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The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is a set a guidelines for how to make websites access
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What self.skipWaiting() does to the service worker lifecycle
The ServiceWorker.skipWaiting() method is a life saver. It ensures that any new versions of a service
What is tree shaking and how does it work?
When Javascript applications get to a certain size, it’s helpful to separate the code into modules. H
Use the :lang pseudo-class over the lang attribute selector for language-specific styles
The content of HTML documents can be in many different languages.To specify the primary language of a
A Siri Shortcut to Generate PWA Icons and Web App Manifest
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I’ve recently been writing about what exactly the DOM and the shadow DOM are and how they differ. To
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Since writing about the state of CSS resets in 2018, I’ve had a few people ask what my modified CSS r
Making the abbr element work for touchscreen, keyboard, and mouse
The <abbr> element is used to denote and define an acronym. For example, if we want to write th
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A few years ago, I wrote about how we can use css to style broken images. The technique leveraged on
A one-line solution to highlighting search matches
I’ve recently been making some improvements to the search page of this blog, and wanted to implement
There’s no reason to use pointer-events for HTML elements
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Cache API 101
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HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points
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So long, farewell, Microsoft!
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Let’s Go Video: Observability in the Kitchen: Improve Your Breadmaking Skills w/OSS!!
For this week’s video, in honor of it being Never Graduate Week, I went hunting for a !!con vid
Let’s Go Video: Simplicity in Go
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On learning Go (and transitioning from JS)
I’ve been thinking about writing out why I went looking for a Go programmer position, some feel
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My first day at HashiCorp!
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Recurse Center Mini Day 5
Today I went in earlier and after a quiet breakfast, I got my Python environment detangled, finally.M
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If the minibatch feels like a whirlwind of all the feelings of my first go round of RC, day four is t
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Today’s song is called “field notes” and if you’ve listened to the other ones
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Filtering in Angular
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Compiling binaries for Netlify
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Bare Import Cost
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All your envs in a row 🦆🦆🦆
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How to put your kid in Scratch
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Recently I posted a quick poll to Twitter asking:Do you think syntax highlighting (in blog posts, exa
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Twitter without tracking
Recently I've been using the DuckDuckGo browser extension that gives me a web site privacy score but
Slashed URI
Trailing slashes in URIs, or URLs or UDI (surprisingly). What the heck do they actually mean, do they
#Web30
This week marks the 30th birthday of the web. I've had my own involvement in this momentous date in h
Excavating a user agent
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WWW: Where's the Writable Web?
This post is based on my experience and thoughts, and is not backed up by research, aka: speculative,
CERN day 5: the end
What a packed week, what an honour and privilege to be part of, and what a superb job we did.It's all
CERN day 4
Another long day from 9am to 10pm coding, conferring, braining, hacking and edging towards our goal:
CERN day 3
The day's work has really started to intensify, particularly as the pressure mounts (certainly in my
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Though my body clock says it 7:30pm it feels like it's midnight—it's been a long, busy, interesting a
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This marks the beginning of a week long adventure in Geneva Switzerland at CERN, to work on a hack pr
Should I add another dependency?
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A Toe in TypeScript
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Books I read in 2018
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I starting reading "properly" at the end of 2016 and carried on into 2017. At this stage, I
My 2018
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memfetch
The web API fetch is superbly simple (compared to its predecessor: XMLHttpRequest) but during develop
How many days until...
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Ways to extract slides
When you run events, once everything is over, it's nice to be able to share the slides both as a sing
ffconf v10: updates & my experience
It's been just over two weeks since the 10th ffconf ran. I'm only just closing up the final bits of t
Debugging vanishing text in shell scripts
Did you ever get a weird bash scripting issue where a variable would "randomly" eat charact
Curation all the way
Curation is massively important to ffconf, and as of last week, ffconf now has a complete line up of
Peer Deps
Just using my blog to share a little tip for future me that current me keeps forgetting. Over the yea
Midlife
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8 years on
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CLI: improved
I'm not sure many web developers can get away without visiting the command line. As for me, I've been
My NHS Story
Today I realised that it was the end of the month and my two blog post a month, self imposed quota wa
When helpful turns into super bad security!
A shortish post partly to point out a bad…no, terrible practise, and in part to remind myself to neve
An adventure in sparse arrays
I offered to coach JavaScript recently, and an exercise I dreamt up was to implement every array (pro
Manual Aspire
As part of my research for the talk I gave at jsconf.eu 2018, I bought a ZX Spectrum 48K. I purchased
The story of 42 million bins
This past month of April I had a bit of an adventure in server fires (though thankfully not literal)
My extinguished kindle
Last night I reached for my Kindle to continue reading 1984. I had just started part 3 of the book an
✂📋 How I copy & paste in the terminal
I use the terminal a lot and aliases are a great way to both personalise my command line experience,
Quick tip for node modules
When writing my node modules, I've come to really quite enjoy using Jest for testing (I've written ab
Why I have a limited company
I've been asked a number of times over the years why I chose to run my business under a limited compa
Last minute node debugging
I'm working on a node project that I need to debug, but I didn't start it with the --inspect flag. Mo
Headless Raspberry Pi setup
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How to cross post to Medium
At some point during 2017, Medium decided to pull their IFTTT applets that allows content to be poste
Open source with a cap in hand
Nodemon was first released in Oct 2010 (via twitter no less). To date, nodemon has had 1,024 commits
A clean exit
I was running some tests recently using Mocha and I wanted to re-run the tests when files changed. Ty
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I've recently been using gists to help debug user issues on nodemon. The process is two parts: firstl
My 2017
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Is jQuery still relevant?
