Justin Noel

Shameless Plug : Kids In Touch - Training Wheels for Texting *UPDATE: * You might want to completely ignore this now. AngularJS has improved handling for validation now. Read about it here. I've struggled with validation in AngularJS many times. I just really have a hard

Yesterday, I mentioned I was working on the intro screen / on-boarding process for the Kids In Touch app using the Ionic Framework's SlideBox component. I was sort of stuck because I couldn't keep users from moving on to the next slide even if they

Unfortunately, I'm doing a major revamp of the Kids In Touch before ever even launching it. Sad puppy here. Fortunately, I'm dabbling with the new Ionic Framework from the folks at Drifty. I'm working on the Intro / Onboarding process for the app. It uses

There has been a lot written about code organization in AngularJS. Of course, there are many schools of thought. Here are the best articles I've seen on them: AngularJS Abstractions: Modules Dirty Laundry Lessons Learned All of those have some great ideas for structuring

So, before you're allowed to read this, you must signup for the Kids In Touch launch notification. Go ahead... I'll wait. Great! You're back. This is a complete departure from my normal tech ramblings. I thought I'd share a little dieting tool I've been

For the last few days, I've been working on an API for Kids In Touch using Hapi.js from the folks at Walmart Labs. I'm pretty impressed with it so far. I have found it to be much easier to adapt that Express. Hapi

Prelude : I'm not bashing the Express.js framework here. It was developed by people WAY beyond my skillset. I'm just saying it wasn't for me for various reasons. I've been working on a very simple REST API for Kids In Touch. I'm trying to

I'm still chugging along on Kids In Touch. Right now, I'm dealing with sending out account verifications. In a simple LAMP stack, this would be pretty easy for me. With Node.js, it's significantly more complicated. Dealing with asynchronous code in JavaScript just kills

I'm pretty much a Node.js beginner and an Express newbie. I've been spending the last few days reading tutorials on Express and Node.js development. Today, I came across some tutorials by Azat Mardanov. They were very informative and seemed well written. So,

Accessing the database in an application can be one of the least performant operations for the entire application. If the DB sends back gobs of unneeded structural data, it gets even worse. All of that unused meta data just slows the response and compounds

So, I used Google Hangouts for the first time today. I was using it to get some training from another developer via AirPair. Ugh. I hate Google Hangouts now. Why? Software. Installing Google Hangouts via a "package" - you know it's gonna

While working on Kids In Touch, I've picked up a little bit of MongoDB knowledge from working with Kinvey's collectionAccess module. However, I never really knew exactly what I was doing or how to design the schema within the Kinvey Console. Generally, Kinvey steers

Right now, the Kinvey documentation does not show how to run 'Compound Queries with Joining Operators' in the REST API docs or the Business Logic docs. There is however an example in the HTML API docs. Because the Kinvey BaaS uses MongoDB, I went

Kinvey's BaaS currently doesn't support partial entity updates. So, if you want to update an entity in the MongoDB, you have to do the following: Find the entity by some property Update that entity's copy Save the updated entity copy It's really not too

I noticed this bug in the Kinvey Console many months ago, but I never bothered letting Kinvey know about it. Now, in the new Community Support forums, someone has posted a question that might be what I will demonstrate below. He's suggesting the columns

Kinvey doesn't currently support backend cron like functionality. So, I'm rolling my own. Normally, I'd use a LAMP stack to do this. However, since I'm going all in with AngularjS, I thought I'd use nodejs for this as well. Let's just say my JavaScript

I'm using Kinvey as a BaaS (Backend As A Service) for my upcoming app, Kids In Touch. When a user sends an invitation request to a friend, my Kinvey Business Logic onPreSave event needs to validate the invitee's mobile phone number. Well, the code

UPDATE : I've found a solution! See bottom of post or continue reading if you like to hear me whine! UPDATE 2 : This doesn't actually work..... I've written before (here and here about how I hate that AngularJS hijacks forms. Yes, I whine a lot.

UPDATE : This is "fixed". See the bottom of the post. So, I'm working on the Kids In Touch app and getting killed by forms in iOS 7. Unfortunately, iOS 7 handles forms very differently than in iOS 6. In fact, a form

Developing HTML5/CSS3 and PhoneGap based iOS apps just got much easier thanks to Thibaut Courouble from CSSFlow. This means my upcoming Kids In Touch app is going to look great. I'm proud to announce that Calendee has funded the development of CSSFlow’s

I subscribe to the "End to End Web Developers" group on LinkedIn. Today, someone posted a question "Is Parse a Secure Solution". I typed up a nice long response in my Sublime Text editor and pasted it into the response

######UPDATE : [See this solution](http://calendee.com/preventing-angularjs-from-hijacking-forms/#update). It seems that every time I use a form and AngularJS, I end up going insane. Admittedly, most of this is due to my : Non-exceptional JavaScript skills My non-exceptional knowledge of AngularJS However, sometimes, I

I've been planning on using Kinvey as the backend for my upcoming Kids In Touch app. Today, I finally got to the point of beginning integration with the client to the backend. During some initial testing, I could not figure out how to integrate

Yesterday, I attended a conference at the Eisemann Center in Richardson, Texas. The conference was not related to technology at all. As I am habitually early, I was sitting in my seat reading some AngularJS documentation on my iPad. A man sat next to

I struggle with AngularJS's form validation. It is quite powerful but also pretty confusing for me. My biggest problem is that by default most examples show all errors on the page as soon as the user starts typing. As a user, that is scary