Before I left my previous company, I decided to introduce the mediator pattern in order to encapsulate the communication between our data models and the WebSocket. Although the implementation was a bit simple, I think it has a lot of power and future possibilities, making the code cleaner and unit testing live updates easier. Continue reading
Tag Archives: JavaScript
How I joined Toptal
Back in October I got an invitation to join Toptal which is a platform that connects top class engineers with software companies.
What makes it different from other freelancing networks is that all the applicants go through a selection process and only 3% of them are accepted. Continue reading
Four days in Paris for ng-europe
Last Sunday, October 19th, I flew to Paris to spend four days in the first AngularJS conference in Europe. And this is my summary and some notes about the great experience there. Continue reading
Mocking Services for AngularJS tests
One of the things that I’ve enjoyed more in the last year is Test Driven Development, with the satisfaction of seeing the green after all tests have passed. AngularJS is written with testability in mind which makes testing applications easy. And although it can be hard to grasp at the beginning, there are a lot of good resources around to learn how to unit test the application logic. Continue reading
AngularJS Capitalize Filter
Over a month ago I was messing around with CSS when I realized the text-transform property with the capitalize keyword works just with lowercase text, as it forces the first letter of each word to be converted to uppercase keeping the rest of the characters unchanged. Continue reading
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