Personal Impressions of Croatia I've never been to Croatia. For the last seven days I've been there and it has been an amazing experience.
Personal It. Is. Done. No post for about three months? Did I die? Is my girlfriend the most time consuming human being in existence? Or did I simply forget my blog URL?
angular Polling in Angular In case you need to update data without refreshing your browser you've got different options. One of them is polling, which means continuously requesting data from the server. In case you haven't access
TypeScript Dependency Injection in TypeScript One thing I really like about mature frameworks is that they all implement some kind of dependency injection. Recently I've played around with this technology in TypeScript to get a better understanding of
Vue.js Directly injecting data to Vue apps with Symfony/Twig Usually data for Vue apps come from APIs, but ocassionally it may happen that you're rendering a Twig template with all the data you need and which you want to pass to your
Vue.js VUSION (by SES-imagotag) product configurator: First Vue.js impressions I've never really talked about client projects - let's change that by taking a look at the VUSION product configurator, my most recent project for SES-imagotag which was also my first Vue.js
JavaScript Downloading files from Ajax POST Requests Occasionally I stumble upon the need to download files from POST requests. An example would be generating PDF files, where the PDF content is dependent on the request. Interestingly this is not as
Personal Twenty seven Holy moly, I'm overdue. Over a month ago was my 27th birthday, but I completely missed out the blog post to congratulate myself. It deeply hurts my heart that I failed at congratulating
angular Working with models in Angular One thing I've got pretty used to is using models in Angular; using objects which hold your data may be pretty useful. It makes the developer live significantly easier - so let me
angular Uploading files in Angular (2/4) to a REST api I haven't written any Angular(2(/4)(+)(wtf?)) posts so far - but since I've been working with Angular (okay, let's just call it Angular) for some time now let's do so. An
Ghost Installing Ghost 1.0 (without ghost-cli) As you may have noticed things are looking slightly different here. That's because I upgraded Ghost to version 1.0. Really cool version, I love the new editor! One problem with the update
General Switching from Windows to Linux Since I'm using computers I've always been on Windows for most of the time. The only real exception so far is OS X on my MacBook - but I'm not really a "
PHP Logging events to database in Symfony I've never written any Symfony posts before, but since I've been using it in my job for some time now it's about time to change that. I really do like Symfony - it's
WordPress Not maintaining my WordPress theme, Gitsta, anymore Nearly three years ago I've released my first WordPress theme, called Gitsta, inspired by the GitHub blog. To be honest it got more attention than I'd have thought - more than 600 active
javascript AngularJS with Babel in SailsJS Since I've been porting my long-term project from CoffeeScript to native JavaScript I thought it'd be a good idea to share how it's working now. Assuming we've got a brand new SailsJS application,
javascript A technological misery: my problem with CoffeeScript today Quite some time ago I had to decide for some technologies I'd like to use for one of my projects. It's quite a big project - with some fancy requirements like realtime components
Personal Twenty six It's that time again of the year; two days ago was my birthday. Happy birthday, me! Looking back at the last year I can surely say: that was one hell of a shitty
sailsjs Flaws of the Waterline ORM SailsJS is awesome - it has many features and is mostly fun to work with. It makes writing realtime applications easier. But there's one thing I don't like about it: it's built-in ORM,
realtime Realtime is not always good During the development of my project management software I've learned one thing: realtime is not always as good as it seems. Theoretically an application which updates every single component in realtime sounds delicious
General Summer! It's been kinda quiet here, but there's a simple reason behind it: the hot days are here! But not just that; after being on sick leave for nearly a fucking year I'm fit
nodejs Realtime feed with Sails, Angular and SocketIO One of my private long-term projects has a simple but dedicated goal: a lot of its components should be realtime, hence data should update automatically and without any action required (like refreshing the
WordPress Why I'm not the biggest WordPress fan WordPress is an incredibly extensive system to create web contents, allowing you to build blogs, shops, portfolios or whatever - pretty much everything. This is awesome - so awesome that I can pay
General Why so... silent? It's been a while since my last post - and since I don't want anyone to believe my blog is dead here's a brief explanation why it has become so quiet in the
Themes My first Ghost theme, Ghoststa It's been quite some time since my last open source release, but since people actually liked my GitHub inspired WordPress theme it's time for another theme. Since I'm still not into naming things,
javascript Ember so far For the last months I've played around with a - at least for me - new client framework, EmberJS. I've done a some things with Angular and Backbone, but wanted to try something