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.
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Remember the dream job I found at the University of Miami? They actually called yesterday and I have a phone interview on Friday! Sweet - my first nibble on my Florida-job-hunting fishing pole. With any luck, Julie and I may be living in Florida in the next couple of months. I don't want to get too excited just yet, but it is encouraging that I got a call.
I finally finished the re-design for OnPoint Digital and now I'm at Starbuck's, uploading the release. My dad bought a subscription to T-Mobile's wireless network - and this is the first time he's had an opportunity to use it. He gets 24 hours free, and then $3/hour after that. Not a bad deal. It sucked that I had to put in 40 hours during my vacation, while my parents where in town - but oh well, it's good to be done. Our ISP is sending someone out on Thursday, so hopefully they'll fix everything at that time - and I can start blogging more - or maybe I'll be lucky enough to find satisfaction in being non-productive for awhile. ;-)
Hopefully someone has seen this before and can help me out. We have a ton (700+) of digital pictures that we've taken since Abbie was born. They're all on my Mac, and I've used iPhoto to import/organize/publish them all. Today, I noticed that the number of photos dropped from 700+ to around 250. At first I freaked out, thinking that I'd lost all our photos (I have a backup, but it's two months old). Then I looked on my hard drive, and the photos are still there, they just don't show up in iPhoto. Any ideas - how did iPhoto lose count, location, etc. of all my photos?
It looks like I was correct in assuming that Ant 1.5.2 had a bug in it's zipfileset task. How do I know? Because it's on the fixed list for Ant 1.5.3. Via Ammai.com:
The Apache Ant Project has
released version 1.5.3 of this popular Java-based build tool. This
release is mainly a bug-fix one that fixes the problem with Zip files;
it will also be the last one before Ant 1.6. Read more for
information.
Here are the bug fixes that have been incoroporated into this release:
* <zipfileset>'s filemode would get ignored and the dirmode was
used for the included files as well. As a side effect, WinZIP was
unable to extract or display the files, so they seemed to be missing
from the archive.
* <ftp> could use the wrong path separator when trying to
change the remote working directory.
* <jar update="true"> would loose all original files if you
didn't specify any nested <(zip)fileset>s and the manifest had
changed.
* If you used a value starting with \ on Windows for the appxml
attribute of <ear> or the webxml attribute of <war>, it
would be ignored.
* Ant will no longer implicitly add Sun's rt.jar in <javac>
when you use jvc and don't specify a bootclasspath.
* The prefix attribute of <zipfileset> would not generate
directory entries for the prefix itself.
* starteam checkout can now handle deleted labels.
* The Unix wrapper script failed if you invoked it as a relative
symlink and ANT_HOME has not been set.
Click here to go to
the download page.
Paul Rivers wrote a comment about yesterday's post; guessing as to why I haven't been posting much lately. There are two reasons. The first is that I firmly believe that blogging is motivated by broadband and I don't have it. Secondly, I'm on vacation. The worst part is that I'm on vacation and I've been working the whole fricken time! My parents are in town and no one has to work but me. Do I really have to work? Probably not, but one of my clients wants a re-design done by Monday - and I've known about it for a month. So I put it off and put it off, and now the deadline is here - and it's not going nearly as fast or smooth as I though it would. The major motivation for the re-design is to make the webapp work in older browsers, namely Opera 6/Linux and IE 5.5/Windows. So just as I get it working in one, it breaks in the next. I'm learning way more about Opera than I ever wanted to know. It's no fun, I want to give up and quit - but something inside me still drives me to work away and neglect my vacation. This sucks...
My family and I had a great time last night. I picked my Dad up from the airport and we hit a local microbrewery on the way home so I could school him at a couple of games of pool. He's usually pretty good, but the more beer I drank, the better I got, while it was the opposite for him. He'll blame it on his age.
One of the hot topics of the night was American's obsession with Productivity. We've talked about this topic many times; we used to call it American males are defined by their jobs. It's sad really, but if you're an American, you know what I'm talking about. If you've ever been out of work, chances are you felt less of yourself for it. The problem my Dad and I were discussing was what happens when you retire? And how do you enjoy your life now when you're so obessesed with productivity?
Russ is experiencing it. He's killing himself being so productive. I do the same thing, staying up late working on an open source project. Where my productivity does nothing more than get my name out there so someone can hire me to be more productive. Why can't we be satisfied with being un-productive? I need to find a middle-ground; a way to be satisfied with spending the entire night away from the computer. I've found that a good hard bike ride or basketball game after work will motivate me to NOT work on the computer - and that's what I'm looking for. I want to be unproductive and satisfied with it. Can you do that - or is it to un-American for you? ;-)
Dave sent an e-mail to the roller-devel mailing list tonight. If I had a more stable internet connection, I'd be crazy enough to upgrade this site tonight. It's good its unstable as I have two releases deadlines in the next couple of days (one COB tomorrow, one COB Thursday) and I'd hate to get caught up in a Roller upgrade - especially if it didn't work. Anyway, here's Dave's e-mail:
Subject: [Roller-development] Warning - latest code from CVS may be unstable
In other words: Roller now uses Hibernate for persistence!
I am in the process of checking in my Hibernate changes and switching
Roller over to Hibernate. The backend unit tests pass and I've tested
most of the UI (see the Open Office spreadsheet docs/test-plan.sxc), but
upgrading to current CVS is not recommended at this juncture... it
wouldn't be prudent.
I'll probably upgrade my site to the latest CVS code tomorrow night.
I'll let you know how it goes.
What I want to know is - How does it work? Are you pleased with the results? Is it faster? Either way (dud or wild success), I appreciate your hard work Dave and hope this change makes Roller the best weblogger ever!
If I ever migrate a project to Maven, I should probably read this article first. It's interesting to note that Maven makes it easy for project management, but not necessarily (??) for building. I know, you'll fire back that it makes it easy to build too - but if you don't have a need to manage your project, maybe you don't have a need for Maven. I find it strange that Maven is a top-level Apache project, and it hasn't even released version 1.0 yet.
Abstract: Even though Ant acts as the de facto standard for building Java programs, in many ways the tool falls short for project management tasks. In contrast, Maven, a high-level project management tool from the Apache Jakarta project, provides everything that Ant offers plus more. Java developer Charles Chan introduces Maven's features and walks you through a complete Maven project setup. [source]
If you're a Java-programming Denverite, you should probably make your way down to the Denver JUG meeting tomorrow. Mike Clark (a fellow Montanan) will be presenting Bitter EJB: Learning from Antipatterns. Sounds like a great presentation - too bad I won't be able to make it. My dad flies in at 5 and I have to pick him up from the airport. We'd much rather drink microbrews and play with Abbie than learn about EJBs. Sorry Mike - hope to meet you (in person) some other day.
I didn't know this, but JSTL's Expression Language is smarter than I thought. It is actually able to interpret the following expression:
<c:when test="{bodyId == ('login' or 'about')}">
As you can plainly see, this is much easier than the long way I was writing my expressions:
<c:when test="{bodyId == 'login' or bodyId == 'about'}">
Cool! (I removed the $ before bodyId to make Velocity happy.)
Update: False alarm - this doesn't work like I'd hoped. The long way seems to be the only real way to make this logic work.