I've been cruising the reddit listings recently and without much searching Ifound a staggering amount
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Abdelrahman Omran
Jonathan Belcher
Google Cloud Functions and Serverless Path Parameters
I’m trying to transition an express node service to using the serverless framework and Google C
Worlds Fastest Store, well sort of
I have been working on building a PWA front end for WooCommerce. I saw the Polymer Shop repository a
Things you should do in Barcelona
Beer:Garage Beer Company – Brew pubBierCab – Bar and beer store. Amazing selection in bo
Coding Style Guides
If you know me you probably know that I sincerely believe that for a project to be successful you nee
Making Coffee and Web Apps
I drink a lot of coffee. I write a lot of JavaScript. This is about my journey from drip to my perfe
Martin Splitt
My Google I/O 2019 wrap-up
One part of this was to give two presentations:Google Search: state of the union together with John -
SEO codelabs for developers
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Google I/O - let's meet!
On Tuesday I will most likely hang around the community lounge and the web sandbox :)
2018: a retrospective
I contemplated we'd see more progress for WebXR, which is the case. The TPAC meeting had a whole
A new adventure
I started in April and had a great time during "Noogler onboarding" where I was introduced
Writing an x86 "Hello world" bootloader with assembly
After booting, the BIOS of the computer reads 512 bytes from the boot devices and, if it detects a tw
Firefox day 5: A race
I've opened a session with four tabs:FacebookTwitterA Stackoverflow threadA Github pageAn Archilo
Firefox day 4: Goin' up the country
I've found a few niceties besides the fact that apps open links with Firefox in the background an
Firefox day 3: Details
When switching browsers three days ago, I forgot to install an ad blocker.I have to say I'm surpr
Firefox day 2: First few cracks
Today I happened to visit my own website, geekonaut.de and noticed a few interesting glitches on my p
My Firefox month: Day 1
I will try Firefox 54 on my laptops and phone for a monthFirefox Sync provides me with seamless acces
How I approach side projects
Start with something you don't know. Research & write down the resultResearch just enough to
CORS - a guided tour
The browser enforces the Same-origin policy to avoid getting responses from websites that do not shar
Bits and bytes in JavaScript
when dealing with binary data or communicating with hardware, you may find yourself needing ways to m
Understanding different number systems
The fact that we use a number system with 10 symbols (0-9),aka "Base 10" or decimal is an a
2016: The year in review
This year I finally finished the draft of my book on Polymer!If things work out, it will be in print
HTML, DOM and JavaScript unraveled
The web platform has started out with HTML to allow users to share documentsand link them in a user f
The overwhelming web
Web Development can be pretty strange these days.On the one hand we tell beginners that they need ALL
Slick and slf4j MDC logging in Scala
Multi-user applications need log messages to retain context, so the situation can be examined on a tr
Five rules to stay sane and efficient when handling downtimes
Downtimes, Crashes, Incidents, System Failures - they have many names, but most people involved with
Five rules to stay levelheaded and efficient when handling downtimes
Downtimes, Crashes, Incidents, System Failures - they have many names, but most people involved with
JSON RPC 2.0 - for simple and powerful APIs
To my surprise a contender in the field of API protocols is yet unknown: JSON-RPC 2.0.A standard sinc
Maxim Salnikov
Loiane Groner
What is new in Java 12 (for Developers)
Java JDK 12 was released on March 19 as part of the new release cicle (a new Java version every 6 mon
Setting up MySQL on Oracle Cloud + Connecting with MySQL Workbench
In this article we will learn step by step how to setup a MySQL instance on Oracle Cloud. MySQL is th
CRUD REST API Using Spring Boot 2, Hibernate, JPA, and MySQL
In this article we will learn how to develop a CRUD RESTFul API with Spring Boot 2 + JPA/Hibernate an
Deploying a Spring Boot REST Application to Oracle Cloud
In this article we will learn how to develop a simple Java Spring Boot 2 REST application and deploy
Upgrading to Angular v6: Step by Step
Angular v6 was released on May 3rd and now we can focus on upgrading our projects to the new version.
Continuous Integration with Angular CLI + Travis CI + Firebase Hosting + Greenkeeper + Github
In this article we will learn how to automatically deploy an Angular CLI project to Firebase hosting
Angular Tips: Formatting Dates with a Custom Date Pipe (dd/MM/yyyy)
In this article we will learn how to create a custom Date Pipe with Angular. Using Angular default
How to Add Bootstrap to an Angular CLI project
In this article we will learn how to setup an Angular project with Bootstrap 3 or Bootstrap 4. Update
Angular Reactive Forms: trigger validation on submit
In this article we will learn different approaches of validating all form fields when user clicks on
Angular Tips: Avoiding duplication of RxJS operator imports
Updated post Update May 2018: since Angular v5, we can use RxJS Pipeable Operators, which makes easie
Getting Started with Angular Material 2
This article will show you how to setup your Angular project (v2+) using Angular Material 2. Update D
O que uso pra gravar os screencasts - 2016
Olá pessoal, De vez em quando as pessoas perguntam o que uso pra gravar as aulas que disponibilizo no
Todos os ebooks da Packt por US$ 5 - inclusive os meus!
Olá pessoal, Vim compartilhar uma super dica com vocês. Tem uns 3 anos que a Packt (editora com a qua
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Olá pessoal, A Packt entrou em contato e está oferecendo 50% de desconto nos meus livros no formato e
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Oi pessoal, Hoje vamos conferir a correção dos exercícios de laboratório da aula 27 do Curso de Java
[Curso Java Básico - Orientação a Objetos] Aula 27: Classes e métodos com parâmetros
Olá pessoal, Vídeo/Screencast de hoje: aula 27 do curso gratuito de Java! Na aula de hoje vamos apren
Packt Free Learning: 1 ebook gratuito todos os dias (pra sempre)!
