Angular
From Ski Instructor to Programmer – My Journey Back to Programming
On the surface, I have a stereotypical story for a programmer: I started programming at a young age, went to college for computer science and now I’m a senior JavaScript developer. But for around 8 years, I didn’t program at all and didn’t work in a technical field. This is the story of how I…
Read MorePreparing Your Angular 1 Code For Angular 2 (Part 2)
This post is Part 2 of a series of blog posts where I’ll convert an Angular 1.x project to Angular 2. In Part 1, I upgraded the Angular client to use the latest guidelines in the John Papa Angular Style Guide. Node.js has improved by leaps and bounds since I first wrote the Phone Cat…
Read MorePreparing Your Angular 1 Code For Angular 2 (Part 1)
This post is Part 1 of a series of blog posts where I’ll convert an Angular 1.x project to Angular 2. Check out Part 2 to see how we update the NodeJS server to use ES2015 code. Angular.js has changed a lot over the past few years. As the framework has matured, not only have…
Read MoreDynamically Labeled Markers on a Google Map
A project came up recently that involved building a Google Map with a set of markers on it in an Angular single page app. All of the markers needed to be labeled with their rank number. Markers could be red or blue and “inactive” markers would have a reduced opacity (depending on the data). A…
Read MoreGoogle Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Angular
Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Angular are a great set of tools for building a modern, powerful, single-page web app. Google Analytics allows you to track your users to see how they are interacting with your site. Google Tag Manager allows you to update your tracking metrics without a code release. Angular allows you…
Read MoreAngular U: Classes, Prototypes and OLOO
I just returned from the Angular U 2015 conference. It was a great experience and I learned a lot. I was even lucky enough to meet a number of the big names in Angular, people that I’d read about or heard on podcasts, including Brad Green, Dan Wahlin, Joe Eames, Ward Bell, Scott Moss, David…
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