Writing web-based line of business applications entails creating a lot of views with tables.
There are many jQuery table plugins and Angular directives for rendering tables, but I created my own for, primarily, read only tables.
AngularJS reusable table directive
posted on September 3, 2015 by long2know in angularjs, codepen, JavaScript, plunker, Web
Angular Toast Notification Service
posted on August 24, 2015 by long2know in angular, codepen, jQuery, plunker
I’ve been using the jQuery plug-in “toastr” for quite some time as a basic growl/notification system. As a basic service, it’s dead simple to wire up. If you don’t know what this plug-in does, check out the demo of it.
But, I found that I needed more interactivity than basic hide/show messaging scenarios. I needed to be able to render full templates inside of the toast messages to allow for interactivity bound to DOM events.
Angular Property State Watcher and Setter Directive
posted on August 17, 2015 by long2know in angular, codepen, JavaScript, plunker
Ok, I couldn’t think of a good title for this post. But, I found this concept to be pretty interesting.
Basically, I wanted a directive that would allow me to watch AND set a property as if it were a state changing bool. This needs a bit more explaining, I’m sure.
JavaScript and Web sandboxes
posted on August 10, 2015 by long2know in JavaScript, Web
In case you hadn’t noticed, I use JsFiddle for most of JavaScript demos and to embed samples into my blog. I like JsFiddle, but it does have a few annoyances.
As a result, I started looking at some alternates.
Github and Plunker
posted on August 7, 2015 by long2know in angular, JavaScript, Web
To make some of the demos I’ve been posting lately, especially Angular and JavaScript demos, easier to download/use, I’ve made a Github repo to house the source and demo code.
Annoying IE CSS Bugs
posted on August 6, 2015 by long2know in css, jsfiddle, Web
Being a web developer, I’ve had my fair share of problematic IE behavior. Microsoft’s browsers up to, and including, IE11 are not very good in terms of standards compliance. This is pretty well known with web developers.
Well, after my post yesterday regarding CSS flexbox, I found that IE10/11 exhibit some odd discrepancies.
AngularJS Date before and after validation
posted on July 23, 2015 by long2know in angularjs, JavaScript, Web
In most of the UI’s I work on lately, it’s necessary to provide start and end date selection. The typical use case is for setting date ranges for searching and storage of effective dates.
Being that these are typically Angular applications, tying into Angular’s form validation makes a lot of sense.
Angular multiselect dropdown
posted on July 21, 2015 by long2know in angular, JavaScript, jsfiddle
Mutliselect drop-downs are somewhat of a pain. It’s always nice when things are simple and discrete. But, the world is not simple and discrete. Life isn’t simple and discrete.
I find myself many times in need of a good, general purpose multiselect dropdown with checkboxes. There are many options for multiselect, like select2, but for some reason having discrete checkboxes is generally overlooked. This is where rolling my own came into play.
EDIT: Be sure to check out the updated info. for this directive. https://blog.long2know.com/2016/05/angular-multiselect-dropdown-updated/
Focus on an element in Angular
posted on July 16, 2015 by long2know in angular, JavaScript, jsfiddle
Earlier today, I helped a colleague on a small issue. That issue was giving focus to an element in a modal once the modal is loaded.
This seems trivial, but it’s actually not entirely straight-forward due to Angular’s digest cycle.
As usual, I wanted to wrap this into a reusable directive.
Angular Data-driven Form elements
posted on July 16, 2015 by long2know in angular, ASP.NET, JavaScript, jsfiddle
In many of my latest applications, it’s necessary to have data drive what a form-element actually lets the user enter. For example, I may have a drop-down to select a property, and then, based on that property, a common text-box is used for its entry.
Sometimes its nice to have the data-type of the property drive a user-friendly experience.