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  • AngularJS Material Design Tabs, Forms & Toasts
  • MEAN Stack – Save data with an AngularJS Modal – Day 22
  • MEAN Stack – Deploy to Heroku – Day 30(i)
  • AngularJS + Nodemailer Contact Form
  • MEAN Stack – Create Customer AngularJS Modal – Day 25
  • Design your Web Apps with Bootstrap Wireframes
  • Get AngularJS Batarang Working in Chrome
  • Do you know what day it is? It’s #nodebotsday!
  • MEAN Stack: Create an AngularJS Directive with Yeoman
  • MEAN Stack – Style the Create Customer Page – Day 13
  • MEAN Stack – Deploy to Nodejitsu
  • MEAN Stack – Express.js & Client-side Assets – Day 29
  • MEAN Stack – Intro to Bootstrap Buttons, Glyphicons, Navbar – Day 3
  • When new technology is already obsolete
  • MEAN Stack – Answering Q’s with CSS & AngularJS directives – Day 28
  • Designing a new web app from scratch
  • MEAN Stack v.s Meteor – Similar but Different
  • Functional Interaction Design – Part 6
  • AngularJS Material Design Autocomplete
  • Business Processes and Workflows – Part 2
MEAN Stack – Style the Create Customer Page – Day 13

MEAN Stack – Style the Create Customer Page – Day 13

September 15, 2014 by bossable

In this video we continue styling the Create Customer Page and look at some Angular functionality. We also create our first Customer Record.

We look at:
– Using CSS to style the Create Customer Page
– Create a new Customers CSS File
– Increase the size of the User Glyphicon
– Align the Referred Checkbox to the left using CSS
– Use ng-class to dynamically change the colour of the User Glyphicon based on the Referred checkbox
– Check if we can create a Customer Record without logging in
– Log into the App so that we can use the Customers Menu
– Create our first Customer record
– Look at how $location can be used to route a user to a new view

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MEAN Stack – Customer Search using AngularJS Filters – Day 18

MEAN Stack – Customer Search using AngularJS Filters – Day 18

September 20, 2014 by bossable

In this video we’ll add a search input and new customer button to our List Customers Page. We’ll also use AngularJS Filters to connect our search input to our list of customers, to let us filter through our list of customers.

We look at:
– Continuing to set up the List Customers Page
– Determining the grid layout for mobile vs. larger devices
– Using col-xs and col-sm to change grid sizes based on device size
– Finding and using Bootstrap classes for input-groups for our search bar
– Adjusting the size of input-groups and buttons to align to the wireframe
– Connecting the search input to the list of customers
– Finding Angular Filter documentation on the AngularJS website
– Using Angular Filter syntax to add filtering functionality to our app
– Adding place-holder text to our Search input

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Material Design Web App Thinking + MeteorJS & AngularJS 2

Material Design Web App Thinking + MeteorJS & AngularJS 2

April 15, 2015 by bossable

We go behind the scenes with early designs for a Material Design Web App that I’m working on, and some insight into the types of things that designers need to consider for UX that is created for a specific audience.

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MEAN Stack – AngularJS Notification Service – Day 27

MEAN Stack – AngularJS Notification Service – Day 27

September 29, 2014 by bossable

In this video we’ll create our own notification service using an AngularJS Factory with publication and subscription methods. We’ll use this service to send messages between our Create Customer Modal, and our Customer List to refresh the list when a new customer is created.

We look at:
– Creating a new AngularJS notification Factory Service
– Setting up functionality within the Service to send a message and data
– Setting up functionality with the Service to receive a message and data
– Hooking up our Create Customer Controller with the new notification service
– Using the new notification service to send data when a new customer is created
– Hooking up our Customer List directive with the new notification service to update the list when a new customer is created
– Creating a new customer to test out our new Service

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Set up a free MongoDB database using Compose.io

Set up a free MongoDB database using Compose.io

January 11, 2015 by bossable

Wondering how to set up a free MongoDB database online? This video goes through the quick steps to show you how to set up a Free MongoDB sandbox database using www.compose.io.

You’ll have your database ready in a couple of minutes!

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MEAN Stack – Social Accounts to Sign-in with Facebook – Day 5

MEAN Stack – Social Accounts to Sign-in with Facebook – Day 5

September 7, 2014 by bossable

We’re ready to move onto the Login Page! In this video we’ll look at the MEAN Stack App Login Page, and look at how to set up a MEAN App with Passport.js Facebook authentication.

