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Microservices are a big buzz word in the technology space, but I feel like its definition changes on who you ask and what time of day it is. If you were to ask me, microservices are just as their name
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By Christopher Britz /
on node, intuit-cad, intuit, CAD, javascript
If you ever had the need to use Intuit's Customer Account Data(CAD) and are using NodeJS we have definitely been in the same boat together. The boat where there is about ten anchors holding you back because Intuit does
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By Christopher Britz /
on angularjs, angular-material, sidenav, side menu
Create an Angular Material style side nave menu. For those like me who want to see the code first, then the code for this can be found in two locations. Github repo found here: Github Angular Material Menu Working Plunker
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By Christopher Britz /
on angularjs, directive, jasmine, testing, isolate scope, linking function
Have you ever wanted to get the scope of a linking function in a directive for testing. Let me rephrase that. Have you ever wanted to test the isolate scope within your directive's linking function? You probably have if your
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After already writing a blog post on installing ghost on Amazon EC2, found here: Installing Ghost on EC2, I found that there is a much easier way now if your running the Amazon Linux image on EC2. Below, is the
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By Christopher Britz /
Why I Wrote This Have you ever wanted to create stunning charts without having to learn the intricacies of D3 and SVG graphics in HTML? After watching endless hours of D3 videos and reading multiple blog posts, documentation, and books
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By Christopher Britz /
on angularjs, nodejs, reCaptcha, captcha
In this Brilliant Britz blog (say that 10 times fast) I will talk about how I embedded a simple captcha widget in my Angular/Node application. This task requires your Angular client and Node server to be changed, as the
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By Christopher Britz /
on angularjs, directive, bootstrap, modal, generic, ui-boostrap
This talk I will walk through creating a modal window that is generic in the sense that it will take any old arbitrary html and stuff it in a modal window that is used throughout your site. This uses the
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By Christopher Britz /
on node, nodejs, bower, npm, npm link, bower link
In this post I will talk about npm link, however, if you just replace npm with bower you will be able to perform the same feature. There is one difference to note though. To have bower link work you must
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By Christopher Britz /
on node, winston, logging, nodejs, log
Winston logger is becoming the defacto way of logging information from NodeJS applications. Mainly because its easy to setup, has all the appenders needed, and can be used in any module you require it in. Ill go over an simple
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By Christopher Britz /
on route53, registrar, domain, nameserver
This is the second part of a three part series. If you would like to view the first part, which shows you how to setup and install the Ghost blogger on an Amazon EC2 instance, navigate yourself to Setting up
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By Christopher Britz /
on route53, godaddy, setup, elastic ip, ghost, blogger, node, install
The task here is to setup an Amazon EC2 instance and run the Ghost blogging application. Basically, I wanted to create this blog, that your viewing now, on Amazon EC2 and use my GoDaddy domain name. This will be a
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