angularjs Archives - Ben Farrell

ES6 Web Components Part 1 – A Man Without a Framework

user · October 26, 2015April 14, 2018

Before I launch into this 5-part series of posts, I just want to give a high-level overview of it: I wrote a lot. Partially because I’m long overdue on a blog post on all the stuff I’ve been experimenting with for the past several months, but mostly because much of the web tech I’ve been …

Some Geolocation and Google Mapping services in AngularJS

user · November 5, 2013

I’ve been having some fun with maps lately. It’s been a little more involved than popping a marker on a map and showing a user where they are in a static way. Instead – I need to do a fair bit of geo-math, animate a marker, and more. I picked AngularJS as my weapon of …

It’s the Open Sourced SharkAttack, yeah!

user · October 14, 2013

I’ve been working on my project called “SharkAttack” for awhile. It started out as a simple little Adobe AIR app to download new music from RSS feeds. Soon after, I rewrote the whole thing as a service with Node.js. And then, just lately I rewrote some of THAT to use Grunt.js. Anyway, the aim of …

Fun with Geolocation and the FourSquare API

user · August 8, 2013

I’m on a race to get some blogging done before my lovely wife and I embark on a weeklong car trip to move to California. Sure I can do some on the road, but I definitely want some screenshots for this post, so here I go! I’m been mixed up with 3D sensing all year …

Ideas from Flex: Visual Application States in AngularJS

user · July 22, 2013

Macrodopache Flex. That’s what I’ll call it – because during it’s different incarnations it was managed by Macromedia, then Adobe, and now Apache. This brief intro is for all the Flash haters out there. Flex is a “Rich Internet Application” framework built on top of Flash. That’s fancy talk saying it was Flash for banks …

Ideas from Game Programming: A Resource Library with AngularJS

user · July 15, 2013

This is actually a pretty simple concept – but it might not be intuitive for everyday web applications. I didn’t even think of doing this until I started making a game (of sorts) in AngularJS. The concept is a “resource library”. I’ve come across a few different game engines in Flash and elsewhere, and they …