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briantford.com
Personal blog · briantford.com/blogprogrammingweb
briantford.com is a personal blog at briantford.com about programming and web. Since 2012, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Building PhoneGap Apps with AngularJS”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Brian Ford's Angular.js posts on integrating D3 charts, PhoneGap and Yeoman. They are cited as practical how-tos for getting started with Angular and building D3 directives.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Building PhoneGap Apps with AngularJS4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-01-30
- Using D3.js with Angular.js3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-12-06
- AngularJS + Bower: Writing Reusable AngularJS Components with Bower2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-22
What Hacker News says?
D3.js as an Angular directive is a thing of beauty, once you get your D3.js graphics updating live from your Angular data you can do some very nice dynamic graphics with very little code, whether it be graphs or otherwise. Brian Ford gives a nice example in his blog and on GitHub: http://briantford.com/blog/angular-d3.html https://github.com/btford/angular-d3-demo
Comment linking /blog/angular-d3.html
on “xCharts - A D3-Based Library For Building Custom Charts and Graphs”Submitted Building Huuuuuge Apps with AngularJS as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> * https://github.com/tigbro/jquery-mobile-angular-adapter * http://briantford.com/blog/angular-phonegap.html that's what i'm saying i should not need an adapter for these libraries , i dont need them with Ember or Backbone
Comment linking /blog/angular-phonegap.html
on “Ember.js or Angular.js?”Submitted Hacking Core Directives in AngularJS as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> forget any projects that are animation/transition between views heavy, you'll fail Animation is coming to the next version. It's already possible but you have to do it yourself. > doesnt play well with some other frameworks ( requireJS, jQuery mobile , even phonegap ...) * https://github.com/tigbro/jquery-mobile-angular-adapter * http://briantford.com/blog/angular-phonegap.html > is slow when dealing with a lot of…
Comment linking /blog/angular-phonegap.html
on “Ember.js or Angular.js?”Submitted Using D3.js with Angular.js as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou can always make your own d3 directives. Relevant "how-to" blog: http://briantford.com/blog/angular-d3.html
Comment linking /blog/angular-d3.html
on “AngularJS + D3.js = Radian”Submitted AngularJS + Bower: Writing Reusable AngularJS Components with Bower as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe main angularJS site has a good tutorial to get you started. This blog i found helpful when getting started, specially the integration with yeoman: http://briantford.com/blog/angular-yeoman.html . These are video tutorials about angular.js: http://egghead.io/ . The rest is up to you.
Comment linking /blog/angular-yeoman.html
on “Ask HN: Resources to learn Angular JS?”Submitted Stop Whining About New JS Frameworks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing Reusable AngularJS Components with Bower as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building PhoneGap Apps with AngularJS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building PhoneGap Apps with AngularJS as a story · 1 points
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