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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In this second part of our article about ESLint we will dive into the most interesting feature of this tool: its customizability. You can find the first part of this article here. As background’s knowledge, in our introduction to the linting tools, we have discussed the most interesting linters and their pros and contras. After […]
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Historically, “to lint“ is an expression that denotes the process of flagging and highlighting some inadequate and error-prone construct in C-like language source code. After the emerging of heterogeneous software languages, the term has been universally adopted to generally indicate tools that are able to herald suspicious usages in software. This article is the first of a series of […]
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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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