In the past few years I’ve gotten very familiar with JavaScript and many of the libraries and frameworks out there to build and create web applications. Luckily this fits right in with my views on where things are headed. BackboneJS and AngularJS are two of the libraries I’ve gotten to work with the most recently and I’ve enjoyed both. I’ve also worked with EmberJS and some others, but I’ll talk about those later, maybe. I’ve enjoyed both backbone and Angular for different reasons, which makes … [Read more...]
120 Sports Site Launch
120 Sports launched! 120 Sports is a first-of-its-kind network partnership involving multiple leagues and media properties created for the digital generation and the devices it uses most. In 120 Sports, today's fans will have access to unauthenticated video programming through a new platform built to intuitively integrate video and data in ways they haven't experienced before. At launch, content partners will include 120 Sports equity investor Time Inc. (owner of Sports Illustrated) as well … [Read more...]
Using Angular’s $log provider
The AngularJS $logProvider Logging and debugging is a daily occurrence when developing JavaScript based applications. AngularJS provides a simple, effective way to enable logging in your applications - the $logProvider. $logProvider is a used to enable logging and the $log object is used to log within your applications objects. Enabling Enabling the $logProvider is as simple as injecting the $log object into your object and then calling $log.debug(); to send logs to the … [Read more...]
Premier League Soccer & NBC Sports
NBC Sports and Premier League Soccer NBC Sports is the New Exclusive home of the Premier League. For the first time ever, Every Game, Every Week, will be presented live on television, online, on mobile and tablet device through the Premier League Extra Time Package. The Extra Time Package will run on additional channel(s) whenever there are multiple games in progress. All games will also be live streamed online, and on iOS and Android mobile and tablets devices with NBC Sports Live … [Read more...]
AngularJS: Getting Started
Getting Started AngularJS is a JavaScript framework that provides lots of solutions to many of web development’s problems. This isn’t to say that it is the end-all-be-all of web development tools, but it does provide a great jumping off point for your web application. There are a few things that you’ll need to wrap your head around before jumping in full force but let’s take a quick look at the basics with the following super-simple web application. HTML Nothing in the HTML should … [Read more...]
AngularJS, what is it?
AngularJS, Simply Put AngularJS is a JavaScript framework. It provides an Application Programming Interface (API) that allows you to build web applications using JavaScript, HTML, & CSS. The API that Angular provides is a well thought out and robust set of solutions that provide you the ability to create powerful web applications more simply & quickly. AngularJS lets you extend HTML vocabulary for your application. The resulting environment is extraordinarily expressive, readable, … [Read more...]
AngularJS: Simple Tabs
Because of projects and personal interest, I've been working with AngularJS lately. A recent project needed a tab component to switch between views. The following is a simple prototype of the tab component that I created. With a background in Flash and Flex it is interesting and exciting to have to change my perspective on how to create and use these types of UI components. Angular forces you to think about the structure of not just the components, but also the entire application in a … [Read more...]