For one of our projects we wanted to create some nice charts. Feels like something you often want but do not do because it takes to much time. This time we really needed it. I had prior experience with Highcharts, which is also a nice library. But this time we wanted more control. We had […]
Angular Directives, a beginners guide – part 2
In my previous blog post (part 1) about Angular Directives, I provided you with an introduction into what Directives are and how to use them. The short recap is that you can use Directives to add markers to a DOM element and then tell the AngularJS compiler to add behavior or modify that element. In […]
Angular Directives, a beginners guide – part 1
What are directives? 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. “At a high level, directives are markers on a DOM element (such as an attribute, element name, or CSS class) that tell […]
Internationalization with AngularJS
Many web applications need to support multiple languages. The process of building in this support in a piece of software can be split in two parts: Getting it technically ready to support multiple languages/regions, and getting it ready for a particular language/region. The first part is called internationalization, often abbreviated to i18n (18 being the […]
Dynamic web forms with AngularJS
When we’re building web applications containing data entry forms, it’s sometimes a requirement that (part of) the form is dynamic, in the sense that the fields to be included in the form need to be determined at runtime. For instance, this may be required if application managers need to be able to add new data […]
Web forms with Java: AngularJS and other approaches
After learning about AngularJS a couple of months ago, I started using it on new Java web projects, and that has been a great pleasure. If you haven’t worked with AngularJS yet, you may be wondering what the hype is all about and whether or not it’s a thing worthwhile of investing your time in. […]
AngularJS: Lessons learned
At Devoxx 2012 I attended the AngularJS presentation by Igor Minar and Misko Hevery. I was very enthusiastic about the capabilities of this front-end framework. Therefore I started experimenting with it. I created a sample for the Axon Framework, read more about it here. After my experiments I felt confident enough to start using it […]
Basic Axon Framework sample using vert.x and angular.js
Some people on the Axon Framework mailing list were asking for more basic samples, preferably using something like vert.x. Since I am familiar with Axon as well as vert.x I thought I could help out. Therefore I have created a very basic application based on vert.x using the Axon Framework. The application is all about […]