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• Using A Dynamic Column Name With ValueList() In ColdFusion

  Posted on May 20, 2013 at 10:51 AM

  @Josh, Oh snap! You're totally right! I'm not sure I've ever tried that. I did know that you can call a number of other array-methods on ColdFusion query columns: read more »

• What If All User Interface (UI) Data Came In Reports?

  Posted on May 14, 2013 at 7:13 PM

  @Jonah, If there's any books you'd recommend on the subject of domain modelling, I'd love to hear it. I just downloaded the free PDF of "Domain Driven Design Quickly". Figured I'd give it a quick read before tackling Eric Evan's book. What happens when you switch f... read more »

• The UX Of Prototyping: Low-Fidelity Is The New High-Fidelity

  Posted on May 14, 2013 at 6:57 PM

  @Phillip, I'm not sure I follow what you mean? Are you saying that you looked at the list of widgets provided by the jQuery UI and let that be your style guide?... read more »

• The UX Of Prototyping: Low-Fidelity Is The New High-Fidelity

  Posted on May 14, 2013 at 6:56 PM

  @David, It's a bit of a fuzzy line. I try really hard to keep things low-fidelity as a UX designer. However, there are definitely times when I have a specific vision of how something should be; in those cases, I will stick with the given constraints (ie. single font, few shades of gray), b... read more »

• Creating A Custom Show / Hide Directive In AngularJS

  Posted on May 14, 2013 at 10:03 AM

  @Unni, Yes, the callback that you pass to the $watch() method gets the newValue and oldValue passed to it as the first and second arguments, respectively. When you set up a $watch() callback, it will typically fire at least once, the first time with the newValue and oldValue being the same... read more »

• Grouping Nested ngRepeat Lists In AngularJS

  Posted on May 14, 2013 at 9:57 AM

  @Ryan, Unfortunately, my "testing" methods for AngularJS are all manual (ie. I use the app and try to break it). Testing, in general, whether client-side or server-side, is my biggest Achilles heel. I'm a total noob. As for the model-objects, I try to make all the data pass... read more »

• Understanding CSS Transitions And Class Timing

  Posted on May 14, 2013 at 9:49 AM

  @Ashraf, Glad this was helpful. I find the CSS transition stuff a bit confusing. Trying to help clear up some concepts.... read more »

• What If All User Interface (UI) Data Came In Reports?

  Posted on May 14, 2013 at 9:37 AM

  @Jonah, First off, I truly appreciate the responses. I am historically a "procedural" programmer, so the transition (aka, multi-year journey) into something that is more object-oriented has been a long and frustrating one, to say the least. Everything that I say comes from... read more »

• What If All User Interface (UI) Data Came In Reports?

  Posted on May 13, 2013 at 1:07 PM

  @Jonah, I am definitely in the camp that believes that the UI *should* come first, before any coding is done. I think the UI informs the engineering team what functionality is even needed at all (and which is not). That said, the original basis of this blog post was, I believe, in he... read more »

• Nested Views, Routing, And Deep Linking With AngularJS

  Posted on May 13, 2013 at 9:42 AM

  @Zoom, I definitely hope to get some UI-Router time under my belt. They seem to be really building a very robust solution. And now that the beta-branch of AngularJS has animation capabilities, I believe that is all being built into UI-Router. That said, since my example hinges primar... read more »

• Nested Views, Routing, And Deep Linking With AngularJS

  Posted on May 13, 2013 at 9:40 AM

  @Richard, I definitely appreciate the feedback; my use of white-space definitely does not agree with many people (so you are not alone). My problem is that when the code starts to get too tight, I tend to get a little flustered and am not able to concentrate on it. I'm told that a l... read more »

• What If All User Interface (UI) Data Came In Reports?

  Posted on May 13, 2013 at 9:35 AM

  @Jonah, Thanks for the link - I'll take a look. Fowler is definitely someone to pay attention to. And, no doubt, I think about the database too early in my planning. Old habits die hard. But, I think another issue that I have is that I build a lot of prototypes before I really start... read more »

• Delegating Nested Directive Behavior To Parent Directive In AngularJS

  Posted on May 13, 2013 at 9:20 AM

  @John, I'm also having a little bit of trouble following your example; but the idea of having a complex form is definitely something that I had in mind when I was playing with this idea. Some things that come to mind for forms: * Auto-focusing a given form field after the form has be... read more »

• The UX Of Prototyping: Low-Fidelity Is The New High-Fidelity

  Posted on May 13, 2013 at 9:09 AM

  @Lola, That's definitely true; which is all the more reason to strip away more things to "think" about. Less distractions.... read more »

• The UX Of Prototyping: Low-Fidelity Is The New High-Fidelity

  Posted on May 13, 2013 at 9:08 AM

  @Ken, I used to use Symbols all the time in Flash; but have not used them too much in Fireworks. I did dabble a bit, especially with trying to share them across different files, using the Library. But one frustrating thing I found was that if I updated the symbol, I would have to go back i... read more »

• The UX Of Prototyping: Low-Fidelity Is The New High-Fidelity

  Posted on May 10, 2013 at 12:09 PM

  @Jon, Balsamiq is definitely a popular tool. But, for me, Fireworks has a level of efficiency and freedom that I can't get from the off-the-shelf wireframing tools. But, I was very luck - I worked a job years ago where day-one, they said, "Sit down and take 3 days to learn Fireworks -... read more »

• The UX Of Prototyping: Low-Fidelity Is The New High-Fidelity

  Posted on May 10, 2013 at 12:08 PM

  @David, Whoa, didn't mean to misrepresent. Fireworks is the *best web design tool* ever created :D If you need serious photo manipulation and tons of effects, go Photoshop... but for basically everything else web-dev related, Fireworks is where it's at. It's the only graphics tool I use. T... read more »

• The UX Of Prototyping: Low-Fidelity Is The New High-Fidelity

  Posted on May 10, 2013 at 11:19 AM

  @David, Ha ha, I can dig it - probably a good idea :)... read more »

• The UX Of Prototyping: Low-Fidelity Is The New High-Fidelity

  Posted on May 10, 2013 at 11:17 AM

  @David, Yo, I can't tell you how much time I've wasted trying to pick the right shade of blue for an info-box... an embarrassing amount of time. And, I used to get into arguments about whose computer monitor (on the team) was showing the "correct" shade of a selected color. No jo... read more »

• HashKeyCopier - An AngularJS Utility Class For Merging Cached And Live Data

  Posted on May 9, 2013 at 7:20 PM

  @Kevin, As far as exposing the Controller, I think that is how they did it originally (from what I saw in some other videos). I think $scope *used* to point to the controller instance. As for ui-router, I've seen it a bit, but have not been part of the conversation in a long time. I... read more »