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.
We arrived back in Denver after an awesome week in Cancun. There's no real good stories to tell, just lots of fun, laughter and relaxation with family. Below are some pictures from our trip, as well as many others on Flickr.
Right before I left last Saturday, I released AppFuse 1.9, then went to watch the Broncos vs. Patriots at Invesco Field. Today, it's the Steelers. It's pretty cool to come home to a town this excited. Go Broncos!!
This will make you have second thoughts about purchasing a MacBook, eh?
..."They can't get enough Core Duo (chips)," said my source. He also said that if he were me, he probably wouldn't order one of the new MacBook Pros. I asked if there would be MacBook replacements for the 17-inch and 12-inch PowerBooks, but he said, "Oh, it's much cooler than that. Much cooler." - Leander Kahney
Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers. I dig it.
Ever since we got our new HP Pavilion, I've been improving it and my "home office" setup as well. First off, I bought 2GB of RAM to boost it up to 3GB. Then I got a DVI KVM Switch, so I could plug Windows and Linux into the same KVM setup. Installing OpenSuse wasn't too hard, but configuring CUPS and Samba and adding a 2nd drive took a bit of wrestling. The best part, however, has been yesterday and today.
Julie got everyone in our families new webcams for Christmas. For the past week or so, we've been trying to get them to work. I've had an iSight for almost a year, and I've never been able to get it to work when talking with my parents. This time was no different, but we did get the Mac working with Yahoo Messenger. This led to getting Yahoo working on my Windows box, but the sound sucked and the video wasn't that good. I couldn't get any other IM clients to work either. Then I remembered Skype and thought "they must have video by now". Sure 'nuff, when I checked a few days ago, they had Skype 2.0 with video support. It worked great right away and I had a great "talk" with my parents last night.
Tonight, I got my sister hooked up on Skype and we talked for a bit. She's currently having lots of computer issues and Skype crashes (and quits working altogether) after working fine for about a minute. My dad had a few issues with his machine too - mainly due to Skype tacking out his 1GHz/1GB machine. Bottom line: Skype with Video works great if you have a new machine with plenty o' memory.
Lastly, I received a TV Tuner tonight from Amazon - thanks to a JavaLobby gift certificate (thanks guys!) Note that you need a card with "MCE" in the model name if you want it to work with Media Center. I plugged it in, configured it, and now I'm watching Law & Order while typing this. I setup Conan to record every night and life is good. It's a pretty cool setup - now I just need a new dual-core Intel-based PowerBook to get the best of everything. 
I totally agree with Dion. For the love of God, pppplllllleeeeeeeaaaaaaasssssseeeee announce Intel-based ass-kicking PowerBooks tomorrow!! I love my PowerBook, but I hate the speed. It's extremely frustrating developing in Java on it, especially when I spend 60% of my time on a dual-core AMD 64. If Apple doesn't announce new PowerBooks tomorrow, it's likely I'll buy a Ferrari instead.
Over the weekend, I learned about J3Unit - a new object oriented JavaScript testing framework.
J3Unit is an object-oriented unit testing framework for JavaScript.
J3Unit runs JavaScript tests directly in the web browser and can be
automated using JUnit and Jetty. J3Unit builds on
previous work by JSUnit and
Script.aculo.us
to provide a better way to automate JavaScript unit tests.
Object-oriented JavaScript unit tests are written using the
Script.aculo.us Test.Unit.Runner object, which is in turn built upon the
prototype JavaScript library.
J3Unit has 3 modes of operation: Static Mode, Local Browser Mode, and Remote
Browser Mode
To me, this looks similar to Selenium. I'd definitely like to explore using this package or Selenium in AppFuse.
Currently, AppFuse uses Canoo WebTest, which is based on HtmlUnit. The current version of HtmlUnit doesn't support Prototype, or any libraries that depend on it. The good news is "This will be quite simple to fix".
In addition to many other java.net projects, the Cenqua guys have been kind enough to add FishEye to both AppFuse and Equinox's CVS repositories. You can now view FishEye goodies using the URLs below:
Later today, I'll see if I can hack java.net's browse CVS page to show FishEye instead of java.net. Thanks Cenqua!
Update: The hack is complete. IE gives a security warning b/c FishEye is only available at http (not https), but it works fine in Firefox. If you'd like to put FishEye into an embedded iframe in your java.net project, here's the JavaScript I used to do it. View source on any of AppFuse's java.net pages for more information. The JavaScript goes in your www/project_tools.html page.
function fisheye() {
if (document.getElementById("browsesource") != null) {
var fisheyeDiv = document.createElement("div");
fisheyeDiv.className="app";
var header = document.createElement("div");
header.className="h2";
header.innerHTML = "<h2>Browse source code with FishEye</h2>";
fisheyeDiv.appendChild(header);
var fisheye = document.createElement("iframe");
fisheye.setAttribute("src", "http://fisheye5.cenqua.com/viewrep/appfuse");
fisheye.setAttribute("border", "0");
fisheye.style.width="99%";
fisheye.style.height="700px";
fisheye.style.border="0";
fisheye.style.marginTop="10px";
fisheye.style.marginLeft="5px";
fisheyeDiv.appendChild(fisheye);
document.getElementById("dirlist").insertBefore(fisheyeDiv, document.getElementById("browsesource"));
}
}
Related: Fixing your java.net project's homepage.
Brett Porter provides a few steps on how you can help improve the Maven repository. My advice? Convert your project to use Maven 2 as an experiment. That's what I did with Equinox 1.5. In the process I found 28 issues with POMs at ibiblio. If you're using Ant, you can use Maven 2's Ant Tasks to download your dependencies w/o going "whole hog" and converting everything to M2.
Yes, this is a somewhat twisted attempt to convince you to endure the same pain I went through. The best and worst part of Maven 2 is its transitive dependencies. If they can all be updated to be accurate by the project owner's - the problem will be solved. But how do you convince project owner's to do that? I wonder how good Ivy's metadata is?
Why is this whole debate important to you? Because Ant 1.7 is (supposedly) going to have a dependency download mechanism. It's likely you'll use it because it is a nice convenience. Steve Loughran is one of Ant's primary developers and he has this to say:
I do find the m2 tasks and repository hard to work with, and am debating a quick investigation of Ivy. Maybe focusing on one thing -library management- has let them do a better job than trying to be all of a next generation build tool.
The "best dependency downloading tool" debate is heating up. I wonder which one will win Ant Developers over? If it's M2, I can see the Apache folks smiling. However, if it's Ivy - at least we'll know it's not a political decision. It's because it simply does a better job. May the best tool win.
NOTE: I've yet to try Ivy, and don't know if I will. Especially now that I've fixed all the POMs I use at ibiblio.