At the game
Nice seats eh?!
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.
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I'm outta here!
I leave for the airport in less than 5 hours. First I'm off to New York for my Grandpa Joe's funeral, then I fly back to Denver on Sunday and hop on a plane on Monday for vacation in Florida. I'm kindof disappointed my laptop didn't make it back from Apple in time for this trip, but it's probably a blessing more than anything.
Not having a laptop, my productivity addiction will go unsatisfied (but my stress level will subside) and I'll likely feel out of touch with Java and technology when I return. However, I hope that I turn into my old self on this trip - whom I affectionately refer to as Montana Matt. An easy-going, low-stress guy who doesn't care about much outside of family, friends and having a good time. I'd like to smile a lot, quite worrying about work, and forget about all the open source projects that need releases. I plan on laughing a lot, sleeping in every day, and tipping back a few pints with family and friends. I probably won't be reading any blogs, but I do plan on doing a little mophoto-ing.
See you in a couple of weeks - normal operations will likely resume around the end of the month.
Open Source Testing
We all know how much open source Java tools have helped us - how about open source testing tools? Opensourcetesting.org looks to be a great site for saving some cizash for your QA department (or for you when you're wearing that hat).
Opensourcetesting.org aims to boost the profile of open-source testing tools within the testing industry and give you easy access to open source testing tools from one central location. As you'll see from the tools on offer, there are some very usable, sophisticated and stable open source testing tools out there.
[Montana] Great Photo
This picture was taken in the Bitterroot National Forest in Montana on August 6, 2000 by a fire behavior analyst from Fairbanks, Alaska by the name of John McColgan with a digital camera. Since he was working while he took the picture, he cannot sell or profit from it so he should at least be recognized as the photographer of this once in a lifetime shot.
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Our new Tivo
I gave Julie a Series 2 for her birthday today. We set it up and now it takes 4-8 hours while it downloads and programs itself. Pretty cool. Spendy though - the Home Media Option is another $100, and if I want broadband access (which I do), I have to buy a Wireless USB Adapter. Oh well, we figure to have it for a long, long time and we love our last one. Julie was pissed that I spent more than $50 on her birthday present, but bit her toungue because she got mad at the last Tivo I bought her and now thinks its the best birthday present ever!
On a side note, I discovered that Tivo Central Online (the site to remotely program your Tivo) is Powered By Struts - sweet!
Update: I just got the following e-mail from Julie. I guess you could say that she gives the Series 2 a thumbs down.
i think we should return tivo. i don't think it's better than the one we have now. you can view another show while recording but only if you switch the channel on the tv and watch regular tv w/out tivo. it just seems like a lot of money for no/few more options. maybe we should wait a couple years for the technology to progress.
Help re-name XDoclet
The XDoclet Team is looking for a new name for XDoclet 2. This is to eliminate confusion b/w version 1 and version 2. Checkout the current suggestions and add your own if you like. If you don't know what XDoclet is, or haven't used it, you're wasting precious development hours IMO.
Java Treats
Here are a number of Java-related treats I found this morning that will likely serve as good personal bookmarks in the future.
- Ryan is looking for an XML-based properties class and one of his commenters (Dmitry) points to this article about the J2SE 1.4 Preferences API. Good stuff.
- From JavaWorld (via Erik): Java Tip 138: Still parsing to generate your JavaBeans' XML representation?
- Dave Hyatt makes XBL look wicked cool! If we could only get Microsoft to support it, it might actually be useful.
- After reading this article I wonder if I should replace my Powerbook (w/in the next year) with another Powerbook, or an Intel based laptop. I do most of my development on Windows because I'm more productive and as an American, I get a buzz from being productive. So why buy another Mac? Intel-based PCs are faster - if I really want a Unix core, I can just run Linux. With VMWare for XP, I find it hard to justify buying another Mac. Besides, I already own one and the desire is out of my system. And furthermore, I dig how Dell will come to your house and fix your PC, whereas Apple makes you send it in for two weeks - what's up with that?!
Running latest version of Roller
I upgraded to the latest version of Roller from CVS this morning. Everything appears to have gone smoothly. Too bad this bug didn't get fixed in the upgrade. The bug is that $baseURL doesn't get resolved in IE, but it does in Mozilla. This is quite strange since it's server-side code, and the browser shouldn't matter. Unfortunately, it seems to on my version of IE6.