Kevin James

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• Directive Controller And Link Timing In AngularJS

  Posted on Apr 6, 2014 at 7:23 PM

  Bummer.. my Markdown foo is lacking apparently.... read more »

• Directive Controller And Link Timing In AngularJS

  Posted on Apr 6, 2014 at 7:21 PM

  This is great as usual Ben, code exploration is a blast and I'm glad you manage to find the time to do it; gives me something to look forward to reading. I'd like to mention that there are actually two linking phases, pre and post. The part you've hooked into here is the post-linking phase (ng's def... read more »

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

  Posted on May 9, 2013 at 5:25 PM

  @Ben, the ngAnimate video on YouTube was excellent, good find! I fumbled around with some animation ideas a while back but came out of it feeling like I got an ng-beatdown.. so yeah, I'm glad it's making its way into the core hah. Regarding Controller exposure I believe you are correct. If the met... read more »

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

  Posted on May 8, 2013 at 3:37 PM

  @Ben, I experiment with both the stable / unstable releases, my bad for not making note of this. The three things I'm looking forward to are Scope#$watchCollection (which has been incorporated into ngRepeat), ngAnimate, and the ability to publish a controller instance to a scope. It's easy... read more »

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

  Posted on May 8, 2013 at 1:21 PM

  Ben, AngularJS 1.1.4 has expanded the repeat expression to include a "track by" expression - http://code.angularjs.org/1.1.4/docs/api/ng.directive:ngRepeat. I've updated your example to use the track by expression in place of the HashKeyCopier if you care to check it out - http://plnkr... read more »