Idling around with Cesium renderer – part 1
We’ve been using Cesium in the past 4 years and in every project, we stretch performance a bit farther. In one of our latest projects, we thought we optimized enough, …
Kibana-API: Create and edit awesome Kibana visualizations and dashboards, inside your own app, dynamically
They are a lovely couple. We’re not talking about a super popular hollywood couple, but rather a more techy combination: Elasticsearch and Kibana. The beauty and the beast. Our beast …
Angular Redux Middleware
Angular is an awesome framework. Redux is an awesome way to manage states. Middleware is an awesome design pattern. Now, if we combine them all – wouldn’t that be… well… …
Encapsulating MapMip: How we distributed an Angular 4 based plugin as a pure JS component
Preface: MapMip MapMip (github, demo) is a JavaScript plugin that encompasses three powerful map components: Cesium, Leaflet and Openlayers3. It is a one-api for all plugin. It allows the user …
Working offline with angular-cli
Update: package name changed from angular-cli to angular’s standard:@angular/cli Working with Angular-CLI is awesome. That being said, We did run into some issues running with it offline: You need to …
Word Cloud API
General A word cloud is a tool that represents the frequency of words in text. I’ve taken D3’s word cloud plugin, and did 2 things: Engulfed it with an angularjs …
Promises are meant to be chained
How is the use of javascript promises supposed to be different from the use of mere callback functions? Promises (promise objects) are sometimes called “thenables” because one of their primary …
Using external JSON in directive init
Here’s a simple example on how to setup a simple JSON file as a config file for your directive/module: What happens here is as follows: The directive loads. It asks …
Get angular modules to talk to anything
Lately we’ve started building more and more modules that were meant to integrate within some unknown application. By unknown, I mean that we could not tell the version of angularjs …
Angularjs – unit testing directives that require controllers
It has been a rough day, trying to do it, and reading lots of methods on how to do it. To make a long story longer, we were looking for …