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.
The day has finally arrived! The Bus is home 12 years and 3 days after I bought it. I detailed much of the slow and patience-heavy project in 10 years ago today, I bought a VW Bus and When is the bus gonna be done?
It's a glorious day in Raibleland and a real gas to drive. Hello Hefe!
Click here to see an updated version of this tutorial that's been upgraded for Angular 2.0 RC1.
This article is the second in a series about learning Angular 2. It describes how to test a simple Angular 2 application. In a previous article, Getting Started with Angular 2, I showed how to develop a simple search and edit feature. In this tutorial, I did my best to keep the tests similar to last year's Testing AngularJS Applications so you can compare the code between AngularJS and Angular 2.
You'll learn to use Jasmine for unit testing controllers and Protractor for integration testing. Angular's documentation has a good guide to unit testing if you'd like more information on testing and why it's important.
The best reason for writing tests is to automate your testing. Without tests, you'll likely be testing manually. This manual testing will take longer and longer as your codebase grows.
Clone the angular2-tutorial repository using git and install its dependencies.
git clone https://github.com/mraible/angular2-tutorial.git cd angular2-tutorial npm install
If you haven't completed the Getting
Started with Angular 2 tutorial,
you should peruse it so you understand how this application works.
You can also simply start the app with npm start and view it in your browser at http://localhost:5555/.
Click here to see an updated version of this tutorial that's been upgraded for Angular 2.0 RC1.
I was hired by one of my current clients in November to help them develop a project management application with AngularJS. I'm proud to say we've built the application, it looks great, and it's scheduled to be released next month. The team had lots of experience with ExtJS, but was new to AngularJS. While using AngularJS worked, they're keen on moving to Angular 2 shortly after it's released.
To help them learn Angular 2, I decided to write a couple tutorials similar to the AngularJS tutorials I wrote last year. In this tutorial, I did my best to keep the functionality and features similar to Getting Started with AngularJS so you can compare the code between the two.
You'll build a simple web application with Angular 2 and TypeScript. You'll add search and edit features with mock data.
Clone the angular2-seed repository using git:
git clone https://github.com/mgechev/angular2-seed.git angular2-tutorial cd angular2-tutorial[Read More]
I've been helping a client develop a project management application for the last several months. One of the features I implemented uses UI Bootstrap's carousel directive to display a list of project templates to choose from when creating a new project. Rather than displaying one at a time, we wanted to display as many as the user's screen would allow. That is, if they were on a large monitor, we wanted to display five templates, a medium size monitor would display three and so on. This is a story of how I implemented a smart chunking carousel.
[Read More]My Dad's 70th birthday was January 16, 2015. Years ago, we started talking about celebrating this event and suggested we go somewhere warm. Trish and I proposed Hawaii, Mexico, or even Cuba. My Dad had his own idea: he wanted to go to Jekyll Island, Georgia. He spent a few high school years in Brunswick, GA and had fond memories of the place and weather. He also wanted to drive there, because road trips are awesome. At least they are in my family. We've done many family road trips over the years; the last one was in July.
One of the great joys in owning a VW Vanagon Westfalia is having the ability to sleep anywhere. Home is where your van is. We did a bunch of van repairs and upgrades last fall: rebuilt the transmission, added modern headlights, installed a Truck Fridge and a Propex heater. It was finally in tip-top shape for winter camping (or a road trip), so I suggested to my parents that we drive it to Georgia, via New Orleans. They agreed and we all smiled with thoughts of visiting the Big Easy. We'd never been.
My parents flew to Denver a few days before we started.
Our journey began early Sunday morning, January 10th. We left Denver around 6am and I spent the first couple hours
driving in the dark, eastbound on I-70. Within the first hundred miles, the van's odometer quit working, so we
had to rely on the gas gauge to know when to fill up. For anyone that's owned a vanagon, you'll know their gas
gauges
are fairly unreliable. Tom Hanks even talked about this on the David Letterman
show.
2015 was the year The Bus was supposed to be finished. If you read my year in review from last year, you'll see I was certain of it. To be fair, I did have estimates from people that had me expecting it to be done in July. The good news is the interior was finished in July. Since then, it's been back at Reincarnation getting the finishing touches applied. I believe if it was worked on for a week straight, it could be finished. It's that close. So close I can taste it. THIS will be the year!
For this Year in Review post, I'll same the format I've used the last few years.
I had four different clients in 2015. The first was in the healthcare industry, the second in the API hosting space, one in the fashion industry and one in computer software. For the first client, I wrote about integrating Node.js, Ruby and Spring with Okta's SAML support. I also helped them adopt and learn AngularJS. Learning about Foundation and Angular was a nice treat too.
In March, I revisited how to setup your own software company. In that post, I wrote about how I felt when valuing time over money.
Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to work 20 hours per week instead of 40. It was one of the greatest work-life experiences I've had to date. I was still able to pay all my bills, and I had time during each-and-every-day to do something fun. When working 40 hours per week, exercising and cooking dinner were somewhat of a chore. When I flipped to working less, work became the chore and exercise and cooking became the fun parts of my day. I read somewhere recently that if Americans valued health over wealth, we'd be a lot better off. I felt like I did this when working less and that I was rich in time.[Read More]
I've been excited to show people JHipster and what it can do ever since I started using it in September 2014. I've been using its core frameworks (AngularJS, Bootstrap and Spring Boot) for a few years and believe they do a great job to simplify web development. Especially for Java developers.
When my JHipster talk was accepted for Devoxx Belgium, I told Trish we were headed back to Belgium. She smiled from ear-to-ear. Belgium is one of our favorite countries to visit. In an effort to live healthier prior to Devoxx, I stopped drinking beer a month beforehand. I mentioned this to friends the week prior.
One month ago, I stopped drinking beer. I hoped it'd help me with www.21-points.com and weight loss. Unfortunately, it did not.
I told myself I'd start drinking beer again when 1) The Bus was finished or 2) Trish and I arrived in Belgium for Devoxx. Looks like #2 will win (we land on Tuesday).
We arrived in Brussels late Tuesday morning and hopped aboard a train to Antwerp. After arriving, we were hungry so we stopped at Bier Central for lunch. The mussels and beer were splendid.
Last week, Takari announced that Google is Maven Central's New Best Friend. While writing a news article about this for InfoQ, I decided to run a small test to see the speed of the default Maven Central versus the new Google Cloud Storage instance. This micro benchmark didn't seem worthy of including in the article, but I think it's interesting to see the speed improvements I found.
I ran rm -rf ~/.m2/repository, then mvn install with the default repository configured. I ran the commands again with
Google Cloud Storage. I found that the downloading of dependencies, compilation and running unit tests on
AppFuse's web projects averaged 4 minutes, 30 seconds.
With Google Cloud Storage, the same process averaged 3 minutes and 37 seconds. By my calculations, this means you speed up artifact resolution
for your Maven projects by 25% by switching to Google. To do that, create a ~/.m2/settings.xml file with
the following contents.
<settings>
<mirrors>
<mirror>
<id>google-maven-central</id>
<name>Google Maven Central</name>
<url>https://maven-central.storage.googleapis.com</url>
<mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
</mirror>
</mirrors>
</settings>
Benchmark Details
My tests were run on a Mac Pro (late 2013)
with a 3.5 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5 processor and 32 GB of RAM. Bandwidth speeds during this test averaged 57 Mbps down,
6 Mbps up. Below are the timing numbers (in minutes) from my test:
Default: 4:33, 4:36, 4:32, 4:24, 4:09 Google: 5:13, 3:35, 2:15, 3:38, 3:39
Google had some wide variances in its results, with five minutes and two minutes. Because of this, I dropped the low and high numbers for each service before calculating the average. My math with raw numbers is below.
Default: 273, 276, 272, 264, 213 = 260, 4:20 276, 272, 264 = 270, 4:30 Google: 313, 215, 135, 218, 219 = 220, 3.66 = 3:40 215, 218, 219 = 3:37
Chen Eric commented on the InfoQ article to note that Chinese programmers are blocked from using Google.
Update: Jason Swank of Sonatype has done some more extensive benchmarking and found different results.
We found that average unprimed Google API (first mvn run) caching performed 30% slower than Maven Central. Primed Google API cache performance (second run) was 3% faster then Maven Central (second run). We also ran a number of cloud-based tests with similar results.
We now have a teenager. Abbie turns 13 today and we're celebrating with smiles in the Raible household. Abbie is in 7th grade now. She's a straight-A student and still loves to pick on her little brother. She's old enough that she's picked up an after school job babysitting and often has more money in her back account than I do. Trish takes her horseback riding a couple times per week and she recently competed in her first horse show competition. You can tell by the photo below that she enjoyed the experience.
If you're a long-time reader, you might remember the day she was born. I started this blog only a few months before.
Happy Birthday Abbie! Most people are scared of their children's teenage years. We're not. You're an awesome human and we love your fun-loving spirit, your kindness and your ability to rile up Jack like no other. We can't wait to experience your teenage years with you and support you in whatever challenges you take on. 😋
Last Friday, the JHipster Mini-Book was published on
InfoQ. I wrote about this milestone on the book's blog. I'm
pumped to see this release happen, and I'd like to give you a behind-the-scenes peak at how it went from idea to production.
The Idea
At the end of last year, I wrote down my goals for 2015:
My reason for wanting to write a JHipster Mini-Book was simple: I knew AngularJS, Bootstrap and Spring Boot quite well. I'd used them on several projects and I really liked how JHipster married them all together. I often ran into people that used these technologies, but hadn't heard of JHipster. I was hoping to make more people aware of the project and market my development skills at the same time.
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