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When learning a new framework I often find it is useful to examine the source, use the framework, then go into a separate project and build the functionality from scratch to better understand the motivation behind the framework and what it may be saving me by using it. Angular is no exception. There are many tools in the AngularJS toolbox, ...

Today a very short post. Angular has a series of utility functions which you should definitely take a look at. They are not as feature rich as those of underscore.js or lodash.js but might be more than enough for your needs. This article is part of my “Learning NG” series, presenting some of my adventures while learning Angular. Check out ...

EDITORIAL NOTE: In this post, we feature a comprehensive HTML5 Dropdown menu example with CSS3. A dropdown menu is a toggleable menu that allows the user to choose one value from a predefined list. Introduction The web has evolved into something more than just linked documents; pages behave increasingly these days like apps. Even a few years ago we would ...

EDITORIAL NOTE: In this post, we feature a comprehensive HTML5 File Upload Example. Today I’ll explain how to use HTML 5, to read information about file(s) selected by users, and to upload the file(s) on a server. The FileApi is one of the most interesting features added with HTML 5. Now we can display file(s) information before they are uploaded on the server, ...

OpenLayers3 offers the ol.source.GeoJSON class that allows to read data from a GeoJSON source (an URL, a JavaScript object or a text string). Maybe you, like me, has spent some time trying to understand why your GeoJSON data is not rendering properly: projection is fine, your GeoJSON is well formed and validated but OpenLayers3 doesn’t return any features and so ...

Everybody around you seems to be blogging and talk about effective and SEO-friendly content. You get all of this but don’t know how would you write SEO-friendly content. Where do you start? And what to blog about? How to structure content so that it shows up on Google SERP and drive traffic to your blog. If you are interested in details, read ...

I don’t quite remember, guess it was about more than a year ago when I came across a Svbtle-hosted blog where I noticed a small little circle, bouncing when you hover it and showing a number followed by “Kudos”. What are Kudos? Read ahead and see how I created my own version using Firebase as the backend storage. Note, if ...

Since some time ago, more and more techniques have been applied in Web Development to obtain information from the server in client side, avoiding the need to reload the page or moving into another to see a last minute update or the result of a form submitting. AJAX is a group of interrelated Web development techniques used on the client-side ...

EDITORIAL NOTE: In this post, we feature a comprehensive JavaScript Try Catch Exception Example. The try statement lets you test a block of code for errors. The catch statement lets you handle the error. An important issue to solve, for those of you who use JavaScript as their programming language of choice, is handling errors. They are inevitable and unpredictable ...