Oi pessoal, A Packt (editora pela qual publico meus livros) de vez em quando lança campanhas de 1 eb
[Curso Java Básico - Orientação a Objetos] Aula 26: Classes e métodos com retorno
Olá pessoal, Vídeo/Screencast de hoje: aula 26 do curso gratuito de Java! Na aula de hoje vamos apren
[Curso Java Básico - Orientação a Objetos] Aula 25: Classes e métodos simples
Olá pessoal, Vídeo/Screencast de hoje: aula 25 curso gratuito de Java! Na aula de hoje vamos aprender
[Curso Phonegap / Cordova] Aula 07: Phonegap + Android no Windows: Configurando Ambiente
Olá pessoal, Vídeo/Screencast de hoje: aula 07do curso gratuito de Phonegap e Cordova. Na aula de hoj
[Curso Java Básico - Orientação a Objetos] Correção Exercícios Aula 24: Classes e atributos
Oi pessoal,Hoje vamos conferir a correção dos exercícios de laboratório da aula 24 do Curso de Java g
[Curso Java Básico - Orientação a Objetos] Aula 24: Classes e atributos
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[Mobile Conf 2015] Palestra e Curso Phonegap com Ionic no Rio de Janeiro dias 28, 29 e 30 de Maio
Olá pessoal, Dias 28 e 29 de maio estarei no Rio de Janeiro para ministrar 2 workshops de Phonegap/Co
[Curso Java Básico] Aula 23: Como debugar no Netbeans
Olá pessoal, Vídeo/Screencast de hoje: aula 23 do curso gratuito de Java! Na aula de hoje vamos apren
[Curso Java Básico] Aula 22: Como debugar no Eclipse
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[Curso Java Básico] Aula 21: For Each (for melhorado)
Olá pessoal, Vídeo/Screencast de hoje: aula 21 do curso gratuito de Java! Na aula de hoje vamos apren
[Curso Java Básico] Correção Exercícios Aula 20 (Matrizes/Arrays Multidimensionais)
Oi pessoal, Hoje vamos conferir a correção dos exercícios de laboratório da aula 20 do Curso de Java
Congresso TI 2015: Palestra Online e Gratuita sobre Phonegap para iniciantes
Olá pessoal, Vim aqui falar para vocês que essa semana começa o a segunda edição do Congresso TI. O e
Phil Nash
How to start a Node.js project
Sometimes I write blog posts to remind myself what I’ve learned and sometimes I write them because so
2018 in review
I’ve never been one for writing a review of my year. This year I’ve found myself not only reading, bu
Service workers: beware Safari's range request
You’ve implemented a service worker to cache some assets. Everything is working well, your service wo
Techniques for animating on the canvas in React
I recently experimented with audio visualisation in React on the Twilio blog. While I meant to teach
Implementing one time passwords in Crystal
Crystal is still a young language, there aren’t a lot of libraries available yet. For some this could
Git commands to keep a fork up to date
I’ve seen the following tweet about git making its way around Twitter recently:I ❤️ Git. But honestly
Spring clean your dev machine
Development machines can build up such a lot of cruft. Old versions, oudated programs and unused cach
CSS: select first-of-class with the subsequent sibling combinator
There are a whole bunch of CSS selectors available to web developers, but sometimes there’s still not
gzip a file in Ruby
At the start of the year I looked into how to better compress the output of a Jekyll site. I’ll write
Gokulakrishnan Kalaikovan
Fix Mojave Rendering Issue
https://carbon.now.shToday after updating macOS from High Sierra to Mojave in
Add danger.js to your OSS in 5 mins
What is danger.js anyway?DangerJS runs during your CI process, and helps your team to automate certai
Prettier - Opinionated Code Formatter
What is prettier?Prettier is an opinionated code formatter. That’s all.✅ Language support JavaScript
Introduction to GraphQL
😼 So what is GraphQL exactly?A query language for your API.GraphQL gives the power to ask for exactly
Tool I use for web development
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Comparison of HTTP and HTTP/2
This comparison blog post is to show why you should move from HTTP to HTTPS and why you should add su
Best Practices for Push Notifications
As the web is moving forward very fast and now we can do almost everything on the web which can be do
What is accessibility?
Accessibility means letting the user navigate and interact with a website by any means. Let it be a k
How To Setup Webpack 2
Webpack is module bundler for modern web applications.It is a highly configurable and easy to use.Red
CSS4 Selectors
A CSS selector is like patterns which are used to select and style the pattern matching elements. We
Web Performance Optimization
An average user stays in your site if the page loads in < 1000ms. In 2014, an average page size
Chrome DevTools
Google chrome is one of the fastest browser around and using chrome devTools for development is simpl
Jurgen Van de Moere
A 10-minute primer to Service Workers
In this article, we have a look at what service workers are, why they are used in modern web developm
How to update an existing project in your Nx workspace to use Jest as a test runner instead of Karma
Nx v6.3 introduced the ability to use Jest as a unit test runner. When you generate a new library or
How to use environment variables to configure your Angular application without a rebuild
In February 2016, I published an article on how to configure your AngularJS 1.x application using env
The 7-step process of Angular router navigation
There are many great articles and books available on how to use and configure Angular router. In cont
A 10 minute primer to JavaScript modules, module formats, module loaders and module bundlers
Modern JavaScript development can be overwhelming.When working on a project, you may wonder why all t
Review of Angular 2 Master Class by Thoughtram
On July 6 and July 7, 2016 I attended the Angular 2 Master Class by Thoughtram in the Showpad offices
Review of Angular 2 Workshop by Brecht Billiet
On June 29 and June 30, 2016 I attended Brecht Billiet's Angular 2 Workshop at Holiday Inn Ghent Expo
Simple metaphor to easily understand and remember how token-based authentication works
In this modern era, software is often using token-based authentication so that parts of the software
How I feel about Angular 2
A few weeks ago I was privileged to spend time with Pascal Precht while he was preparing his talk for
How to configure your AngularJS application using environment variables
Most AngularJS applications contain logic.And thus most AngularJS applications typically have a confi
How to properly integrate non-AngularJS libraries in your AngularJS application
There may be times when you need to use a non-AngularJS library such as lodash or underscore in your
How I optimized Minesweeper using Angular 2 and Immutable.js to make it insanely fast
In my previous article I showed you how to build Minesweeper using Angular 2 and Immutable.js. You ca
How to build Minesweeper using Angular 2 and Immutable.js
This is the first in a series of articles on Angular 2. If you want me to send you a quick note when
Thoughtram Angular Master Class review
On August 25th and 26th I attended the 2-day Angular Master Class by thoughtram at Silversquare Bruss
How to use areas and border states to control access inside an Angular application with ui-router
UI-router is awesome!You can create nested states and do all kinds of fancy stuff.But what if you nee
Filip Bech-Larsen
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Angular 8 and the Future - NGConf 2019 Roundup
I’m not at NGConf 2019 (unfortunately). But I’m following along very closely with the
Lazy load Angular Components
Lazy loading is hot recently and for a good reason. It’s all about speed! The Chrome team at Go
Introduction to Angular Elements
You didn’t yet get into Angular Elements? Then it’s time to give it a go! In this art
Setup your Workstation for JavaScript Development
