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This is the second part of a two-part series exploring the use of the Angular 6 HttpClient to make API calls against a Django back-end using Django Rest Framework.

This tutorial will show you some techniques for building a decoupled micro-blogging application using Angular 6 and the Django Rest Framework.

Angular's animation API is quite powerful. It can trigger various special effects when data changes or when an element is added or removed. The effects on adding and removing were useful to me in a recent project, so I thought I would take a closer look.

A look at a few of the game's data structures, and how Angular's HttpClient can make API calls to a Django Rest Framework API in a decoupled application.

A tutorial for upgrading Angular API calls to the new syntax for RxJS 6.

Using open-source map data to calculate the most remote location in a US state.

I have had a few people remark to me their opinion that it's just plain impossible to develop websites on Windows. Then, how have I been doing it for the past ten years?

A tutorial for upgrading Angular API calls in Angular 5.

A collection of examples showing how to use some features of the Drupal 8 Entity API.

Using PuTTY and port forwarding to connect to a remote MS SQL database.

Using the Drupal 8 Migrate framework to migrate data from a JSON file instead of a database.

How to push all branches in a repository to a new remote, even if the old remote is no longer available.

The second part of a series about rewriting the classic game, The Wonderful World of Eamon. Here I show the game’s command prompt and a few handy features in the command UI.

The Apple II is long dead, and playing the original version of the text adventure game Eamon now requires an emulator. What if I could rewrite it for modern computers? A programming adventure using Django and Angular.

Hosting a Django site can be a bit of a puzzle, especially if you're used to PHP and Apache. This article shows how to configure Apache to host a Django site.

Making the Django Router and Angular Router work together in the same project.

Angular's ng-options directive provides a nifty way to build a select element, but its handling of default values is a bit puzzling.

A tutorial describing how to set up two-way binding between the browser's query string parameters and the state of $location.search() in AngularJS

Using the Drupal 8 Migrate framework to migrate Taxonomy vocabularies and terms from a Drupal 7 site into Drupal 8.

Using the Drupal 8 Migrate framework to migrate basic nodes from a Drupal 7 site into Drupal 8.

In this article, we will be building a custom migration which will import users from a Drupal 7 site into a Drupal 8 site.

Getting started with Drupal 8's built-in Migrate framework.

Notable changes from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8