Great American Beer Festival
Next week: The Great American Beer Festival. I just got an e-mail saying they've accepted me as a volunteer on the Brew Crew. Should be a good time.
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
New Desktop?
While I'm seriously thinking about a new PowerBook, the more important item on the agenda is refreshing my desktop. It's a P4 1.5 GHz (1 MB RAM) Dell Dimension 8100. I like Windows XP and I love writing Java in it - moreso than any other OS (really!). So I owe it to myself to speed things up a bit on my primary development box. So I went searching on eBay and found I can get a much better machine (almost twice as fast) for only $800. Do you think that's a good deal? I sure do...
Test driving the new PowerBooks
I called my local Apple Store today to see if they had any new PowerBooks in. They did (though they've sold out of their 15" with combo/super drives for the day), and now I'm here test-driving the 17" with 1.33 Mhz and 512 MB RAM. It wouldn't be right if I didn't compare this machine against these performance numbers. So here goes:
- Opening Eclipse (3.0 M2): 10 seconds
- Opening Photoshop (7.0.1): 8 seconds
- Running "ant rebuild" on Roller (0.9.7.3): 32 seconds (ooh, this actually beats the 2 GHz machine I had at Comcast, by 4 seconds).
- Running "ant clean package-web" on AppFuse (0.9.1): 21 seconds (3 seconds slower than the 2 GHz Pentium)
I'm not as disappointed as I thought I'd be. Good thing I left my wallet in the car!
JSF: Allows WebWork style Actions
Am I working too late or does JSF allow a WebWork style Action? According to this post, you can have your properties and your logic in the same class (like WebWork). Also, no more worrying about BeanUtils.copyProperties()?
Struts encourages you to use Strings for field values that might need conversion, in order to redisplay correctly in case of conversion errors. You don't need to worry about that with JavaServer Faces, because the redisplay is handled by the components themselves. You will generally use the native data types for your field properties.
Regardless of what the WW Developers say, I think I'm gonna dig Java Server Faces.
Booting from my iPod
In an attempt to get rid of Microsoft (believe me, I've tried everything), I installed OS X on my iPod this morning, and now I'm trying too boot from it. According to this article, all I need to do it hold down "T" when booting. I tried this and I get a blue screen with a firewire icon jumping around - and that's it, it just stays there, as if it's hung. Do I need to format my iPod before installing OS X on it?
PowerBooks aren't cheap
I priced my ideal 15" and 17" laptops this morning. 15"/1GB RAM/5400 RPM/Extra Battery/AppleCare is $3,702.00, 17" version of the same is $4,002.00. Not much of a difference for a couple more inches on the screen. Is this the only difference between the two - or does the 15" have Aluminum and the 17" is the same as my old 15"/667 PowerBook?
Boy is it tempting to get one, but I can't seem to justify it. The only thing I can come up with is that I really *want* one, no need though. The mind wants, the pocketbook doesn't.
Anyone know when they'll be available in the Retail Stores - I'd love to take one for a test drive.
New PowerBooks!
Charles has more. Too bad these suckers aren't faster - but the price is nice - and its twice as fast as my current one. It sure is tempting. As I'm writing this, I can't even price a 17" bad boy b/c the Apple Store appears to be getting hammered.
 
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New Powerbooks
Will Steve announce new PowerBooks tomorrow? I hope so!
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is scheduled to give a keynote presentation tomorrow at 9 a.m. GMT to start off the Apple Expo in Paris, amidst rumors that he may introduce new PowerBook models.