You want to learn about modern web development with JavaScript? Maybe Angular? Well, then it&rsqu
Productive Git for Developers
With this Egghead course, I aim at a different goal. You will walk through a series of scenarios
RxJS finalize operator to execute logic on Observable termination
In this article we’re going to have a look at the RxJS finalize operator. To have a practic
A step-by-step guide to integrating a third party widget with Angular
When working on a complex project you will inevitably face the situation when you have to use a 3rd p
Display Server Side Validation Errors with Angular
Input Validation is a big topic when it comes to forms. And even more in those large, enterprisey
Explore Angular Router's runGuardsAndResolvers
Learn how we can use new options introduced for the runGuardsAndResolvers setting for the Angular
Guarantee Event Order with RxJS
When you create dynamic UIs, you have to deal with async stuff a lot. Most often they are triggered
It's not just Standing Up
I’m highly convinced that the hardest part of software development is people. Here are some
Learn Angular Router for Real-World Applications
Finally, it's out!!! My Angular router course is now available on Egghead, go grab it :)
Better Redirects in Angular Route Guards
Angular version 7.1 not only comes with bugfixes but includes also a bunch of new features. In this p
Egghead Lesson: Simple caching with RxJS
This is the accompanying article for my latest Egghead video lesson on caching data in Angular by lev
Egghead Lesson: Avoid memory leaks when subscribing to RxJS Observables in Angular Components
RxJS is a first class citizen in every Angular application. It's extremely powerful, but there are al
Simple State Management with RxJS’s scan operator
State management is a big topic currently in frontend development. For a reason: frontend frameworks/
My Journey replacing Promises with RxJS
In this post I’m going to tell you, step-by-step, how I used RxJS to refactor a method that was based
[object ErrorEvent] thrown by Karma in Angular Unit Tests
I’m pretty sure when you’ve already come across this exception: `[object ErrorEvent] thrown` when you
In-depth: How do CDK Portals work?
In the last article we were exploring how to leverage the Angular Material CDK portals for placing so
Dynamic UI with CDK TemplatePortal and DomPortalHost
Ever wanted to place some piece of UI dynamically from one component to another? But the component th
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So our use case is to create a directive, which shows/hides elements on the page based on our current
Add Mocha reporter for Karma unit tests to your Angular CLI project
Every Angular CLI generated project comes already with a test setup in place using Karma. I think the
Create a CD pipeline with Angular, GitLab and Firebase
I’m a huge fan of automating all the stuff. Even if you’re a very precise and organized person, you’r
Create a ng-true-value & ng-false-value directive for Angular
If you come from AngularJS (v1.x) I'm pretty sure you remember the `ng-true-value` and `ng-false-valu
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Proper logging is of major importance and a must have in any serious application. Writing logs is tri
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I don’t use dynamic types regularly, but there are always again situations when they come in qu
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Deploying: Git vs. TFS Showdown
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Lessons Learned: Don't Expose EF Entities to the Client Directly
When we refactored our main application architecture, moving from an ASP.net WebForms app to a rich c
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Fluent Conference: JavaScript & Beyond Complete Video Compilation by O'Reilly Media
Missed this years Fluent Conference in San Francisco? Then this amazing video compilation is probably
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If you are a JavaScript newbie eager to dive into creating rich mobile web applications, this book is
Entity Framework Schema Translations
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Testing and the Single Responsibility Principle
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Asynchronous processing is one of the most difficult things for devs to understand when switching fro
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Don't Fall into the IEnumerable<T> Trap
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Help, Ubuntu 11.10 won't boot!!
Today I tried to start the new Ubuntu 11.10 from the live CD on the old desktop computer of my girlfr
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Design Tech Talk Series Presents: OO Design for Testability
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HowTo: Teach Visual Studio to Remember Your TFS Password
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Today I started writing the instrumentation tests for the Android platform side of the project. For y
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HowTo: Include JavaScript file from JavaScript code
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Are C# regions a good thing??
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When programming, there is often the the situation where you have to continuously do the null-check i
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Using code metrics as indicator for code refactoring
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Do you know the "Joel Test"?
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About Scrum - in under 10 minutes
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HowTo: Getting started with JUnit testing for Liferay portlets with Netbeans (for Eclipse users)
Besides at work, where I'm developing in .Net using Visual Studio, I'm a heavy Eclipse user. I use it
Page Speed: Firebug add-on for analyzing web page speed
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HowTo: Keep request parameters on validation errors with Spring's SimpleFormController
I recently had a problem when using Spring's SimpleFormController together with validation. So I post
HowTo: Get localized string different from the current culture
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Use Google Scholar and Latex for correctly citing papers
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JsTestDriver - Easy unit testing for JavaScript code
Today this video got my attention which is basically a short demo of JsTestDriver, a nice implementat
Help, my MSTest DeploymentItem doesn't get deployed!
MSTests allow you to define items you'd like to deploy to the deployment directory when executing the
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Intel ProSet Wireless tool causing a lot of trouble
Years ago I installed the Intel ProSet Wireless tool for managing my wireless network connections on
Debugging and Testing the Web with Firebug
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HowTo: Make your custom ASP.net server control validatable
Content validation is a major issue of every application. It is an absolute "must have" to notify the
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Use Firebug everywhere!
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Best practices: The challenge of designing software for wireless devices
Designing good software for wireless devices such as mobile phones is not straightforward. Developers
HowTo: Bind an input field to a Date property using Spring's SimpleFormController
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Internet Explorer 8: Compatibility
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These damn spammers!!!
