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The new Angular Router – a simple example

Ken Rimple | March 15, 2015

In this post, we’ll look at how the new AngularJS router is configured, and how you can use it to route to a view area on a page. We’ll follow up with more sophisticated examples later, but for now, this is a simple ‘getting started’ post. I’ve taken a copy of a release candidate of Angular 1.4.0, the Router as of the week of 3/15/2015, and the latest version of Angular Material Design – a nice and simple UI layout API that is a nice alternative to Twitter Bootstrap. I used it for a simple image gallery display program.

ng-conf 2015 – Day 1 keynote with Brad Green, Igor Minar – Angular 1, 2, new router and more

Ken Rimple | March 9, 2015

An overview of the sessions at ng-conf 2015, where Angular 1.x and 2.0 are going, and information about APIs such as the new router and animation libraries.

ng-conf 2015 – Misko Hevery's Angular 2.0 Keynote – syntax, approach

Ken Rimple | March 9, 2015

We start our coverage of ng-conf 2015 with day 2's keynote by Misko Hevery, because that's what everyone had been waiting for since the debut of 2.x at his keynote back at ng-conf Europe. This time, Misko laid out the rationale for the platform rewrite quite clearly, explaining that it was driven by developer productivity needs and performance.

Akka HTTP: Getting Started

Michael Pigg | February 16, 2015

In this tutorial we’ll create a very simple web app using Akka HTTP.

Android density buckets, or how to work with your designers…

Joe Berger | February 9, 2015January 6, 2021

How does Android development compare with your plain old development? Well, in short words it’s very rewarding in a sense that you see results of your work right away. You can also deploy it right to your phone or a tablet and brag about it to your friends. However, there are pitfalls…

Northeast Scala Symposium 2015

Michael Pigg | February 3, 2015

The Northeast Scala Symposium just wrapped up in Boston. The Northeast Scala Symposium just wrapped up in Boston. I braved the snow, ice, and bitter cold with Don Coleman, Al Iacovella, Nicolas Kijak, and Ken Rimple and lived to tell about it. We’ve collected highlights from a few of our favorite sessions in this blog post.

FSM Actors in Akka

Michael Pigg | January 27, 2015

This post takes a look at the basic features of the FSM trait in Akka and implements a simple Tic Tac Toe game actor along with tests.

Exploring the Play Framework: Testing

Michael Pigg | January 21, 2015

This is the first in a series of posts in which we will explore building applications with the Play Framework. Today we will focus on creating a very simple barebones application and applying some tests to it. Starting A Skeleton Application Complete sample code for this article can be found at play-samples/minimal. The only prerequisite for following along with this article is to have a recent version of sbt installed. We’ll start by creating a project directory called play-minimal. Since…

Five Key Technologies for 2015

Aaron Mulder | December 24, 2014

While we keep our eye on all kinds of emerging technologies, here are five in particular we’ll be paying attention to in 2015:

Technologies We're Watching for Early 2015

Ken Rimple | December 23, 2014

A group of Charioteers sat down last week to discuss some of the technologies and tools we have been and will be watching in 2015 – some beginning to establish themselves in the enterprise, and some still in early stages of adoption.

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