By default, Chrome is set as the test runner of choice for applications generated with Angular-cli. The problem is that Chrome is really slow for running more than a few tests. For anyone who develops following the Test Driven Development(TDD) approach like myself, this can be extremely annoying. If you have anything more than a few test cases, you could pretty much drink … [Read more...] about Testing Angular 2 Applications with PhantomJS | ES2015, TypeScript
How to Install PhantomJS 2.5 Beta on Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 LTS
PhantomJS is a quick, excellent alternative to native browser testing for both e2e testing with selenium and JavaScript unit testing with Karma. The beta version, PhantomJS 2.5 offers support for ES2015 unlike the current stable branch (at the time of writing this article 2.1.x). Download PhantomJS 2.5 for Ubuntu At the time of writing this article, the following versions are … [Read more...] about How to Install PhantomJS 2.5 Beta on Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 LTS
New Updates and Content Coming Soon
Time is flying and it has been a while since I have posted any new content. My focus over the past couple of years has dramatically changed focus on to several new technologies. Some of the new content offerings I plan on delivering over the next few months and into the future: Front-End Development(Javascript, jQuery, Angular (1, 2), Typescript, testing (examples and … [Read more...] about New Updates and Content Coming Soon
Calculate Business Days in VBA Without Table
Recently, I was working on a side project that did some cool things with business days. In one of the use cases, I needed to figure out the date five business days from the current date. My solution needed to be built for technical staff to easily modify exclusion dates. My solution also had to be something that could be set once and forgotten as the end-user pool is expected … [Read more...] about Calculate Business Days in VBA Without Table
Convert wp_list_comments to Use Bootstrap Media Object in Sage
Twitter Bootstrap is an excellent framework to build blogs, sites, apps, etc... This example was written for the Sage Wordpress Bootstrap framework by roots http://roots.io/sage. If you are looking for a platform agnostic version, I have included a snippet that should work at the bottom of this page. For reference, documentation for the Media Object Component can be found … [Read more...] about Convert wp_list_comments to Use Bootstrap Media Object in Sage