Once again one of my blog posts got infected by "spam" comments. But this time not the usual pharmace
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Best practices: Deploying webapps (contd.)
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Guidelines for promoting your blog
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I just noticed that I did not post one topic about mobile development with J2ME, and that although my
HowTo: Detect Assembly dependencies at runtime
I'm currently developing a small project for myself, where I'm trying to build a small plugin framewo
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Today at work I observed a quite "nice" behaviour of the ASP.net DropDown list control. We usually ha
Google AJAX APIs: The Google Visualization API
From now and then I'm always taking a quick look at Google's API page to see whether something new an
Installing and configuring ATI graphics card drivers on Ubuntu Hardy
For the "Data Mining and Data Warehousing" course at the university, we had to implement a spectral c
HowTo: Persist viewstate on the server-side
In our last web project we had some performance issues, mainly caused by the extremely big page views
HowTo: testing jFace Action class taking a StructuredSelection object
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Accessing webcontrols inside the ProgressTemplate of an UpdateProgress
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Best practices: Tracking information on the source code with Visual Studio and TFS
An issue in managing a code base is not only to guide different developers through the development pr
By far the best "404 Not Found" notification I've ever seen!!
I just wanted to download a zip-file from a url provided by one of my university professors, but sadl
Blogging year 2008
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First steps with Silverlight. What about GWT?
Last week I had some time which allowed me to do some experiments with Microsoft Silverlight. I had t
Using extenders to abstract details and improve code readability
Extenders are a really cool feature of C#, which can be quite handy sometimes. I found the following
C++ linking libraries to build configuration in Eclipse
When programming in C++ you may often have to link at compile time to 3rd-party libraries which you'r
C++ experiences
Most of the courses I attended during my Bachelor were Java oriented with some C#, C and Haskell prog
JFace Table API with Eclipse RCP
Today I had to create a new view inside on an Eclipse RCP application representing data inside a tabl
Haskell type conversions: converting a String to Int
Today I just finished my battle-ship game written completely in functional programming (using Haskell
Persisting the current perspective state of an RCP
If you're developing on Eclipse RCP applications it may be interesting to save the perspective layout
Creating "soft-links" to folders on Linux
If you're working on Linux, especially on the command line, you'll often have to navigate through a l
HowTo: execute a file download from Windows command line
Under Linux it is often very comfortable to download files quickly from within the shell by typing wg
The type X is not accessible due to restriction on the...
For some university course we currently have to modify an Open Source application with LOC > 50,00
Strange focus behavior on Firefox 3+
Apparently it seems as if Firefox has changed the way the focus is set on the page starting with vers
Verifying command line parameters on C++ main method
Just a very quick example on how to verify the correct number of command-line parameters on a C++ (or
Problem: launching javascript from hyperlinks without redirecting
When I'm launching javascripts on a webpage I often use hyperlinks instead of buttons (it depends how
Javaforge causing a lot of problems
I'm currently developing an open source application for a University course. So as usually I establis
C/C++ programming on Linux
For a course at the university we have to develop a system using C++ on Linux. Being from the Java an
Haskell functional programming
Did you ever hear something about functional programming? I'm sure you did, and if you didn't you sho
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HowTo: Create 'linked tables' in MS Access
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Best practices: Deploying webapps
I don’t really know whether you want to consider this a “best practices” or not, bu
Revised: Changed values of readonly and disabled fields....
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Google Chrome: browsing the Google way
I just came back from holidays at Rhodos (very nice) and flew over my mails and see there, one notice
JavaScript onChange event handling
When you're developing web applications you'll often encounter a situation where you react on changes
Strange GWT compiler error when trying to serialize Java objects
I'm currently working on a project on my own where I'm developing a rich client by using the Google W
The Controls collection cannot be modified because...
Programming on the web (JSP, ASP.net, etc..) is quite different than programming a desktop client. On
Dynamically modifying CSS class name attributes
CSS allows you to not only define the style attributes directly like<span id="mySpan" style="font-
Extending JavaScript objects with custom functions
It is nice how JavaScript objects can be extended with additional custom functions. Today for instanc
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It is always nice to see people adapt and use your work. Today I made a quick look to my blog access
Recursive version of the FindControl(..) method
I don't know why there is none already implemented in the .NET framework. Anyway it wasn't too diffic
Specifying the size of a FileUpload control on Firefox
Apparently there seems to be a problem on Firefox when you want to specify a size for a file-upload b
Testing Ajax applications
Testing the correct functioning of an application is a major issue in software development. Errors ha
IE problems with AjaxControl Toolkit's AutoComplete extender
Microsoft's .Net AjaxControlToolkit provides a nice extender for doing Ajax-enabled auto-completion b
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The ViewState hell: controls loosing their values
Recently at work I encountered severe problems with the ASP.net viewstate. We have build a very nice
Finally, my Katana arrived!!
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Attaching client-side event handler to radio button list
If you want to react to changes on a ASP.net radio button list from the client side you have to attac
No unit tests?? Forget it!
I know a lot of people that look somehow skeptic to unit tests and unit testing in general. They see
Best practices: VCS usage flowchart
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Best practices: version control system usage
I come to the office in the morning, start Visual Studio and fetch the latest versions of the source
Extended User Management under XP
This will become just a very short post since I'm too tired to write a lot today. I just set up my li
Retrieving list of installed applications
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C# refresher
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Noo! Google Browser Sync deleted my Firefox bookmarks
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Logical separation with MVC
I'm currently working on a personal project (which I'll publish here, so keep an eye on my blog ;) )
Beside hacking each day...
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Java Generics: C++ class templates vs. Java class generics
Generics are a great thing. C++ already had already a similar mechanism called templates. This for in
My new domain: js-development.com
Right! That's my new domain. Finally I've bought one. I planned to do that already for a longer time,
Congratulations Dott.ssa Stefanie Franchi
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Creating simple backups with WinRAR
When I'm working on some code for a program I'm developing, I got into the habit of creating regular
Roundup of blogging-year 2007
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Unknown protocol: d
Today morning when starting a general build of the project I'm currently working on, I got an error s
Speakers don't mute when plugging in headphones!
