Month: April 2015

Build your own Twitter – Part 3 – Azure Timeline Service for Node.js

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The last part of this article series described the principles of Twitter-like services based on Azure Storage Tables. This part now describes the structure of a new node module which acts as a timeline service. This service can be used very easily in existing node projects.

To integrate this node module just install the azure-timeline-service via node package manager. This integrates everything that is required automatically:

npm install azure-timeline –save

The module allows to post events to a specific user timeline and the timeline of all followers. The following snip-let illustrates it:

var user = azureTimelineService.createSubject(“<>”, “<>”);

user.postEvent(‘login’, { timestamp: new Date() }).then(function() {
console.log(“DONE”);
});

Every method works asynchronous based on promises. Following another user is as simple as posting an event to a timeline

user.follow(user01).then(function() {
console.log(“DONE”);
})

Following a user means all events this user posts to a timeline will be posted to the followers timeline as well. Last but not least loading a timeline is important. The system returns currently all events from a timeline which is a point of change in the future:

user.loadTimeline().then(function(events) {
console.log(events);
})

All samples are implemented in the sample file of the Azure Timeline project here. Any questions? Feel free to open an issue at GitHub or just stay in touch via this block.

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Azure Cost Monitor for Service Providers & Resellers

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ngHelper-Toolbar: Now supports secondary actions & dividers

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The $toolbar service is a great helper when it comes to building toolbars in AngularJS applications. The new version 0.0.3 allows you to handle new secondary actions, as shown here in the Azure Cost Monitor application:

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The secondary action can be defined in the addItem function similar to all other options the API supports:

$toolbar.addItem(‘childContract, contract, null, null, true, ‘/report/1234’, null, ‘activeContract’, ‘fa-trash’, function () {                   $scope.removeContract(contract);
});

Making the menu more user-friendly can be achieved by adding dividers in the structure. When using the special menu title “DIVIDER” the system will use this in the menu structure as divider:

$toolbar.addItem(‘user.divider’, ‘DIVIDER’, null, null, true, null, null, ‘user’);

The new navigation infrastructure of the Azure Cost Monitor is using the $toolbar service from the ngHelper-Toolbar project. We hope this feature makes it simple to maintain your toolbars. Any questions, wishes or ideas? Try the issue button on the GitHub page or contact the author via this blog.