Joel Hooks : Building Blocks - Latest Comments

Re: Flex Date and Time (datetime) Picker Control

Ankur Kr Sinha — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 04:31:33 -0000

i haven't got the source please paste it over here if possible ....

Re: Flex Date and Time (datetime) Picker Control

Rom's — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 04:07:44 -0000

"I couldn’t figure out how to have double digits on the 0-9 minutes." you should have a look at labelFunction ;)

Re: Form Validation for the Lazy Programmer in Flex

Tim — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 21:22:18 -0000

things to note: Awesome!
add your array in the <fx:declarations>
add it to the namespace in your <s:view xmlns:validators="com.company.whereever.*"> </s:view>
other than that beautiful. Finished my project and I realized this was missing for my class requirements. Took less than 30 minutes to put in place for all my forms and worked perfectly.

Re: Flex Date and Time (datetime) Picker Control

Joel Hooks — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 09:23:27 -0000

Hey Pablo, glad it was useful. This one is officially a "classic" lol

Re: Lessons Learned: A Year with a Large AngularJS Project

NewmanOZ — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:18:54 -0000

Funny pistol :)

Re: Lessons Learned: A Year with a Large AngularJS Project

Stephen Connolly — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:54:33 -0000

I am hoping to make the build experience of this type if app a lot better when using Maven with my jszip.org plugins and packaging types... Still only alpha, so not recommended for use in anger yet, but as a PoC as to what can be done I think it shows what the toolchain will be capable of

Re: Lessons Learned: A Year with a Large AngularJS Project

Alex Loizou — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:24:22 -0000

Thanks for sharing you experience. I started working with Angular a couple of months ago, it's really powerful. Had some problems with html5 mode and google indexing though (I guess one page apps aren't really meant to be SEO friendly) but all in all it saved me a lot of time!

Re: Lessons Learned: A Year with a Large AngularJS Project

Adriaan — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:48:12 -0000

Great post! I am using AngularJS for almost a year right now, and I managed to create a really nice modular-style-architecture within the fashion you mentioned. Mainly using directives as modules and sharing controllers.

example: [mod-base data-module="mod-news-table" data-title="..." data-icon="..."][/modbase]

The mod-base wrapper has an isolated scope and loads/compiles the final module ('mod-news-table'). The mod-news-table uses the ModNewsCtrl. This way you can 'share' your controllers between different modules, for example a 'mod-news-create'-directive can use the same ModNewsCtrl. Took me a while to figure out, but it makes it really organised and logical.

Re: Lessons Learned: A Year with a Large AngularJS Project

Alejandro García — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:18:01 -0000

Have you checked Meteor? meteor.com

Re: Lessons Learned: A Year with a Large AngularJS Project

ontk — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:24:01 -0000

Inheritence should be spelled Inheritance :)

Re: Lessons Learned: A Year with a Large AngularJS Project

Pedr Browne — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:18:08 -0000

Are the Models derived from anything in Angular or are they separate? 'For non-singleton models we use providers to logic out what is being requested' Could you expand on this a little please? I'm struggling with this at the moment and haven't found a solution I'm happy with. Do you mean you pass in provider as the dependency and do SomeProvider.instance()?

Re: Lessons Learned: A Year with a Large AngularJS Project

Joel Hooks — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:58:24 -0000

We use "VOs" and wrap them in Models RL style. For non-singleton models we use providers to logic out what is being requested. This is for a "user with multiple accounts" situation, where each account is a context. It is a bit cumbersome, actually, but works.

Re: Lessons Learned: A Year with a Large AngularJS Project

Joel Hooks — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:56:53 -0000

We actually use a Node proxy in between the real services. It has been a huge help, and I plan to write that up next. No shared models though.

Re: Lessons Learned: A Year with a Large AngularJS Project

Brian Corrigan — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:55:15 -0000

Great post. We're just starting a large AngularJS project, and there's not enough information like this out there. Have you built anything with Node.js as a backend? Tried sharing any models & such? We're doing a bit of this.. It's code-inception :)

Re: Lessons Learned: A Year with a Large AngularJS Project

Pedr Browne — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:54:45 -0000

Thanks. Your vote of confidence in Angular is very reassuring. I'd be really interested to know how you approached the model layer in detail; did you wrap VOs/DTOs with models (Robot Legs style) or use them as the models themselves? If the former, how did you weld the models into the framework? As Services? Then what about situations where you need non-singleton models? If the latter, how did you deal with getters and setters and keeping model state?

Re: Lessons Learned: A Year with a Large AngularJS Project

Al — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:26:48 -0000

Thanks for Sharing tips. I am always looking for such information on organizing code and using practices which can make project better to maintain on long run

Re: 5 Essential VIM Plugins

Joel Hooks — Sat, 11 May 2013 19:13:40 -0000

Prostyle! Great tip man, thanks.

Re: 5 Essential VIM Plugins

Jeremy Saenz — Sat, 11 May 2013 18:10:37 -0000

ctrlp is a great plugin. The one thing that bugged me about it was that the indexing was slow in large projects. I found out there is a way to delegate to git for listing out files, which is way faster.

let g:ctrlp_user_command = ['.git/', 'cd %s && git ls-files --exclude-standard -co']

Re: AngularJS, Dependency Injection, and When is a singleton not a Singleton?

Lukas Ruebbelke — Thu, 02 May 2013 02:44:12 -0000

Baller! Way to raise the bar #highFive

Re: 5 Essential VIM Plugins

claytron — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:27:55 -0000

Syntastic is such a life saver. Love that plugin!

re: NERDTree, let the haters hate, it is still awesome. I use the bookmarks and the NERDTreeFind all the time.

Re: A rose by any other name?

John C. Bland II — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:02:04 -0000

Record it. Would be very educational, I'm sure.

Re: A rose by any other name?

Joel Hooks — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:35:41 -0000

lol, I sent the email kind ;)

What I'd like to do is spend an hour pair programming with Rob. Don't know if it is something he'd be in to, but voice+code seems like the appropriate medium.

Re: A rose by any other name?

Aaron Hardy — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:32:01 -0000

Nothing but respect. The thread was interesting for a while and had a bit of educational value. On a post about how to get things done with Angular, however, the semantics were not a roadblock to understanding (from my perspective) and I can understand why you'd rather have the thread die down--along with the other stuff going on in...you know...life.

FWIW, in my experience arguments feel hotter when you're one of the participants than when you're watching from the sidelines. I know you know your stuff and it sounds like Rob does too. Just a quibble that happens between engineers at times.

I hope things get better with the coach situation and I look forward to future Angular posts.

Re: A rose by any other name?

John C. Bland II — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:31:54 -0000

Yeah. Olive branches are on sale at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Metal....

;-)

Re: 5 Essential VIM Plugins

Joel Hooks — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:39:21 -0000

Ya, that has been suggested several times. I was actually wanting this functionality while adding links to blog posts. Definitely on my list to check out.