As you may have recognized from the last post I start using Linux more often. With the new upgrade to
Where has Beryl gone??
Yesterday I upgraded Ubuntu to the new 7.10 (Gutsy) version. I don't know whether you've read a post
Learning by understanding and reusing code, not by copying!!
Time ago - as you may have already read on this blog here - I started to experiment with the GME API.
News Mapper experiences a revival
After I first published my Google Mashup project "News Mapper", it immediately got published first on
Red-Green color deficiency: whats that??
Well, it is a special kind of color blindness and I'm actually one of those guys affected by it. Rece
Clean up your folder
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TDD, JUnit 3.8 and JUnit 4
I don't know whether you already got in touch with Unit testing or TDD (Test-driven development). At
Mapplets on own website: illegal???
Today morning Alex - a friend of mine - wrote me a mail, pointing me to a pcwelt.de article with the
News Mapper has success!
My recent News Mapper mashup seems to have some success (at least for me :) ). Today I registered 114
News Mapper: A mashup experience with the Google Mashup Editor
Now in the two weeks after my successful graduation and before starting to work I found some space fo
Blog Action Day: Water pollution and waste
Yes, the title is right ;). I know that I usually post computer science related stuff on my blog here
Blog(ger's) Action Day
I'd like to to do a little promotion of the Blog Action Day since I find the idea quite useful and in
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On Sunday 02 this blog was listed on the 6th position in the BlogBites section of BlogPulse. Accordin
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Some of my blog-readers may have noticed the change in my layout. At the moment I'm just testing it (
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Qi Gong
Last week tuesday was my birthday and I received a nice set of "Qi Gong" balls (see picture) from my
What now: Program Files or Programme??
A friend of mine has recently acquired a new Dell notebook with a German copy of Windows Vista. On th
Syntax highlighting on Blogger
I recently found a JavaScript and CSS based syntax highlighting framework called dp.SyntaxHighlighter
Beryl window manager
Some time ago, I wrote a post regarding Ubuntu where I also mentioned about the nice visual effects p
Logging is useful
When I develop some application, I usually add a logging functionality to it. I find logging useful,
Vista and stability??
I don't have yet installed the new - so much promoted - operating system of Microsoft: Windows Vista,
When Windows tray-icons disappear misteriously
Recently when starting my computer, I noticed that some icons were missing in the notification area (
The first step in a long way....
I've always been a sporty person :). Already in elementary school I started to play soccer in a team,
Diving into a new area
I never really got into the Linux world. Last year I installed Suse Linux, but I used it rarely, main
Smiley-support for blog-entries
I like it to add smileys to my posts, since I find they make it much more personally. On my old homep
Moving to a new home...
The step is done... :) After Blogger left its beta phase, I entertained the idea of moving my current
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Many sites are not prepared for print, and yet our users print, and they save through print. Therefor
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Following a few philosophy posts to be archived, here are past entries related to web development. No
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Google+ is shutting down, pulling everything with it. I’ve used Google+. And although I’ve changed an
HTML and Performance: Leave Out Optional Tags and Quotes
As experts we should know what code is optional and leave it out, and our production systems should d
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A review of Lighthouse’s PWA audits and the PWA category as a whole. Just in time to see it be supers
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It’s smart to have a vision for what one wishes to achieve for the performance of a site or app. Yet
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Arguments for a “no” to a recurring question: Why we may want to give designers all freedom in the wo
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Web Performance has over the age of the Web not only turned into a discipline by itself, but also a c
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Google’s Lighthouse is a great tool even though it has some issues. Fortunately, it’s possible to con
The One Thing We May Really Want to Research
My back-burner philosophical work revolves around one idea: that what creates and makes for our reali
Highlights from The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels)
“This organisation of the proletarians into a class, and consequently into a political party, is cont
A Short Guide to Minimal Web Development
There’s an art and even a bit of magic around simple frontend code. Writing such code comes with a fe
Web Development and the GDPR
Who shares or presents code has a special responsibility, because for both the uninitiated and the qu
37 Theses on CSS and Web Development
CSS Optimization Basics ends with a list of key ideas. From acknowledging that we don’t always write
AMP, a Strategy
There are problems with AMP. My recommendations: Avoid AMP; or use it, exclusively, on the most relev
The Craft of CSS
When we type down CSS like we’ve done 20 years ago, and when we work with ever more abstractions, wha
The Dangers of Being a Web Developer
Video, slides, and resources for my talk at beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf.
CSS Optimization Basics
My latest little book, covering mindsets needed for writing effective style sheets, optimization opti
User-Centered Web Development
When we think of user focus we easily think of usability tests, following a usually strong wish to pr
Ciro Nunes
Warat Wongmaneekit
Minko Gechev
Dynamic imports solve all the problems, right?
Since Angular version 8, we support dynamic imports in loadChildren in the route declaration. In this
5 Angular CLI Features You Didn't Know About
I’ve been using Angular for years, not only the framework itself but the entire development pla
Angular quicklink Preloading Strategy
A few months ago I posted an article about Guess.js. Guess.js is a powerful library for predictive pr
Introducing Bazel Schematics for Angular CLI
In this blog post, we want to share our new schematics for Angular CLI which provide Bazel build supp
Building TypeScript Projects with Bazel
In this blog post, we’ll make a brief introduction to what Bazel is and how we can build our Ty
Joining Google
The past five years I’ve been heavily involved in the startup space, both, here in the Silicon
Playing Mortal Kombat with TensorFlow.js. Transfer learning and data augmentation
While experimenting with enhancements of the prediction model of Guess.js, I started looking at deep
Fast, extensible, configurable, and beautiful linter for Go
About a year ago I decided to polish my Go skills. Although the language is pretty small compared to
Introducing Guess.js - a toolkit for enabling data-driven user-experiences on the Web
About two months ago I published my initial research[1] on data-driven bundling. A few weeks after th
Machine Learning-Driven Bundling. The Future of JavaScript Tooling.
