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The Angular Mini-Book The Angular Mini-Book is a guide to getting started with Angular. You'll learn how to develop a bare-bones application, test it, and deploy it. Then you'll move on to adding Bootstrap, Angular Material, continuous integration, and authentication.

Spring Boot is a popular framework for building REST APIs. You'll learn how to integrate Angular with Spring Boot and use security best practices like HTTPS and a content security policy.

For book updates, follow @angular_book on Twitter.

The JHipster Mini-Book The JHipster Mini-Book is a guide to getting started with hip technologies today: Angular, Bootstrap, and Spring Boot. All of these frameworks are wrapped up in an easy-to-use project called JHipster.

This book shows you how to build an app with JHipster, and guides you through the plethora of tools, techniques and options you can use. Furthermore, it explains the UI and API building blocks so you understand the underpinnings of your great application.

For book updates, follow @jhipster-book on Twitter.

10+ YEARS


Over 10 years ago, I wrote my first blog post. Since then, I've authored books, had kids, traveled the world, found Trish and blogged about it all.

House Project: Garage has started

New Garage has a floor The Garage crew showed up last week and began working on Saturday. Today they poured concrete - this builder isn't wasting any time! They expect to have our garage done by Christmas. Click on the image to zoom in.

Posted in General at Dec 01 2003, 01:56:24 PM MST

Struts Menu 2.0 Released!

This release is a significant refactoring of the 1.x codebase. The source and site is now built using Maven. Menus can now be defined using Velocity templates and support has been added for looking up dynamic values. This means that if you have ${variableName} in your menu-config.xml (in a link), the tag library will look in all scopes for a variable with the name "variableName". The example app has been updated to improve documentation.

IMO, the Velocity templates is huge because it means "if it's possible with HTML" - it's possible with Struts Menu.

Changes (from http://struts-menu.sourceforge.net/changes-report.html):

- Renamed package structure to net.sf.navigator.
- Added support for using Struts' actions and forwards for links in menu-config.xml.
- Added support for using dynamic variables in menu-config.xml.
- Updated build process to use Maven for building/deploying.
- Refactored to use Velocity and allow dynamic variable substitution.

You can read the nitty-gritty details about the Velocity enhancements, check out the sample app or download this tag library for yourself.

Posted in Java at Dec 01 2003, 04:03:09 AM MST Add a Comment