The Angular team provides a tool set for creating end to end tests (e2e) called protractor http://www.protractortest.org based on WebDriver from Selenium. It’s extended by a deferred element finder and support for the ng-model notation, so it could be the ideal partner for testing AngularJS applications. But if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

One of the simplest ways to organize your projects, seminar papers and daily tasks is by using Trello. With the w11k calendar for Trello it is even easier to keep the overview of your tasks. Trello is a productivity tool that helps you organize your projects by creating individual boards, lists and cards. It is […]
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Tipps and Tricks In one of my last tasks I have had the necessity of adapting a section of a single page application (SPA), in order to get ui-router and ui-bootstrap (plus Bootstrap CSS) work together. In this article I will shortly share with you the result of my experience, by showing how to improve the coexistence […]
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Converting JavaScript code to TypeScript Here at theCodeCampus and w11k we are using TypeScript in web projects for 12 months now. Our experiences with TypeScript are overwhelming so far! Using TypeScript is a huge improvement over a JavaScript-based development, especially in larger projects. One of TypeScript’s advantages and often communicated characteristic is that its syntax is […]
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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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It is a common scenario in our projects to display tons of data in a nice, elegant and informative way. The tool to do so exists since many decades: charts. In This blog post I give an overview of angular.js directives that can easily be used to create all sorts of charts. There is a […]
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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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Due the missing feature of Trello to show cards beyond all boards in the same calendar we decided to help ourselves and started developing our own application that would fits in smoothly in our own workflow. Main goal was to achieve a simple calendar view and not to replace any features Trello already provides. In […]
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