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.
I got inspired by Russ's post and decided to try once again to connect my PowerBook to the Internet using Bluetooth/GRPS. I found an OS X GRPS HowTo on AT&T's site, and whaddya know - I'm connected 10 minutes later. Very cool - 29.8 KB per second (according to http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest). Hopefully, I'll never need to use this, but it's nifty to know it's there.
After searching and interviewing for the last few weeks, I finally decided on my next gig this morning. Phew - I'm glad that process is over with.
I've accepted a position with ResortQuest [quote] in Lafayette, CO (about 30 miles north of my house). They run a high traffic (I think) website for booking vacation rentals and own many local property management companies. Currently, it's written in Cold Fusion and I'll be helping them migrate it to a Struts-based architecture. They've already done their Smoky Mountain site in Tennessee, and now there's a big push to get the mountain resort properties done for the ski season.
I'm pretty pumped about the position - there's a team of about 10 and also a Graphics Design group. I've never been on a team with a Graphics Design group - so that should be awesome - no more worrying about look and feel, just coding. The commute might kinda suck, but most traffic is going the other way. Not being able to ride my bike to work will be a bummer, but none of my other opportunities had that either - so I can't fault them for that. One of the biggest perks is that they don't have a BYOL policy, and they've already got the machines in house, so I can hit the ground running.
Because I don't need to bring my own laptop, I will be returning the ZX7 today. Who knows if I'll get a new computer anytime soon - I don't really need one now. My newly installed XP box is humming along just fine, and all I really need is a DVD burner. Does anyone know if it's possible to buy/connect an external DVD burner to a PowerBook? Julie has recently got into iMovie video-editing and we'd like to burn these to DVD w/o buying a whole new computer.
I found a cool State Tag this morning that I'm using in my project this week. It works very nice and just like I'd expect. Here's how I'm using it:
<%@ taglib uri="http://www.servletsuite.com/servlets/statetag"
prefix="state" %>
...
<bean:define id="state" name="userFormEx"
property="state" type="java.lang.String" />
<state:state name="state" default="<%=state%>" />
Since java.blogs has already seen an announcement for Tomcat 5.0.7, there's no reason for me to do it as well. But, there is a very cool enhancement added to this release. From the changelog:
~ Allow putting a /META-INF/context.xml inside any WAR file
This allows much easier deployment IMO. Now you only need to deploy/upload one file, instead of the WAR file and a config (context.xml) file. However, this isn't part of the J2EE 1.4 spec, and other appservers have their own means of configuring - so this is not a portable solution. It would be very cool if there was a common way of doing this for Resin, Orion and Tomcat. I don't know how it would work, but maybe something like META-INF/tomcat-config.xml, META-INF/orion-config.xml, etc.
This release contains all kinds of goodies - including a new password hint feature, a compression filter, and a JSP 2.0-syntax option (when deploying). It also fixes a bug in persisting roles and includes many upgrades of dependent packages (Hibernate, PMD, Checkstyle, DBUnit and WebTest).
(~10.7 MB for src, ~3.4 MB for bin)
Enjoy!
I finally find some time to release the next version of [AppFuse] and SourceForge fucks me once again.
We're Sorry.
The SourceForge.net Website is currently down for maintenance.
We will be back shortly
We bought some new patio furniture (a steal at $79 found by my penny-pinching lover) yesterday and I set it up this morning. Sure is nice to be outside on the ol' wireless network and writing this post. Yesterday was my last day in an office for at least a week - now if I can only find a way to wear shorts at work for the rest of the summer. Hmmm, that'll be a question I'll ask my next employer/client - "Can I wear shorts to work?" ;-) I think that's one of the best perks there is.
Today, my new laptop is trying my patience. So much so that I asked if I could return it (15% restocking fee, or 0% if I buy another system from them). The problem? The power cord quit working (it's been gradually dying), not to mention that the 802.11b/Bluetooth doesn't work and it feels like I'm packing around a desktop. Oh, and then there's the problem that every-so-often, I can't connect to the internet via a browser. I have IE and Firebird installed, and neither will connect. A flash, and then a "Done" status. I still have connectivity, proven by ping and e-mail, but no websites come up. What a pain - rebooting fixes the problem. Don't get me wrong, I love the performance and large screen - but only when I'm using it. Today it hasn't been useable - so it's just sitting next to me saying "look at how loud and heavy I am."
I called Hypersonic and I was impressed in how quickly I was able to talk with someone, though I was a little disappointed that they hadn't returned an e-mail that I sent last night (I called at 9 this morning, 11 their time). I told them that the powercord was dead and I needed a new one. They said they could send it out Monday and it'd be here by next Thursday. That's when I asked about returning it and now it'll be here tomorrow. This is actually the second time I've had to threaten to get something done sooner. The good thing is that it works - the bad is that they should just give me the overnight option since I remember that being a big plus about the company over AlienWare (I read it in a review or something).
The other reason I'm thinking of returning it is that I don't really need a laptop - at least not yet. I don't know what my next gig will be and if they will require a laptop - if they don't - I probably don't need it (except to save the marriage). What I mean is I don't need it for development, which makes me lean towards a new PowerBook (slow is OK sans development). Damn, I wish there was a 2 GHz PowerBook. Then again, refreshing my XP Desktop with a Sonic Boom doesn't sound so bad either.
Found a cool site today from Alexa.com (an Amazon company). It gives detailed
info on your site such as traffic rank, other sites that link to yours, speed and "online since." Here's my details - looks like I need to speed things up a bit:
Speed: Very Slow (7th percentile)