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MEAN Stack – AngularJS Models in Bootstrap Forms – Day 12

MEAN Stack – AngularJS Models in Bootstrap Forms – Day 12

September 14, 2014 by bossable

In this video we’ll take the changes that we’ve made to the Angular Customers controller, and start mapping the Angular Model to the Create Customer Page. We also begin to style our Create Customer Page based on our Wireframes.

We look at:
– The Yo generated Create Customer Page, and how we find it using the Angular Routes
– Why the page wouldn’t work because we removed the ‘name’ field from our Schema
– Identify the required bootstrap grid based on our wireframes
– Begin to style the Create Customer Page based on our wireframes
– Some tips and tricks on styling Bootstrap for mobile devices
– We map the Angular customer model to our inputs

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MEAN Stack – Save data with an AngularJS Modal – Day 22

MEAN Stack – Save data with an AngularJS Modal – Day 22

September 24, 2014 by bossable

In this video we’ll continue setting up our Update Customer Modal instance using Angular UI. We’ll focus on the buttons within the Modal to trigger the update function, save the data and close the Modal window, or cancel out of the Modal window.

We look at:
– A recap of our Angular UI Customer Update Modal
– Locating the ‘ok’ and ‘cancel’ functions from the Angular UI documentation
– Adding the ‘ok’ and ‘cancel’ functions to the Update Modal instance
– Aligning our button details to our wireframes
– Adding the update function to the Customers Update Controller
– Adding a reference to the update function from the Update Modal
– Testing out our Model by updating customer details

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MEAN.js Transition to 0.4 – Part 2

MEAN.js Transition to 0.4 – Part 2

February 8, 2015 by bossable

In this video, we’ll take the app that we prepared as part of the 30 day mean stack app challenge, and move the customer module files across into the new 0.4 app structure.

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MEAN Stack – Deploy to Digital Ocean

MEAN Stack – Deploy to Digital Ocean

October 8, 2014 by bossable

In this video we’ll deploy our app to DigitalOcean.
For a free $10 Credit – use my referral ID: 3077d5b2118a www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=3077d5b2118a

We look at:
– The quick steps to create a new Digital Ocean account
– Downloading PuTTY if you’re using a Windows machine
– Creating SSH keys using PuTTYgen
– Adding SSH keys to Digital Ocean
– Creating a new Node.js Droplet
– Using PuTTY to connect to our new Droplet
– Checking the Node.js version of our Droplet
– Push our app up quickly to Bitbucket or GitHub
– Copy the SSH/HTTPS link for our Bitbucket project
– Install Git on our Droplet
– Create a copy of the app on our Droplet using Git and Bitbucket
– CD into the folder for the new app
– Npm install
– Bower install
– Grunt install
– Run our app using Grunt
– Connecting and opening up our app

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MEAN Stack – Responsive Bootstrap Login Forms – Day 6

MEAN Stack – Responsive Bootstrap Login Forms – Day 6

September 8, 2014 by bossable

In this video we’ll look at changing the MEAN App Login Page, and start to get it to look like our Login page Wireframe.
We look at:
– The MEAN Stack Sign-in page
– The process for changing the details on the sign-in page
– Introduction to Bootstrap Input Groups
– Introduction to Bootstrap Form Groups and Button layouts

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MEAN Stack – Pass Customer Details to an AngularJS UI Modal – Day 20

MEAN Stack – Pass Customer Details to an AngularJS UI Modal – Day 20

September 22, 2014 by bossable

In this video we’ll continue setting up our Update Customer Modal instance and controller so that we can select a customer record and pop open the Modal. We’ll also do a quick test to see if we can send the details of a selected customer and display the details on the Update Customer Modal.

We look at:
– A recap of adding Angular UI model code back in our app to create an Update Customer Modal
– Setting up our Modal Instance and Controller
– How we pass a selected customer’s details through to our Modal
– How we choose the template that we want to use (to display the html layout) within our Modal
– Selecting pieces of Angular UI example code to set up our Modal controller instance
– Testing to see if our Modal works by hooking it into an ng-click directive
– Passing through the details of a selected customer to the Update Modal

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