Archives for the Month of May, 2013

AngularJS and IE8, directive that compiles HTML

[wp_ad_camp_1] I have a directive that loads an article in HTML from a CMS via a REST API and a template file what should be compiled together with the article. element.html(templateLoaded.data); scope.document = theLoadedArticle; $compile(element.contents())(scope); This worked in most browsers except our old “friend” Internet Explorer 8. The reason is I have another directive in […]

WordPress, Drupal or Roll Your Own?

When should you use existing CMSs as WordPress or Drupal and when should you build one yourself? Of course, building a CMS from scratch would be insane but with emerging technologies and standards such as git (for version control), Markdown (for editing), Neo4J (for metadata) and Solr or ElasticSearch for indexing the data, you can […]