Guido Tapia
September 20, 2016
Angular2 (NG2) Focus Directive
Requesting focus on an input field is surprisingly hard in angular2. Especially when the input field is inside a dialog or an *ngIf that is not initially visible. After much trial and error this is the solution I came up with. It works on my machine ...
July 3, 2016
Angular 2 and Internet Explorer 9 (IE9)
Getting Angular2 and IE9 working together is not very straight forward, since the move to release candidates some of the Shim libraries have been changed and others removed from the NG2 packages making things confusing. After some research this is wh ...
June 30, 2016
Upgrading to Angular 2 - Reactive Forms (RC3 New Forms)
Upgrading to new the new form engine in Angular 2 (RC3) is fairly straight forward and not nearly as dawnting as some of the router changes in the past. So here is my quick and dirty how to which worked on my projects (no other guarantee). Firstly - ...
June 1, 2016
VANguard and Federated Authentication Service
We recently completed an integration project, where we connected a complex QlikView visualisation and analytics application to VANguard federated authentication service. VANguard is a service provided by the Federal government that allows government ...
May 23, 2016
Angular 2 Forms Wrapper - Clean forms
Angular 2 forms are very powerful, the custom validation support is extremely flexible and easy to use. However, this power and flexibility comes at a cost; and that is boiler plate. To nicely integrate validations into the user interface you need a ...
May 20, 2016
My experience so far with Angular 2
I know it's still early in the piece for ng2 but we have to date worked on 3 angular 2 projects. These projects range from very small (5-10 pages/routes) to medium (50-70 pages/routes). We started on beta1 and we are now here at RC1, here is my exper ...