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.
Last week, after the shindig in Vegas, my parents met me and we drove from Vegas back to Denver - through Zion National Park, the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, and Mesa Verde National Park. The photo below is what we dropped our jaws to on Saturday morning. Click on it to view President Roosevelt's speech at the Grand Canyon on May 6, 1903.
"the one great sight every American...should see" -- President Theodore Roosevelt
at youngpup.net - How to Create Pop-Up Windows. It's basically a way to create javascript pop-up windows that are friendly to both web-savvy surfers and beginners alike.
I forgot to post these last week - but for you Web UI developers - favelets (a.k.a. bookmarklets) can sure make your development life a lot easier.
A bookmarklet is a simply a javascript script masquerading as a URL. The pseudo-protocol javascript: tells the browser to have javascript interpret what follows. Otherwise they can be treated just like any other url, by inserting into a link, pasting directly into the location bar, or bookmarked or added to your favourites. Like many people I have the ones I use most often added to my links bar, where they become handy extensions to the browser's functionality.
Here are some good links for some cool favelets. Most of them seem to be targeting IE on Windows/Mac - and I found that some didn't work on XP/IE6 SP1. But still, they're great for validation and showing table/div borders.
In my search of these resources, I found www.web-graphics.com which appears to be a good blog on cutting edge web-ui technologies. Cool - I'll add it to my daily reads list. BTW, I've added a feature to Roller where you can make your Bookmark and Newsfeed folders collapsible/expandable in modern browsers. When I upgrade this site, it might be cool to split up my "Blogrolling" links into Java, Web UI and Good Reads - we'll see. Most of you are probably like me and are using Mozilla bookmark tabs feature to get your daily reads.
That's what the XHTML validator says. Dammit - I like iframes! I'm leaving it in, this site will not validate as XHTML 1.0 until today leaves the front page - oh well. :-(
I've seen this stylesheet switcher before, but now I've found a good explanation about it. The problem I see with it is that it won't work in Opera, and probably not Konquerer either. The current one on this site works on all browsers, but doesn't allow me to validate my css.
To use ALA's stylesheet switcher, I'd have to change my stylesheet references from using @import url(...) to <link rel="stylesheet> src="...". The problem with this is that I use the @import syntax so Netscape 4 doesn't apply a stylesheet, and this site is still readable. Turn off the stylesheet to see what a NN4 user sees. If I use <link rel="stylesheet> src="...", then NN4 will apply the stylesheet.
The solution, as I learned at the conference last week, is to split up my stylesheets into a simple version and a sophisticated version - as explained by Zeldman. I might do this, but it seems like it might be waste to even care about NN4 users since no one visiting this site has used NN4 this month.
Have we run out of strategies for fighting this evil scourge? Is it hopeless? Maybe not. Hal Helms commits a little heresy at A List Apart.
I think that WYSIWYG are great. However, when I switched to writing standards-compliant XHTML - I found that it became more difficult to rely on an editor. Both Dreamweaver and Homesite are pretty slick in that they give you "standards-compliant" markup when you have an XHTML DOCENGINE at the top of your document.
The reason I bring this up is because I have been advocating a WYSIWYG HTML editor for Roller - and now there is one! However, after looking at the code generated, I noticed <font color="#ac5454"> - yikes font tags! I pray that this editor has a "smart HTML" feature - but I doubt it will. Nor do I care - I love the feature and will use it often - I just have to remember to edit the HTML or this site will fail validation.
From www.theserverside.com:
Many have have wondered at what the future holds for Struts, now that an early access release of JavaServer Faces is available. Craig McClanahan, JSF Spec Lead and Lead Architect for Struts has recently commented on the subject. Craig is working on an integration library for JSF and Struts 1.1 that will allow migration to JSF without major code changes to existing struts apps. [ Craig's email on Struts + JSF integration ]
I'm smack dab in the middle of a major time crunch on my current project, or I'd review the above article and post my opinion. Maybe in the next few days.
I received the following message from Porter just a few minutes ago:
Hey Matt,
Just a quick FYI: your latest style switcher worked fine for me in
WinMoz 1.2a. I get the full sunset style after clicking the link.
- Porter
I downloaded the latest Mozilla (1.2a) and whalla - now it works great. Quite a delimna now though - especially since I'm using similar code on a client's app I'm building write now. So I guess this validates that my code is correct and now I have to find a workaround for Mozilla 1.1. 
