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.
Found this daddio from some co-workers today: GeForce4 MX440 64MB DDR 4x AGP Card w/Dual VGA. All for a measly $36.55. Now if they only made one of these for laptops. I'd love to make my next computer an Intel-based PowerBook, but you can only plug in one additional monitor to a laptop - I'd love to have dual.
I am once again gripped with that emotion - "there's not enough time in the day!" I wake up at the ass-crack of dawn and still can't seem to get everything done that I need to. So I began planning my days and writing down "to do's" for each day. I'm using iCal for the time being, with Outlook and Yahoo's Calendar in my back-pocket if this doesn't work out. As a small experiment, I created the Denver JUG's upcoming meeting list as an iCal. Feel free to subscribe, I don't plan on deleting it.
I've had people ask me how to run Tomcat on Port 80 before (as a non-root user). I've never had an answer until now. Today I found that Holger Klawitter has a solution using Kernel space port forwarding. I don't have a need to try this at the moment, but if someone is using it - please share your experiences.
As an FYI, Tomcat 5 will use commons-daemon making this much easier to do. Also, the first Beta of Tomcat 5 (5.0.9) has been released.
Russ reminds us why Web Standards are cool:
From Zeldman which I just recently added to my aggregator, I just saw this great awesome article on how the XHTML/CSS design was created for the new Lee Jeans - One True Fit website.
The overview is short and to the point and gives links to all the
tricks used on the page to get the design desired. Adding ?style=false
to any of the page's urls will show the non-css markup. The difference
is astounding. I'm more and more amazed at the power of a good designer
and CSS every day.
This article is very elegant in explaining how CSS and XHTML can simplify your life. I'm a huge fan of web standards and (luckily) have been able to convince most teams/clients to use them in the past couple of years. Just to remind you how easy it is to write XHTML, check out the New York Public Library's XHTML Guidelines.
On a related topic, I've had a few folks ask for my wiki's theme recently. So here it is. Enjoy!
I can tell I've been out of the loop for awhile. Hibernate has improved their site and moved to their domain (hibernate.org). Cool - looks very nice fellas. I especially dig the fact that you're now hosting your own user forums.
I'm not doing much Hibernate work these days - my new gig already has all the persistence layer written with JDBC DAO's, so there's not much reason to re-write them. The funny part is that if I need to write a new DAO, it'd probably be faster for me to do it with Hibernate, but since politics require all technologies be approved - it'd never happen. Why do the tools developers use have to be approved? So new (and existing) developers don't have to constantly learn new stuff. Bad for brain, good for business.
We just got back into Denver a few hours ago. It's great to be home, but it sucks that vacation is over. 10 days of driving up the cool California coast - aaaahhhhh blissful... We had an awesome time seeing my parents and sister, as well as a few old friends (and their families). It reminded me of two things: 1) don't sink your life into your job - it can disappear at any time, family and friends are forever, and 2) the United States is a beautiful country. We're actually thinking about moving to San Diego in the next 6 months.
Tonight the e-mail reading, blog reading, and tech support begins. I feel like it's a 2nd job. I feel like I need to put in 2-3 hours per night to keep up. However, with my just-got-back-from-vacation mindset, the motivation just isn't there. It feels good to be de-motivated, rather than technology obsessed - too bad it won't last very long.
Last night, we had a scrumptious dinner at the Crab House on Pier 39. While walking home, we were honored to see a beautiful yellow and gold sunset along the water. Today, we're heading out to Alcatraz and possibly a on winery tour.
We just checked into a hotel on Fisherman's Wharf - should be a good night! Saturday and Sunday was spent in San Diego (highlights: Mission Bay, Sea World). Yesterday, we drove like mad to Big Sur, only to discover that all the cabins and hotels were full (WTF - aren't kids in school!). So we ended up staying in Monterey Bay last night, checked out the Monterey Aquarium today, and arrived in San Fran a few minutes ago. It's pretty cool to be here. The California coast has been mesmerizing so far - a very cool place for a road trip.
Wi-Fi (walkwire) in the lobby, but couldn't get on.
After working 12 days straight, this is gonna be fantastic...
(Returning September 2nd)
I presented my views on why we should use Maven over Ant today in a meeting. My basic reasons are simple: 1) the ability to download jars (and have a central repository for all projects) and 2) to have a standard directory structure and build/test/deploy mechanism. It's going over like a fart in a crowded room so far. The major pushback is because supposedly you can convert JBuilder's .jqx files to Ant build files. Has anyone does this? How does it work? They mentioned that if there is a converter for .jqx -> maven build files, then they'd be happy to try it.
If we do use Ant (high probability), now begins the arduous task of standardizing across projects, as well as creating a "lib" module in CVS to store all the jars for the different projects. Good thing I'm on vacation next week! ;-)
