by Lukas Ruebbelke | Oct 30, 2014 | AngularJS, JavaScript, Node, Programming
The Setup Welcome back to another installment of the of building a simple REST application with AngularJS! In the previous lesson, we learned how to consume a REST API in AngularJS using $http. In this lesson, we are going to see an alternate approach using an...
by Lukas Ruebbelke | Oct 14, 2014 | AngularJS, JavaScript, Programming, UI
The Backstory We are going to take a break from the RESTful API series and tackle an interesting challenge that my partner in crime Shane Mielke asked me to help him solve the other day. We needed to filter a list of items depending on whether it was created before or...
by Lukas Ruebbelke | Oct 1, 2014 | AngularJS, JavaScript, Node, Programming
The Project Welcome to the first part of a series where we are going to learn how to build a simple REST website using AngularJS, Node.js and MongoDB. When we are finished with the series, we will have a fully working website with a master-detail interface that uses...
by Lukas Ruebbelke | Sep 23, 2014 | AngularJS, Greensock, JavaScript, jQuery, UI
The Setup Before I was a ‘modern web application developer’, I actually learned how to program in Flash and then Flex. Platform rhetoric aside, the Flash guys are the original gangstas when it comes to slick, animated user interfaces. In this post, I want...
by Lukas Ruebbelke | Sep 16, 2014 | AngularJS, JavaScript, UI
The Backstory I will be the first person to admit that I love pretty things. A lot of what I do is cause and effect from seeing something really awesome and then being compelled to go build some version of it. The pricing menu at Joyent completely captured my...
by Lukas Ruebbelke | Sep 9, 2014 | AngularJS, Firebase, Greensock, JavaScript
Some Real Talk I am a programmer because ultimately I love to create things. And I find that my most gratifying creations come from taking a simple idea and iterating over and over on it and exploring different ideas around a single premise. I love that moment when...