In this post I will discuss how to create a simple pie chart using 3 popular libraries: D3, Google charts and Infographic Charts library. I will be looking at the pros and cons for pie chart created with each library. We will try to use the libraries such that the end result looks as similar...
Planetarium CSS solar system animated with CSS animations
In this post I will show you how to create a so called planetarium CSS solar system. Basically I will use CSS animations to animate a representation of our solar system. Actually I will only represent the movement of the Moon around the Earth, the rotation of the Earth around its own axis and the revolution...
Advanced Angular JS animation examples – Part 2
So, in Angular JS animation examples part 1 we saw how to setup everything needed for Angular JS animations. We also saw a few simple examples of how Angular JS animations work. In this tutorial we will build on top of the previous examples and see some more advanced AngularJS animation examples. Showing and hiding elements...
New this week: Facebook 360 Photos, Liferay 7, PlayStation 4k Neo
I’m starting a new type of post with tech news of the past week. I will try to make it a weekly thing just to give you an idea of what happens on the tech stage. I will for sure miss on things, but I will at least catch main tech events. Facebook 360 Photos...
AngularJS animation examples Part 1
Web apps look better with animations. If you want to start off quickly with simple animation just read my 5 min tutorial on CSS animations. In real life however you will probably have to integrate animations in applications a bit more complex like for example an Angular JS application. In this post I will try to...
How Social Media Impacts SEO – Google Ranking Social Signals
Any idea how social media impacts SEO and a website’s Google ranking? Are Google search rankings influenced by social signals? Every once in a while you get these debates online regarding Google search rankings and how social media affects SEO. As for everything there are enough people to say one thing and the opposite. What...
Cure writer’s block with Google search history as a blogging tool
Hey fellow blogger, have you ever had writers block? I’m often confronted with this because either I have too many ideas and get lost when trying to focus on one, or simply put when I have the time to write a post my mind is blocked and have no clue what to write about. Just...
5 min CSS animation beginner tutorial
In this short post I would like to show you how to create CSS3 animations. For this I will assume that you have some basic knowledge about HTML and CSS. This should not take more than 5 minutes to read and after reading it you should know almost everything you need for creating your own CSS animations....
Free online mobile app builder from Ionic
Ionic recently announced that they rolled out Ionic Creator – an online mobile app builder tool which allows you to build mobile apps using drag and drop. The tool is free and the result can be downloaded as a zip file containing the Ionic project, you can use it as a startup template for your...
ApacheDS LDAP authentication, stay away
While developing a relatively large application, we required a single sign-on authentication. After a brief investigation about what open source solutions there are we decided that we go for the ApacheDS LDAP authentication. I don’t usually do this, I’m not hater, but take this warning from me: stay away from ApacheDS! ApacheDS LDAP What is ApacheDS?...