Better Date Input
JSCalendar is my pop-up calendar of choice these days, but I have to admit this better date input demo is very cool. It'd be sweet if you could combine the two. Hat tip to fiftyfoureleven.com.
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 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.
RECENT ENTRIES
- Life Update: New Job, Same House, and Same Awesome Family!
- Happy Birthday, Abbie!
- Happy Birthday, Jack!
- Farewell to the 2023-2024 Ski Season
- My Marvelous Road Trip to the Utah JUG
- A Delightful Trip to Devnexus
- Funemployment 2024
- 20 years ago today, I bought a VW Bus
- 2023 - A Year in Review
- Goodbye, DU House. Thanks for all the memories!
Why Wicket looks cool
I like the looks of Wicket for a couple of reasons - without even using the framework yet.
- Its project homepage looks good. If you're using a Java web framework, chances are you're developing UIs too. If you don't know how to make sites look good - it's time to find a new line of work IMO. Of course, learning how to make good-looking UIs is another option.
- Its Wicket Stuff project. It provides Hibernate, fValidate and Spring integration. It also appears to provide an option to use Velocity for your templates. I'm not sure what the Velocity integration provides - since HTML templates (ala Tapestry) should do everything that's needed.
What I don't like about the project:
- The Buzz page has a quote that's (apparently) from this site. Unfortunately, it looks like I said it - which I didn't.
- There's no books being written about it. If it's really that good - where's the books? Ruby on Rails will have 3 by the end of this year. Any good framework should inspire books to be written about it.
- The Wicket Stuff project has no documentation. Javadocs don't cut it. Tutorials are king.
I hope this project succeeds - Tapestry needs some competition and I don't think JSF is providing it. If JSF adds HTML Templates (or I figure out how to use Java Studio Creator to manage an AppFuse+JSF project), that's a different story.