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.
My flight leaves Denver around 3:00 and is supposed to arrive at SFO at 7:15. If I'm good, I can grab a taxi and make it to Moscone before registration closes at 8. I doubt it, but it's worth a try. If it's closed, I'll head to my hotel and try to hook up with Bruce, Bill or Simon. Leave a comment or shoot me an e-mail if you are around and want to hook up tonight.
Igor Polyakov is the winner of the AppFuse Logo Contest! I didn't get many votes from the mailing list - but of the 7 votes I received, 5 were for Igor's logo. Since it was my favorite too - I can't complain. Congratulations Igor - we dig your design!
I have a feeling that Maven and I will never quite get along. I live on the bleeding edge, because you have to if you want to keep up with open source. I'm using Hibernate, Spring and JSTL in my Maven sample app. Hibernate is pretty up to date - ibiblio has 2.1.3 and 2.1.4 is the latest. Spring's JARs aren't too bad - 1.0.1 vs. 1.0.2 being the latest release. So much for getting spring-mock.jar quick and easy - since it's part of 1.0.2. JSTL is one version behind too.
Lesson learned: if you want to stay on the bleeding edge, don't use Maven. I suppose another option is to become the guy who uploads these new versions. That job looks rather complicated though. I'm guessing that most folks are simply maintaining their own repositories (or staying away from the bleeding edge).
One of Maven's best features is its ability to generate websites with project documentation. In most cases, it'll motivate developers to improve the documentation for their project. At least it has for me with Struts Menu. However, Maven makes the worst mistake in the history of web development - it doesn't set a default background color. A lot of idiots do this these days, so do me a favor folks - change the default background color on your browser to something obnoxious. Mine is set to bright orange right now. Try changing yours to orange and then visiting the Maven site - its fugly.
This issue isn't as bad as it used to be. Most people don't notice it, but "back in the day" when browser's used gray as their default - it was an issue. Maybe I'm just old fashioned.
Anyway, back to Maven. Yesterday, I was responsible for upgrading some Maven sample apps to the latest RC3, which makes the mistake mentioned above (RC1 did not). Usually when you encounter these issues in Mavenland, you click 5 times (Google with Firefox makes it 1 click) to find the plugins site and then look for its properties. In this case it's xdoc, which has a horrendous number of UI Color Settings.
These settings have two major problems. First of all, they don't work with RC3, and secondly - it's an awful way to define the colors and such for your site. Especially since its mostly related to colors. A better way that I've found is to put a maven-theme.css file in your xdocs/stylesheets directory. This will override Maven's default stylesheet and you get a lot more control over the look and feel of your Mavenized project site. The easiest way to get a template to start with is to generate your site and then copy target/docs/style/maven-theme.css into this directory. Hope this helps make Maven a little bit easier. 
Today was a great first day on the new job. I rode my bike in - which took about an hour - and arrived around 10:00. The commute is beautiful - mostly on a bike path, and mostly along a river. It's too bad I won't be doing it more (I'll likely be working from home a lot). Most of the day was spent exploring Blue Glue, source code and the sample apps. I found out that Blue Glue (which is basically a development environment installer and configurer) on Windows has gotten much better since Out-of-the-Box 2.x. Now it skips most of the Windows installers and everything is installed through OpenLogic's Swing app. It was a fun day talking about open source and how things integrate together. I'm not used to talking with folks about my open source experiences and enthusiasm - so it was a nice change.
The best part was when I received my assignment for the next couple of days: upgrade the Maven sample apps to the latest version and enhance one to include build/deployment examples. I'm also responsible for writing documentation on the sample apps for developers who use them. While I'm not a huge Maven fan, I know that some people like it and it'll be cool to create a "how to" for those folks. On the ride home, I realized that I'm really enjoying what I do right now. I'm basically developing and writing for developers. I have no "business" clients per se - most are developers: both with Spring Live and Blue Glue. The downside is that developers tend to be a pretty smart lot - and if I screw up - they'll let me know about it. Oh well, open source rocks - it's cool to be working with it full time.
The worst part of the day was coming home to over 1000 e-mails - from not checking my e-mail all day. I've got a major spam problem since about 200 of those are from mailing lists and I was only interested in 20-30 beyond that. I'm thinking of changing my e-mail address. Rather than adding more junk filters - I need to eliminate the sheer volume - it's choking both Mail.app and Outlook - and I have a 2 MB connection!
I'm pumped - tomorrow is not only my first day, but it's also Bike to Work Day 2004. I hope it's only 1 hour from my house, but I'll probably get lost and it'll take 2. There's nothing like starting the day on a bike with an iPod.
I figured the OpenLogic guys might've botten blueglue.com. However, when I tried it - I got something much better - check it out yourself.
Java One Blogger Meetup on Monday. Be there or be square. I'll be around Sunday night if anyone wants to do a little pre-party before Monday. My goals for the week are to attend at least 5 sessions and meet some folks that I've never meet before. Who's bringing the chasers? ;-)
EJB Solutions has changed their name to Open Logic and Out-of-the-Box has become Blue Glue. Why do I care? Because I start working for them (as a contractor) tomorrow! It'll be cool to work for a company that's just changed their whole website and released a new version of their product. Sounds like my kind of environment. It's kinda strange that their press releases have next Monday on them - I guess to coincide with JavaOne?
Happy Father's Day to all the Dads out there. I'd particularly like to recognize Dave, Lance and Russ. All were Dads when I met them through this blogging medium, and its great to see they continue to produce content and more children. Russ - is there going to be a #2?
Below is a recent picture of Abbie - I sure am a proud Papa!
Of course, I'd also like to recognize my own Dad - who continues to amaze me with his knowledge of history and his perception on life. Our trip back from San Diego was a blast and I can't wait until he (and the rest of my family) comes out to Denver for my birthday next month. Thanks for being such a great friend and father Pappy.
