View models also guard against silliness like mass assignment, and, of course, give you a nice place to check the current user is allowed to actually view the resource in question.
Discussions
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2 hours ago, cbae wrote
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I don't think it's that straightforward: http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/group.html
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Although, admittedly, that guy is American too.
Exactly.
Mind you this week I had a fun day's worth of "Is it A SSL Certificate or An SSL Certificate", and I was using .ac.uk sites to backup my argument it was An SSL Certificate. I won. Because I have commit rights to that project and the PM doesn't *evil*
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18 minutes ago, cbae wrote
@blowdart: How about?
That group of people over at Microsoft is just a swell bunch of guys!
Sounds more natural, right?
Not to me, I'd say are. But then I use the queen's English
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1 hour ago, DeathByVisualStudio wrote
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Ahhh but wouldn't it be cool if it did sync stuff shared with you? You could edit things shared with you even when off-line (and avoid the whole email attachment style sharing that Microsoft has advertised they want to help people do away with).
Oh I agree, I'll ping the PM about it. You never know.
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8 minutes ago, cbae wrote
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Yet, if you used "collection of people" in your sentence, you'd still use a singular verb:
"That collection of people at Microsoft is just a swell bunch of guys!"
That's very artificial, you'd say The people at Microsoft are...
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1 hour ago, Kev12853 wrote
can we set up his desktop skydrive app to sync with my web skydrive (and therefore my desktop skydrive) so that when I make changes to the file it gets updated via syncing (in the background) with his desktop skydrive and vice versa
No, but you can share things with others and they can edit them online.
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1 hour ago, cbae wrote
Speaking of plugins...
Oh that gets better. Yahoo left their private key in that plug-in, so people are having fun spoofing being yahoo.
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12 minutes ago, Maddus Mattus wrote
@blowdart: roads are infrastructure and as such are in the public domain and responsibility for the government.
So if the road is bad, blame government.

That's not a libertarian view, heh.
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9 minutes ago, cbae wrote
@Maddus Mattus: You ran off the road long ago.
That's because the private industry responsible for maintaining it forgot

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And once again I'm closing this thread, for the same reason as the last one. Wasn't it clear enough last time?