RSS and Relative URLs
Even though my RSS still does not validate, the latest beta of NetNewsWire seems to support relative links. One small step for webloggers, now if we could only get the RSS spec leads on board.
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
- A Not-So-Fond Farewell to the 2025-26 Ski Season
- 2025 - A Year in Review
- Happy Birthday, Abbie!
- The Summer of Travel (2025 Edition)
- Happy Birthday, Jack!
- Farewell to the 2024-2025 Ski Season
- Paradise in Puerto Rico
- 2024 - A Year in Review
- Life Update: New Job, Same House, and Same Awesome Family!
- Happy Birthday, Abbie!
Make Roller Better
Like Dave said:
There are lots of little problems with Roller's UI, lots of room for improvements, and lots of missing weblogging features. Make sure the issues that are bugging you get into Roller's JIRA issue tracker. Look at the list of issues that are not yet assigned to a release and vote on the ones that are most important to you. You can also view the currently most popular issues.
So help us improve Roller and the world will be a better place - or at least our part of the world will be...
I'm loving the comments feature.
I really like the comments feature because it's as if I have hidden treasures waiting for me on my site. Like the demanding, never-satisfied client, I now ask - can we add the last 20 comments feature like MiniBlog has?
Struts now produces XHTML?!
I logged this bug many moons ago (December 19, 2001) - and tonight it appears to have been fixed!! This is sweeter than all getout in my opinion. This means that adding <html:html xhtml="true"> to the top of your JSP when using Struts will render XHTML-compliant markup. I haven't tested it yet - thanks David Graham!
OS X 10.2.2 Update
Found at Mac Rumors:
The 10.2.2 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications and technologies: Address Book, iChat, IP Firewall, Mail, Print Center, Rendezvous, Sherlock and Windows file service discovery. The update also includes the updated services previously delivered in Security Update 2002-09-20. [ learn more... ]
Veterans Day
My cousin Paul and I are the first men on both sides of my family that haven't been members of the Armed Forces. My father had to serve as he was drafted in his early twenties. His parents (Margaret and Joseph Raible) were career officers and served in WWII. My mother's father (Oliver Hill) was in the Amphibious Corps, which predated the Navy Seals. I thank all these men in my family and all other veterans for giving me the freedom I have. Thanks for making this country safe for my family and for my children.
Broncos vs. Raiders on Monday Night Football
Sweet! There's a great game on the tube tonight. Broncos vs. Raiders (a HUGE rivalry in these parts) in the 500th Monday Night Football game. Go Broncos!
Click on the cute little Broncos Cheerleader (Abbie) for some pictures from this weekend.
Macromedia's Contribute
Macromedia has released a trial version and QuickTime videos of it's newest app, cleverly named Contribute. It looks pretty cool, though I don't know many business types who want to edit/update their own website. They usually prefer to just have someone do the updates for them. I think it'll flop unless it's super cheap - like $50 or something.
Update: I found a good review here.
Update 2: Zeldman says $99 bucks.
Comments by Lance
Lance did some nice work on Roller this weekend and implemented the much-desired Comments feature. Nice job Lance!
It also seems that Eclipse 2.0.2 was quietly released on Friday (it says Thursday on the downloads page, Friday on the dev mailing list). This update does not appear to be available from Help > Software > Update Manager. Hopefully it will be soon. Does IDEA have an upgrade within the IDE feature?
Good Stuff @ Rebelutionary
Mike seems to have reduced his blogging frequency as of late, but when he does write, it's good stuff.
OpenSymphony has a new Wiki online, powered by SnipSnap. It should be useful for on-the-fly documentation writing and tip sharing. Already the WebWork Cookbook has moved there and got some extra contributions!
... and ...
For those of you not using IDEA, can your IDE do all this?
IDEA has always looked good to me and I agree that it's a great IDE. But I can't argue with Eclipse's price! And Eclipse seems to be getting a lot more users of late - I'll bet it ends up with more users simply on price. I tried talking with the IDEA folks a while back about discounted pricing for a one-man show. They said it sounded good, but no thanks. At least they responded. And I found myself only starting IDEA when I really needed it. I find myself starting Eclipse every time I edit a .java file. I also found this review of IDEA 3.0 on JDJ's site, and learned that IDEA 3.0 will be available for download tomorrow.