Playing around with Ionic 2 i came to the following issue. I had a component where i’d like to automatically set the focus of an element after the view is loaded completely. The approach is similar to the AngularJS/Ionic1 one. We create a directive. But instead of using jQuery or jQuery Lite to set the […]
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Our Angular 2 basic training adopt the successful structure of the AngularJS 1 course: Develop a fully functional demo application, step by step. Learn all the concepts by learning one and directly apply it. During developing the demo application, we neglect styling the app to fully concentrate on the core concepts of Angular 2: components, […]
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Recently i faced the challenge to create a cross platform application for desktop, mobile and browser. Since Angular 2 Material is not yet ready but a Angular 1 to Angular 2 migration would be a pain in the ass I decided to go with Ionic 2 as scaffold for all devices. And then, when Angular 2 […]
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Memory Leaks When it comes to unit testing in AngularJS there are many things that, developers like us can and will do wrong. The most crucial one is to create memory leaks in our unit tests, which mostly result either in a crash of the unit test runner (browser crash) or in creating a coherence/dependency between […]
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Angular 1.5 Multi Slot Transclusion Transclusion is one of the most useful features when it comes to writing reusable Angular directives. Even if you never heard of what it is, you might have used transclusion before without knowing it. The version 1.5 of AngularJS adds a long awaited feature: Multi Slot Transclusion, that allows us developer […]
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NativeScript came up as a framework to write native mobile Apps for Android and iOS, and they even want to come up with Windows 10 support in March 2016. My colleague described first steps in NativScript in his article back in December. Today I want to show you, how to setup your NativeScript + TypeScript + […]
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You need an app for Android, iOs and Windows Phone, but don’t want to write the code in three different languages? And the app should look as native as possible? Then Nativescript could be a solution. Why? Because it does not only look like a native app, it is native! Why NativeScript? NativeScript is a […]
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Google moves yet another step forward and indicates that single page application are getting more common. They just announced to drop the support of hashbang urls and crawl javascript sites without any pre-rendering (html snapshots) of the site – which is totally cool. But there are some limits regarding canonical tags as I discovered. In order […]
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The Angular team provides a tool set for creating end to end tests (e2e) called protractor http://www.protractortest.org based on WebDriver from Selenium. It’s extended by a deferred element finder and support for the ng-model notation, so it could be the ideal partner for testing AngularJS applications. But if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

One of the simplest ways to organize your projects, seminar papers and daily tasks is by using Trello. With the w11k calendar for Trello it is even easier to keep the overview of your tasks. Trello is a productivity tool that helps you organize your projects by creating individual boards, lists and cards. It is […]
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