Current blog entries

Some days ago, the new Angular2 RC3 release candidate (and also some days earlies RC2) has been released. Again, some changes were made to the Angular2 structure that everyone needs to update in their Angular2 applications to become compatible to the new version…. more

This article demonstrates how to set up an Angular2 project with Webpack. The setup also supports Typescript, Less, CSS packages like Twitter Bootstrap and Fonts e.g. FontAwesome. It describes how to set up all the different plugins, loaders etc. I needed for… more

In Angular2 you can use “pipes” (in earlier versions called “filters”) to adjust data bindings to given situations. Then name comes from the “pipe symbol” (|) that is also known from Unix/Linux command shells to manipulate data streams. In Angular 2, the… more

In this article I want to show how to use the “Reactive Events” library RxJS to handle asynchronous event processing in AngularJS2. In many Javascripts frameworks asynchronous events are handled by either providing a callback function to be called, or be retrieving… more

In the past we often had some software (e.g. web application inside an application  server) that needed to be deployed on multiple servers, different stages (development, staging, production) and even on some machines hosted by a customer, but managed by ourselves. To… more

This article summarizes a couple of changes I encountered during the migration of angular2 beta 17 to angular2 rc1. Angular2 Packages for RC1 Previously angular2 could be pulled in by npm using the following configuration entry in package.json

Now all packages… more

When you are building applications or libraries in the Scala programming language, you will most likely use a tool like “SBT” (Scala Build Tool) or “Lightbend Activator” (which is an extended distribution of SBT) to configure, build and package your project. These… more

Recently one of our customers faced the challenge of fixing a production error in his desktop client application. Using SVN this may be a time consuming and error-prone task. So I held a workshop about Git and GitFlow. Git Our customer’s application is… more

This article demonstrates how the Hangfire dashboard can be set up in an ASP .NET 5 application including authentication via ASP .NET Identity. Adding Hangfire Packages project.json:

Since I am using Hangfire with SQL, I have to add Hangfire itself and Hangfire.SqlServer… more