Cooking dinner in the Raible household
PowerBook for recipe, beer for motivation.
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
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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
Sports, Sports, Sports
I've had quite a ride these last couple of days. I started my new project yesterday, and spent the evening at the Monday Night Football game at Mile High Stadium. A buddy and I had great seats thanks to another friend's season tickets - 6th row, 45 yard line. It was awesome - too bad The Broncos lost (24-23) - but at least it was a good game. Tonight, my companion from last night got (free) club-level seats to see The Colorado Avalanche at The Pepsi Center. It was another great game - went into overtime and resulted in a 4-4 tie. Professional sporting events sure are a good time...
Damn Again
I just started at my new gig today and I mentioned to my boss about the great conference next weekend: No Fluff Just Stuff. 10 minutes later we were talking about what days I needed off next week for our family trip to Missouri. And then it hit me - I booked two things on the same fricken' weekend! No Fluff, Just Stuff is next weekend and I'll be out of town. I've paid for both, and I can't cancel on family - so it looks like I'll have to (try to) cancel my attendance at NFJS. Damn - I'm never going to make it to this thing. I tried back in May and had no luck then either. I guess the whole "weekend conference thing" just doesn't work for me...
Pictures from Halloween and Abbie's Birthday Party
What a great weekend. On Friday afternoon, we took Abbie to the Denver Children's Museum for some trick-or-treating. Checkout the pictures of our little Winnie the Pooh. On Saturday, we had a Birthday Party (1st one!) for Abbie - and here's more pictures for your viewing pleasure.
New Tomcat Releases: 4.1.29 and 5.0.14 Beta
I know these have already been announced on javablogs.com, but no insight was given - so here's some lovin'. 4.1.29 seems to be merely an upgrade to DBCP 1.1 - which is great AFAIK because the "kill abandoned connections" hasn't been working for me. Hopefully DBCP 1.1 fixes this. Unfortunately, I'm running 5.0.12 on this site (where I'm still having connection issues) and the 5.0.14 release seems to only have DBCP 1.0. Oh well, maybe they'll upgrade to 1.1 in the next release. I'll still upgrade this site to 5.0.14 - maybe sometime this weekend.
Later: I upgraded this site to 5.0.14 and it does appear to have DBCP 1.1. Also, the abandoned connection timeout might actually work - or at least it's doing some logging - as indicated by the following message:
AbandonedObjectPool is used (org.apache.commons.dbcp.AbandonedObjectPool@1077fc9) LogAbandoned: true RemoveAbandoned: true RemoveAbandonedTimeout: 60
The Last Day
Today is my last day at my current contract - my new contract starts on Monday. This has to be one of my best "last days" in quite some time. I gave my notice a month ago, and everyone has been super nice ever since. To show you why I think it's a good day, let's review some other last days I've had:
- [Highschool] Fired from McDonalds after 1 1/2 years for calling in sick and going to a basketball game (a co-worker saw me and reported me).
- [Real World] Gave two weeks notice (contract was ending as well). Escorted out of building two days before my last day for telling head honcho of Marketing that I'd be available to do work after my contract ended. I was advised to do this by the webmaster (who was a contractor). Apparently, this was a violation of my contract with IBM and the VP immediately told my boss I'd sent the e-mail. Started new job at eDeploy the next day.
- [Real World] After three rounds of layoffs, the CEO announced that we'd be closing the doors. Started drinking at noon, found contract two weeks later. This led to full time work through Raible Designs.
- [Real World] We were told we needed to re-estimate the project since we were over budget. They told us to take a week off while they figured out some budget stuff - when we came back, they told us we had one week left. Javadocs and knowledge transfer all week. Didn't find new gig for 2 months.
- [Real World] We had nothing to do for the last two months of the project - finally found out ending date. Quit one week early to do a small side project.
Any good last day stories out there?
Hibernate 2.1 Beta 5 Released!
Normally I wouldn't announce a Hibernate beta release (since it is a beta and I'm not currently using it), but there's a bunch of bug fixes (see release notes) that folks might be able to use. You can also download this bad-boy if you so desire.
On a side note ~ I find it amusing how my real-world projects influence my open source contributions. I don't follow Hibernate much because I don't use it day to day. On my last few projects, I've used it a lot. When I've used it, I've also used AppFuse, and therefore - I tend to contribute the AppFuse's development more. Same goes for the displaytag - which I haven't used in a project in several months - hence, no code commits from me. The good news is that on my current project, I have been using Struts Menu a LOT and I've committed some wicked new stuff to CVS. I'm busy writing documentation on it now so it will be easier to use for all. Maybe I'll try to convince my next project to use Roller for Project Status Reports...
Rsync Bookmarks
Chris has a couple of nice links about Rsync. I've been looking to use rsync to backup my iTunes Library on my Linux box in case my laptop dies. Hopefully these links will serve as nice bookmarks when I finally get around to doing this.
Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Linux and Rsync - You know you need it. (Also see OSX-specific tasks and tips.) [cwinters.com]
Panther ships with postfix instead of sendmail
I've been using localhost as my smtp server for quite some time on my PowerBook. It hasn't worked for a couple of days, and therefore, I've just stopped sending e-mail when I'm at work (I use my ISPs server at home). Finally, I buckled up and did 5 minutes worth of research to figure out the problem. It turns out that Panther doesn't ship with sendmail (which I previously had configured), but rather postfix - which I've never even heard of. Thanks to a little searching on the Apple Support site, I came across this discussion which has detailed instructions on how to configure postfix. The bonus is and that they actually worked! I still don't know what postfix is, but I assume it's just like sendmail, but for some reason it's better (or why would they have replaced sendmail).
What do you get a 1 year old for their birthday?
Abbie turns 1 year old next Wednesday - a birthday so good that they've decided to release The Matrix: Revolutions on the same day! We're having a party this weekend (yes, a keg will be there for the papas) and I don't know what to get her for her birthday. So I'm asking all you Dads out there - what was the coolest gift you got your kid(s) for their 1st birthday? When I say cool - I mean to say that they thought it was cool. Of course, if Mom thought it was cool - that counts too (esp. since it seems to be just as much for her as for Abbie).