Blogs|Apr 6, 2014

JavaScript Chaos with Canvas

I learned about chaos theory quite by accident. On a family vacation we stopped by a campground along the Blue Ridge Parkway in the Appalachian Mountains. I was not an outdoor enthusiast at the time so while my parents were hiking I preferred to head over to the arcade to play Donkey Kong and Tempest.…
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Blogs|Mar 30, 2014

Angular: The Modern HTML5 Answer to Silverlight’s MVVM

First, let me say that I realize Silverlight in no way “owns” the Model-View-View Model pattern. I’ve written on this extensively in my article “MVVM Explained.” However, I believe it gained the most public exposure through various implementations on that platform and this is what led to its adoption on the web. In fact, you…
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Blogs|Mar 11, 2014

Become a Development Wizard and Win an XBox One!

For the past decade Wintellect has been helping developers like you improve what you do by sharing how we do it with our enterprise customers. We’re not just trainers, but hands on consultants who have spent combined centuries of experience in the trenches shoulder to shoulder with teams to create next generation software using the…
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Blogs|Feb 10, 2014

Use Zone to Trigger Angular Digest Loop for External Functions

To continue my series on the power of Zone, I examine yet another powerful and useful way you can use zones to improve your application. If this is your first time learning about Zone, read my introduction to Zone titled Taming Asynchronous Tasks in JavaScript with Zone.js. Anyone familiar with Angular apps has run into…
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Blogs|Feb 8, 2014

Instrumenting Angular with Zone

In my last post I described an open source tool from the Angular team called Zone that allows you to execute a JavaScript workflow within an execution context. I demonstrated how to instrument a sequence of asynchronous events using Zone. This is a short post to follow-up and illustrate how to do the same thing…
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javascript|Feb 7, 2014

Taming Asynchronous Tasks in JavaScript with Zone.js

I recently learned about a new project by the Angular team called Zone. This project is one of those rare gems that is only a few lines of code but is so groundbreaking it literally takes time to wrap your mind around it. The easiest way to get started with Zone is to watch the…
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wintellect-blogs|Feb 2, 2014

Video: Angular and the .NET World

While I was at the Angular ng-conf I had the opportunity to sit down with .NET luminaries Ward Bell, John Papa, and Dan Wahlin to discuss why Angular is so important to .NET developers with Ian Smith. We cover lots of ground, including real world benefits we’ve received by integrating Angular into projects and how…
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wintellect-blogs|Jan 17, 2014

ngConf Report: Day 2 of Angular Goodness

Yesterday was a fantastic day. I spent the afternoon helping out at the Wintellect booth. There is a rumor I may have been seen challenging attendees to a game of 9-ball in the game room once or twice. I also attended two great sessions, one about dependency injection and the other a panel discussion. The…
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wintellect-blogs|Jan 16, 2014

ngConf Report: Day 1

The world’s first public Angular conference kicked off today in Salt Lake City and I was excited to attend with Wintellect. Our company has been using Angular along with other tools like TypeScript to build enterprise apps scaled across large development teams for a year now, and were able to bring most of the team…
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Blogs|Jan 13, 2014

Interception using Decorator and Lazy Loading with AngularJS

Angular provides it’s own dependency injection that supports everything from annotations to decorators. Interception is a feature that allows you to extend, intercept, or otherwise manipulate existing services. It makes it easy to monkey-patch existing APIs to suite the specific needs of your application. You can build an app that relies on the built-in services…
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Blogs|Jan 10, 2014

Understanding Providers, Services, and Factories in Angular

I’ve read quite a few posts (as well as questions posed) about the differences between services and factories in Angular. I’ve seen just as many attempts to explain it and even fell victim to trying to force an explanation for the difference myself. The answer is more simple than you may think and is evident…
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wintellect-blogs|Dec 11, 2013

The Windows Runtime and the Web

A big “thank you” to the Chattanooga .NET Users Group for hosting my talk last night. I presented “Windows Runtime and the Web.” Although this talk is similar to one I presented earlier at DevLink, I updated the content exclusively for Windows 8.1 and added some new features. The topics I cover include: The WebView…
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