By default AngularJS projects use the hashbang syntax for urls to handle navigation without forcing the client to reload the whole application on every state change. Since the (HTML5) History API is available in all modern browsers the usage of the hashbang is not really required anymore. Furthermore urls look way cleaner without the hashbang. […]
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It is a common scenario in our projects to display tons of data in a nice, elegant and informative way. The tool to do so exists since many decades: charts. In This blog post I give an overview of angular.js directives that can easily be used to create all sorts of charts. There is a […]
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Problem Earlier this year, we started to port a customer website from a old css-style to a more modern bootstrap-style. To be more flexible, we switched from plain css to less (as a css-precompiler) and automated the build with grunt. The build was very basic and just compiled the less files into css files, we […]
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In my last post i demonstrated how to convert Strings from Hyphen Format to CamelCase in Java, using the popular Framework Guava from Google. In AngularJS this can be achieved using a Regular Expression and an AngularJS Filter. 1) Create a constant function which does the replacement Our first step is to create a Regular […]
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Due the missing feature of Trello to show cards beyond all boards in the same calendar we decided to help ourselves and started developing our own application that would fits in smoothly in our own workflow. Main goal was to achieve a simple calendar view and not to replace any features Trello already provides. In […]
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Problem When building applications with frameworks like AngularJS, we usually create so called “Rich Internet Applications” (RIA). The architecture of a RIA differs from a “traditional” application in several aspects: The server is (almost) stateless The client is stateful Server and client communicate over a coarse-grained interface The client contains (more) business logic With good […]
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Recently I had the requirement to add sorting to a legacy DataTables (1.7.5), the column contains data in [Monthname] YYYY and DD.MM.YYYY – DD.MM.YYYY format. For example: December 2014 15.10.14-30.10.14 January 2015 The normal DataTables sorting algorithm can only sort the column alphabetically, so we needed some improvement. After a short search on the DataTables […]
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Trello is a productivity tool that helps you to organize your projects by creating individual lists, boards and cards. Managing your projects in teams get more flexible and it improves the whole workflow. But one tool was missing yet: A Calendar for Trello showing you every cards by due date at a look. Thats why […]
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There are many ways how to sperate words in a String for us programmers. One of the most popular are seperation by “hyphens” and using the CamelCase Notation. The library Guava from Google provides excellent help for converting a string from one format to the other Hyphen Format

 Camel Case Format (Wikipedia)

Conversion in […]
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Im privaten Umfeld und im Geschäftsalltag verbreiten sich moderne Webtechnologien immer rasanter. Bei der Wartung alter Webanwendungen, sprich „Legacy Webapps“ gerät man deshalb unter den Druck, ähnliche Features sowie eine möglichst komfortable Benutzerführung bereitzustellen. Dies ist jedoch mit den vorhandenen Technologien gar nicht oder nur mit sehr hohem Aufwand möglich. Um die gewünschten Anforderungen umzusetzen, […]
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