In this article, I’ll introduce the early implementation of a few tools which based on techniqu
JavaScript Decorators for Declarative and Readable Code
Decorators in JavaScript are now in stage 2. They allow us to alter the definition of a class, method
3 Tricks For Using Redux and Immutable.js with TypeScript
In this post, I’ll show you a few tricks which can make your life using Immutable.js and Redux
Follow Your Dream Career with Open Source. Personal Story.
This time I’ll violate my principle to write only about purely technical topics on my blog. In
Redux Anti-Patterns - Part 1. State Management.
For the past year I’ve been working on a project which uses React with TypeScript and Redux. In
Faster Angular Applications - Understanding Differs. Developing a Custom IterableDiffer
In this article we’ll take a look at another Angular abstraction - the differs and more specifi
Faster Angular Applications - Part 2. Pure Pipes, Pure Functions and Memoization
In this post, we’ll focus on techniques from functional programming we can apply to improve the
Faster Angular Applications - Part 1. On Push Change Detection and Immutability
On AngularConnect 2017 in London, I gave a talk called “Purely Fast.” In the presentation
Understanding Dynamic Scoping and TemplateRef
This post will be dedicated to template references in Angular and dynamic scoping. Although the main
Implementing a Simple Compiler on 25 Lines of JavaScript
I already wrote a couple of essays related to the development of programming languages that I was ext
Developing Statically Typed Programming Language
In this blog post we’ll go through a sample implementation of a type checker, interpreter and a
WebVR for a Gamified IDE
In the first part of this blog post I discuss the idea of using virtual reality for gamification of m
7 Angular Tools That You Should Consider
In this article we’re going to quickly explore 7 Angular development tools which can make our e
Announcing ngrev - Reverse Engineering Tool for Angular
Have you ever been hired to work on a huge legacy Angular project with thousands of NgModules, compon
Implementing Angular's Dependency Injection in React. Understanding Element Injectors.
Recently I’ve been blogging mostly about Angular and it’s not by accident! Angular is an
Distributing an Angular Library - The Brief Guide
In this post I’ll quickly explain the minimum you need to know in order to publish an Angular c
Angular in Production
In this informal essay I’ll go through a case study of my experience in using Angular (2 and ab
Ahead-of-Time Compilation in Angular
Recently I added Ahead-of-Time (AoT) compilation support to angular-seed and got a lot of questions a
2.5X Smaller Angular 2 Applications with Google Closure Compiler
In the post “Building an Angular 2 Application for Production” we explored how we can dec
Using Stripe with Angular
Stripe offer a set of APIs which allow businesses and individuals to easily accept and manage payment
Building an Angular Application for Production
Progressive Web Applications help us build native-like web apps, thanks to amazing tools such as Serv
Implementing the Missing "resolve" Feature of the Angular 2 Router
For the last a couple of months I’m working on an Angular 2 based PWA. The more complex the app
Scalable Single-Page Application Architecture
In order to have better understanding of the following blog post you should be familiar with the fund
Managing ambient type definitions and dealing with the "Duplicate identifier" TypeScript error
Maintaining the angular-seed, I found out that the most common problem for developers using the proje
Static Code Analysis of Angular 2 and TypeScript Projects
So far, most of the blog posts I’ve written are tutorials; they explain how we can use given te
Enforcing Best Practices with Static Code Analysis of Angular 2 Projects
About two weeks ago I published the initial draft of a Community-driven Angular 2 Style Guide. It was
ViewChildren and ContentChildren in Angular
In this article I’m going to explain the difference between the concepts of view children and c
Dynamically Configuring the Angular's Router
Warning: This version of the Angular 2 router is now deprecated! This means that soon the used below
Angular 2 Hot Loader
A couple of months ago I watched a few talks from ReactEurope. I was truly impressed by a few of them
Lazy Loading of Route Components in Angular 2
Warning: This version of the Angular 2 router is now deprecated! This means that soon the used below
Aspect-Oriented Programming in JavaScript
Note: The following blog post is based on the library aspect.js, which can be found here.The object-o
Flux in Depth. Store and Network Communication.
This is the second, and probably be the last, blog post of the series “Flux in Depth”. In
Using JSX with TypeScript
JavaScript is a weird language although, we love it the way it is. However, I’ve had quite a pa
Flux in Depth. Overview and Components.
This is the first blog post of the series “Flux in Depth”. Is this “yet the another
Even Faster AngularJS Data Structures
This is the last post of the series “Boost the Performance of an AngularJS Application Using Im
Boost the Performance of an AngularJS Application Using Immutable Data - Part 2
A few weeks ago I posted the article “Boost the Performance of an AngularJS Application Using I
Angular2 - First Impressions
On 18th of September 2014 was pushed the initial commit of version 2.0 of the AngularJS framework. A
Build Your own Simplified AngularJS in 200 Lines of JavaScript
My practice proved that there are two good/easy ways to learn a new technology: Re-implement it by yo
Persistent State of ReactJS Component
ReactJS is a framework, by facebook, which adds some well known concepts into the UI development. Eac
Boost the Performance of an AngularJS Application Using Immutable Data
I have affinity to functional programming since my first year in college. During my initial contact w
Processing Binary Protocols with Client-Side JavaScript
Last couple of weeks I’m trying to build high-performance consumption of binary protocol throug
Stream your Desktop to HTML5 Video Element
In this blog post I’ll share how you can stream your desktop to HTML5 video element.All you nee
Multi-User Video Conference with WebRTC
This is a tutorial for how to implement a multi-user video conference with WebRTC, AngularJS and Yeom
Asynchronous calls with ES6 generators
ES6 generators have landed in Chrome 39 Beta on 9th of October and are already available in the stabl
Binary Tree iterator with ES6 generators
ES6 specification is being clarified every passed day! One of the key features of the new version of
WebRTC chat with React.js
In this blog post I’m going to share how could be build WebRTC chat with React.js. Before we co
AngularJS in Patterns (Part 3)
This publication aims to provide a more theoretical overview of some of the AngularJS components in o
AngularJS in Patterns (Part 2). Services.
This publication aims to provide a more theoretical overview of some of the AngularJS components in o
Using GitHub Pages with Jekyll!
