To work efficiently its indispensable to get detailed error messages. If you simply pipe the gulp-less task to your stream you will receive a error message – but your whole gulp task will crash.

what we get:

By default AngularJS projects use the hashbang syntax for urls to handle navigation without forcing the client to reload the whole application on every state change. Since the (HTML5) History API is available in all modern browsers the usage of the hashbang is not really required anymore. Furthermore urls look way cleaner without the hashbang. […]
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Problem Earlier this year, we started to port a customer website from a old css-style to a more modern bootstrap-style. To be more flexible, we switched from plain css to less (as a css-precompiler) and automated the build with grunt. The build was very basic and just compiled the less files into css files, we […]
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In my last post i demonstrated how to convert Strings from Hyphen Format to CamelCase in Java, using the popular Framework Guava from Google. In AngularJS this can be achieved using a Regular Expression and an AngularJS Filter. 1) Create a constant function which does the replacement Our first step is to create a Regular […]
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Problem When building applications with frameworks like AngularJS, we usually create so called “Rich Internet Applications” (RIA). The architecture of a RIA differs from a “traditional” application in several aspects: The server is (almost) stateless The client is stateful Server and client communicate over a coarse-grained interface The client contains (more) business logic With good […]
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Recently I had the requirement to add sorting to a legacy DataTables (1.7.5), the column contains data in [Monthname] YYYY and DD.MM.YYYY – DD.MM.YYYY format. For example: December 2014 15.10.14-30.10.14 January 2015 The normal DataTables sorting algorithm can only sort the column alphabetically, so we needed some improvement. After a short search on the DataTables […]
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