AngularJS

Learning by Doing: Guide to Self-teaching AngularJS

This Guide to Self-teaching AngularJS Trilogy is for a friend who wants to learn AngularJS from zero. The question was, “Which tutorial should I follow?”

None of them.

Reading tutorials and watching videos is passive, therefore rather ineffective and less fun. If you’re a strong self-learner, what you need is not tutorial, but a guide to doing research on your own. Here it is.

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CSS

Flex with Firefox

<div flex="50">
  <p>looooooooooooooong content</p>
</div>

When white-space: nowrap; is used, simply putting overflow: hidden; on <p> is not going to stop it from conquering the parent div and overflowing all over the place. Even if the div has a flex-basis: 50%; to protect itself. That div is going to need a overflow: hidden; too.

Nice job, Firefox 34.0.5.

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Thoughts

Epcot

I just got back from a film called Tomorrowland. I haven’t had this feeling in a long time. The feeling I get when I read Atlas Shrugged. When I read Disney’s biography.

The people.

Nothing fascinates me more than the possibility of future. What would happen? Economically? Socially? Technologically? Future’s good? Brilliant, what can I do to help? It’s bad? Crap, what can I do to help?

And what would I not give to live surrounded by people like Walt. People who draw out their prospects and make them happen. People who are curious about the world and go explore. People who are fascinated by amazing possibilities and then go about creating reality.

Building for a better tomorrow, today.

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