posted on March 28, 2015 by long2know in Running
The Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon (CHKM) is tomorrow. This marks two full years that I’ve been running in organized races and the third time that I will participate in this event.
My preparation for the half-marathon has not been quite what I wanted. Pervasive aches and pains have side-lined me for most of March, and at this point I would be extremely lucky to complete the half-marathon in less than two hours. In fact, this may go on record as being one of my worst performances.
posted on March 28, 2015 by long2know in angular, ASP.NET, JavaScript, jsfiddle, Web
Previously in my discussion of how I like to use the ui-router and states for basic layout functionality, I touched on the basic tenants of what I see as prominent in many SPA applications. In this discussion, I’d like to dig a little deeper and illustrate a simplified implementation of a menu navigation system.
In developing a menu navigation system, I initially consider how flexible I need the navigation to be. If users can change states with hopeless abandon, then define your states and use ui-sref and nothing more. If we need more functionality, we need a more robust solution.
posted on March 26, 2015 by long2know in angular
Angular’s routing does a lot for us. Whether you’re using ui-router or ngRouter, you get a many powerful mechanisms to determine when your state has changed. There are times, though, that I want a “global state.”
What do I mean by global state?
posted on March 25, 2015 by long2know in ASP.NET, JavaScript, Mobile, Web
Today I spent a few hours playing around with Apache Cordova. If you don’t know what that is, it’s basically a set of API’s that let you deploy Web Apps (JavaScript) to a mobile device and then have access to that device’s hardware.
If you’re already writing SPA-type apps, Apache Cordova can be a quick way to deploy your Web App to a mobile device and have it behave just like a native app.
posted on March 24, 2015 by long2know in angular, JavaScript, jsfiddle, Web
Yes, yes, you’ve probably seen posts regarding creating a modal dialog service before. I’ve been using one for a bit and wanted to share my spin on this concept.
Angular’s ui-bootstrap directives provide a lot of functionality out of the box. Having the $modal providers really make it easy to manage dialogs. While it is easy to create your own service that can create simple OK/Cancel requests, it is also pretty straight forward to create modals that let you pass data back and forth to your calling controller.
posted on March 24, 2015 by long2know in angular, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Security, Web
In .NET when I’m dealing with WebAPI controllers, I like to secure them. Typically, this is done with an [Authorize] attribute on the controller or the controller’s actions.
One problem that arises with .NET, though, is that a user’s auth token/cookie could be expired because they are inactive for a set amount of time. Imagine that you’ve written a shiny new SPA-type web app and is SOA driven. When the user resumes accessing your site, all of the API end-points will fail until the user logs back in.
posted on March 22, 2015 by long2know in angular, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Web
I’m not one to clutch strongly to ideals, or entrench myself in unrelenting philosophies, but I am a creature of habit. Most of my web applications over the past year have been Angular based and I have certain proclivities to particular structures in my applications. My IDE of choice has been Visual Studio 2013, so I take advantage of it and .NET to serve up my base structure.
In dealing with VS2013/.NET, there are some base mechanisms of which I take advantage. The ones I’d like to discuss are .NET bundling and Nuget.
posted on March 20, 2015 by long2know in ASP.NET, Security, Web
Ok, when you title a blog post as Part 1, you better follow up with a Part 2. I hadn’t forgotten, but it’s taken a little to come back around to my adventures with ASP.NET Identity.
Where was I? Oh yeah, last time I discussed how to, mostly, get ASP.NET Identity working with a pre-existing security model. This was working fine for me with the v2.1 Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework packages, but when I updated to the v2.2 packages, things broke.
For whatever reason, the Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework v2.2 packages changed the flow. The v2.1 packages, with my modest code modifications, didn’t seem to go back to the local (EF) database to update/create the current user. But, it may have been performing a check for user existence and then doing a upsert. The v2.2 packages, though, broke this paradigm.
posted on March 20, 2015 by long2know in Web
My relationship with Microsoft, and especially Windows, is a love hate relationship. For some inane reason, Microsoft continues to differentiate their server/desktop products. Yet, the code bases for those products are, in effect identical.
Microsoft’s separation of product lines ultimately hurts consumers. We wind up with identical products that are artificially limited.
posted on March 19, 2015 by long2know in angular, JavaScript
Request interceptors in Angular are extremely handy. They are essentially like jQuery’s global settings for $.ajax requests. There are some not-so-subtle differences and framework tie-ins as well.
One of the simplest things I like to use request interceptors is for displaying an activity indicator. My favorite activity indicator is spin.js as well.
