skinny controllers Vincent Oord - [email protected] &

  2. QUICK MVC RECAP

  3. WHAT IS MVC Source: Wikipedia

  4. MODEL Manages data Contains business rules Keeps and changes state

  5. VIEW Builds interface to interact with model

  6. CONTROLLER Receive user requests Initiate responses Instructs model and view

    to perform certain actions

  7. WHY FAT CONTROLLERS SUCK

  8. HOW CONTROLLERS GET FAT

  9. None

  10. TRIMMING THE FAT

  11. None

  12. WHY FAT MODELS RULE

  13. BEWARE OF OBESITY