Liberty Global organized the Hack & Play Appathon in Ziggo dome on September 15th and 16th. More than 20 teams of hackers, designers and programmers were invited to create an app or a game for the Liberty Global product Horizon set-top box. Team Trifork joined with Dennis de Goede (Design & Frontend), Tony Abidi (Devops) and myself (Front & Backend).
Alphonso added another challenge to the appathon: Create the best integration with the Alphonso platform. Integration challenge? Sounds like a Trifork challenge to me.
For one of our projects we wanted to automate javascript concatenation/minification/tests and incorporate it into our maven build. While there are a number of maven plugins for those tasks, I’ve found that depending on another technology offered so much more and basically ended up integrating Grunt into our maven build. 
Everybody remembers that project where you need to display some data in a chart. When you select a library to create these charts you will obviously have a few requirements. One of the requirements will probably be that the charts must look good to impress your customer and if they don’t look the way you want, they must be at least be easy to style. But the most important requirement will be that the code to achieve your goal must be minimal and easy to understand. So one of the well known JavaScript library to create all kind of charts is 
Theming an application is easy, right? A solution like 
To start with Angular Directives we must first know what Google’s Angular team defines as directives, so I copied a little piece form their website and I’ll comment on that.
