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<?php

/**
 *  Sorts an array based on matching multiple criteria.
 *  Given
 *  $array => ['big cat', 'small dog', 'big dog', 'small cat']
 *  $criteira =>[['dog','cat'], ['big','small']]
 *
 *  Results: (biggest to smallest)

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/**
 * xg-bootstrap.js
 *
 * Injects an Angular module into the DOM asynchronously and returns a promise
 * to resolve when the injection is complete.
 */
define(['angular'], function(angular) {
    return function(app, appEl, $selector){
        var d;
        angular.injector(['ng']).invoke(['$q', function($q){

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Leverage Angular without Starting from Scratch

There are days in a life that emerge as stand outs amongst the rest. Some of those days are expected; a wedding perhaps or the birth of a child. Others happen without fanfare. The day I found Angular was one of those days.

I was in the midst of working on the Arch LMS. It had become laborious. The UI I had envisioned was becoming a mess of ajax calls glued together with jQuery. It worked, but it was fragile. That wasn't really jQuery's fault. I used it for something it wasn't meant to do and tracking all those events was impossible.

Seeking something else, I found myself watching a presentation on Knockout. Not bad. It did lead me to Underscore.js, but for some reason it wasn't clicking for me. Perhaps if I'd given it more time. Still, I thought there had to be a better way. Then I fou