I’m switching to GitHub pages with Jekyll. There are several reasons behind my decision: Faster
AngularJS in Patterns (Part 1). Overview of AngularJS
In this series of blog posts I’m going to cover the paper I’m writing at GitHub.It aims to provide a
Singleton in JavaScript
Wikipedia describes the singleton design pattern as: The singleton pattern is a design pattern that r
Express over HTTPS
Sometimes you want to test your application in environment closer to the real world. In such cases yo
What I get from the JavaScript MV* frameworks
Why should I use JavaScript MVC, MVVM, MVP or simply MVW(hatever works for you)?When I talk with peop
Remote Desktop Client with AngularJS and Yeoman
In this blog post I’m going to show you how to build a VNC client using AngularJS and Yeoman. The sou
The magic of $resource (or simply a client-side Active Record)
At first sight AngularJS seems like a magical framework, which does some weird but awesome things lik
AngularJS Inheritance Patterns
Since AngularJS does not provide any built-in features for using inheritance, in this blog post I’ll
AngularAOP v0.1.0
In this blog post I’ll introduce you the new way of annotating services included in AngularAOP v0.1.0
Advanced JavaScript at Sofia University
In this blog post I’ll tell few words about the course Advanced JavaScript which Georgi Penkov, Evgen
AngularJS style guide
Today I created a GitHub repository which contains a set of good practices and style guides for Angul
Lazy prefetching of AngularJS partials
This blog post is concentrated about web performance. I’ll skip the well known stuff about combining
VNC client on 200 lines of JavaScript
In this quick blog post I’ll show you how to create a simple VNC client in about 200 lines of JavaScr
Aspect-Oriented Programming with AngularJS
In the following blog post I’ll write few words about what is Aspect-Oriented Programming, why I thin
CSS3 flipping effect
As you know because of the SIMD nature of the GPU it’s extremely good for graphical calculations. Sin
Practical programming with JavaScript
Before few months I was invited by Telerik Academy to make a talk about JavaScript. Last Monday Maria
Why I should use publish/subscribe in JavaScript
This post is inspired by my answer at StackOverflow.So why we should use publish/subscribe? Why it is
JavaScript, the weird parts
To say that JavaScript is becoming more and more popular is such a typical and boring way to start su
Functional programming with JavaScript
This article is about the functional concepts of JavaScript. Some of them are built-in the languages,
plainvm
plainvm can take the virtualization into different level of usage. To prove this I’ll first ask few r
Looking for performance? Probably you should NOT use [].sort (V8)
A few days ago, I’ve created a GitHub repository. It’s main goal was to collect different algorithms
JavaScript image scaling
I haven’t wrote here for a while so I decided to write about something more practical. Actually the i
ELang
And one more blog post by me! It’s going to be in brand new topic than the others. For about an year
Caching CSS with localStorage
Since HTML5 became wide supported the most popular aspects I hear about were it’s canvas, WebSockets
Self-invoking functions in JavaScript (or Immediately Invoked Function Expressions)
There are a lot of interesting things in the syntax of JavaScript, one of which is the definition of
Asus N56VZ + Ubuntu 12.04 (en)
It seems that it’s common a problem to setup Ubuntu on the new Asus N56VZ so I decided to create an E
Asus N56VZ + Ubuntu 12.04
Един пост на български, защото мисля, че ще бъде по-полезен.Доста време се тормозя с подкарването на
Debian Squeeze + LXDE on Google Nexus S (or having some fun while suffering)
I’m here again, after a long pause. For a while I’ve got problems with my health and I’m nailed at ho
HTML5 image editor
As you see HTML5 is everywhere (of course I exclude IE…or just before version 10). Web site us
Курсови проекти – ФМИ
Тъй като съм вече студент 3-ти курс във ФМИ и курсовите проекти се натрупаха, мисля че мога да бъда п
Carousel Gallery
And one post in English…For few days I’m developing one jQuery UI plugin. It’s picture gallery
SofiaJS...
В потребителската група SofiaJS последните няколко месеца се случиха доста интересни неща, а на мен в
Color animation plugin for jQuery
Hi! I haven’t wrote since a long time but there’s so much code and so little time…It’s bad tha
SofiaJS
Преди няколко месеца внезапно (както май често става) започнах да мисля за програмиране (как ли така&
Sound notification in web page
Few days ago I was creating a system in which it was necessary to implement a sound notification feat
f8...
Тази сутрин пуснах прословутата f8…Бях с големи очаквания (дори поствах за нея), може би зарад
Google+ API
Като всеки любознателен developer и аз се включих към хората, които искат да получат mail от Google п
Ajax without jQuery for beginners
Before years I was writing all the code by my own, without additional libraries (including jQuery). F
Blogger image resize
That’s my second post here and the first one which is going to have any sense. Today a friend of mine
Hello world!
Hey,That’s my first blog here. I’ll try to put some interesting stuff about the Life, Universe and Ev
Kent C. Dodds
Kenneth Auchenberg
Toni-Jan Keith Monserrat
Dean Hume
Experimenting with the Streams API
I am always looking for ways to build faster, slicker web pages. Where applicable, I’ll use great new
Brewfather - Progressive App Review
In my spare time I enjoy a little bit of homebrewing. What first started out as an experiment with a
Determining Service Worker Support for your Site
Have you ever thought about building a Progressive Web App or even adding a service worker to your we
Tips for setting up a Ghost blog on Amazon AWS EC2
After a long overdue refresh, I have recently moved this blog to Ghost CMS. Overall, I have been very
Software Team Maturity Matrix
Whether you lead a small team of developers, a tech startup or a huge department, it’s important that
Dynamic resources using the Network Information API and service workers
My journey to and from work involves a small journey on a train. Without fail, there is this spot alo
Getting started with the Ambient Light Sensor
Whether I’m in the car or walking around a new city, Google Maps is one of the apps that I couldn’t l
Progressive Web Apps - Book Giveaway - Results
Firstly, I'd like to say a massive thank you to everyone who retweeted and liked the tweet for this g