The Cloud
What does Metal Toad do?
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AngularJS
AngularJS
Angular API Calls with Django, Part 2: Building the Micro-Blog App
This is the second part of a two-part series exploring the use of the Angular 6 HttpClient to make API calls against a Django back-end using Django...
AWS
Angular API Calls with Django: Authentication with JWT
Curious about how to make API calls with Angular 6 and the HttpClient service? This tutorial will show you some techniques for building a decoupled...
AngularJS
Angular 6: Upgrading API calls to RxJS 6
With the release of Angular 6.0 in May 2018, the framework has been updated to depend on version 6.0 of the RxJ
AWS
Angular 5: Making API calls with the HttpClient service
Angular 4.3 introduced a new HttpClient service, which is a replacement for the Http service from Angular 2. It works mostly the same as the old...
Artificial Intelligence
Secrets to Project Happiness Using Git
I have worked with dozens of projects over my career, on platforms ranging from Drupal to Yii to Django to AngularJS
Artificial Intelligence
URL Routing for a Decoupled App, with Angular 2 and Django
Lately, I have worked on a few projects where a single-page Angular app is contained within a site built on a server-side framework like Django.
AngularJS
Angular 2: Using the HTTP Service to Write Data to an API
Update, November 27, 2017: This post explains the Http service used in Angular 2. This is now deprecated in favor of the newer HttpClient released in...
Education
The Open Source Apprenticeship Model
The software industry is facing a workforce shortage of unprecedented proportions.
AWS
Angular 2: HTTP, Observables, and concurrent data loading
How to run multiple concurrent HTTP requests, with the callbacks running only after all of them have completed with Angular 2.
AWS
AngularJS: Adding a user-friendly default option to ng-options
Angular's ng-options directive provides a nifty way to build a select element based on an array in your scope. It can even bind the options to...
Artificial Intelligence
OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect: Now What?
A former Toad recently asked my opinion about this article:OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell
AngularJS
AngularJS Query String handling using $location.search()
Note: This article refers to AngularJS v1.x only.
AngularJS
Angular JS Promises: From Service to Template
In this blog post, we will learn how to request an HTTP GET call from an AngularJS Service and display the data in the template while avoiding the...
The Cloud
Full Stack Basics for the Non-Developer
Let's visualize and talk about the "full stack" of web development.
Agile
Drupalcon Austin: Toads in Texas
Turns out that Toads migrate south in the summer. At first, we assumed this was some instinctual need to get as close to the sun as possible.
Artificial Intelligence
Comparison of AngularJS cache vs. browser HTTP cache
When working with Angular's $http service, one of the nifty options is a built-in cache service.
Artificial Intelligence
How To: Create a form show/hide password system in AngularJS
Numerous times during working with AngularJS there have been these moments of, oh, wow... OH, now that's cool... wow...
Artificial Intelligence
Angular services and useable patterns
AngularJS is a relatively new javascript framework that is taking the web application development world by storm.
AngularJS
ToadCast 015 - ECommerce
Joining me for Toadcast 15 is Tom Martin to discuss ecommerce. That's right, a show all about a single topic!
AngularJS
ToadCast 010 - I Hope You Like Opinions
Here we go again! ToadCast 010, I was joined by Aaron Amstutz and Tony Rasmussen to discuss Apple, Google, and Microsoft hardware & dissonance with...