Working with Same-Origin Policy Restrictions
03/25/15
The Same-Origin Policy (SOP) is a security model that almost everyone gets in touch with when developing websites or web... Read more
Posts by Ben Ripkens
5 Ways to Write Better Angular Services
03/23/15
Angular services are singleton objects that can be used to organize and share code. Services are typically used to interact... Read more
What are Angular HTTP interceptors anyway?
03/18/15
Sometimes it takes more time or words to describe a concept in natural language, than to express it in code.... Read more
Cancelable Asynchronous Operations with Promises in JavaScript
03/11/15
Last week my colleague Bastian Krol put up an interesting question on Twitter about JavaScript Promises and the ability to... Read more
Ionic: An AngularJS based framework on the rise
11/28/14
Ionic is one of those frameworks that you hear about from time to time. It is barely a year old... Read more
Testing JavaScript on various platforms with Karma and SauceLabs
11/05/14
The web can be a brutal environment with various combinations of browsers and operating systems (platforms). It is quite likely... Read more
Docker simplified: Run Redis, MongoDB and more with a few keystrokes
08/04/14
You probably know this situation: To develop a piece of software, other services like databases and messaging systems are required.... Read more
Project Nashorn – JavaScript on the JVM
06/30/14
Suppose you have a password strength checker in your user interface to help users choose secure and easily remembered passwords.... Read more
JSON Schema and Schema Validation in Clojure
01/07/14
You have probably heard of and may even have used XML Schema or Document Type Definitions to describe the structure... Read more
codemotion Berlin 2013 technology lab: The aftermath
05/15/13
Two days ago, at the codemotion Berlin 2013, we, i.e. Michael Lex and Ben Ripkens, gave a technology lab. We... Read more
Quick tip: automatically applying Liquibase changesets to HSQL
04/05/13
This is a quick tip for usage of Liquibase with HSQL. You may use the former tool for relational database... Read more
SPA example application with AngularJS and requireJS as a comparison to the ROCA Spring variant
03/18/13
About three weeks ago, Tobias Flohre published his blog post about a real ROCA application. He has shown that a... Read more
Functional JavaScript using Lo-Dash, an underscore.js alternative
01/07/13
Functional programming concepts and functional programming itself are currently all over the news. Languages such as Clojure are leading the... Read more
JavaScript Function Contexts and the Meaning of This
11/29/12
Many languages have an implicitly declared identifier called this. In languages like Java or C#, this commonly refers to a... Read more