Matt RaibleMatt Raible is a writer with a passion for software. Connect with him on LinkedIn.

The Angular Mini-Book 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.

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The JHipster Mini-Book 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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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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Friday July 18, 2003

Weekend with Dad

My pappy is flying in this afternoon, and it's looking to be a great weekend. Julie and Abbie headed to Florida yesterday for a friend's baby shower, so it's a "guys weekend." For Father's Day this year, I got us tickets to the Mile High Nationals (top fuel dragsters) on Sunday. It's a nice WT event, and being from Montana - we'll fit right in! ;-)

I'm picking him up from the airport this afternoon, and we're heading for the hills shortly after. We'll be camping and fishing tonight and tomorrow and I can't friggen wait. Like Dave and his Dad, both my dad and I can sit in front of our laptops for hours on end - so we're leaving them behind and getting out of dodge. Don't expect any updates until Sunday or Monday.

Posted in General at Jul 18 2003, 08:43:59 AM MDT Add a Comment
Thursday July 17, 2003

Bear Creek Trail

what a view

Awesome trail, saw an Elk.

Posted in General at Jul 17 2003, 11:33:40 PM MDT Add a Comment

Our new Internet Service from Comcast

Yesterday, Comcast showed up to install their cable internet service at our new house. Long story short: We bought a new house by DU, but haven't sold ours in Morrison yet. Hopefully it'll sell soon, or we'll be stuck paying two mortgages. I have to give a glowing review to Comcast and how everything was executed in setting up our service. One week ago, I signed up for (and scheduled) an appointment online to have Comcast High-Speed Internet installed. They called me to confirm my appointment two days before, and then gave me a 2 hour window that I had to be at the house. The guy showed up 5 minutes early, and was done 15 minute early. Sweet! We have nothing else in the new place (we haven't moved yet), but we have internet access - yeah baby, yeah.

I'm very impressed - it only took one week to get high-speed internet. Remember the days when it would takes months from the time you ordered DSL until it got installed? I'm pumped too because it's cable, which is the fastest IMO. I have friends in town with DSL and friends with cable; cable is much, much faster (~ 2MB down). You might think I'm biased because I currently work at Comcast. At Comcast, not for Comcast - I'm just a contractor, no benefits for me. The lucky bastards I work with get cable and high-speed internet for free - not to mention a TV in their office/cube (if they want).

Posted in General at Jul 17 2003, 06:17:55 AM MDT 6 Comments
Wednesday July 16, 2003

A RaibleLand Holiday: My Birthday

I was born on this day 29 years ago, at 4:30 in the morning. I was born at the cabin, with only my dad (who is a Navy man, not a doctor) to assist. I came out with my umbilical cord wrapped around my neck and my whole head was blue. This had to be quite a surprise for my parents, doing the home birth and all. My dad, always good at thinking fast, grabbed his hunting knife from his belt and sliced that puppy off in a split second. And that's why I'm here today.

Ever since I worked at eDeploy.com, where they gave us our birthday's off, I've continued to take the day off. So today, there will be none of this blog checking, e-mail reading nonsense (save for an early morning peak) - but rather a whole bunch of goofing off, playing with my favorite ladies, and possibly some indulgence into a few of my favorite savory Colorado microbrews.

Posted in General at Jul 16 2003, 07:32:51 AM MDT 4 Comments
Monday July 14, 2003

RE: The economics of writing a computer trade book

I found a good tidbit this morning (on the java-writers' mailing list) titled "The economics of writing a computer trade book." Good stuff to read if you're an author or wanting to be an author. Scott estimates the average payout for authors is $20/page for books and $50-$250/page for magazine articles.

Bottom line, write magazine articles if you're doing it for money. If you're doing it for fame, write a book. If you're writing a book, warn your family and friends that you'll be unavailable for the duration of your writing. Don't forget to mention you'll be stressed out, irritable and you'll bitch a lot that they're not paying you nearly enough for your efforts. Then plan a party when the book is released and give yourself (and your family) a pat on the back. I've been waiting to plan this party since March!

Posted in General at Jul 14 2003, 08:55:27 AM MDT Add a Comment
Sunday July 13, 2003

Issues I'm having with XP and Red Hat

I got everything setup as needed yesterday, and I'm thoroughly enjoying my seemingly new Windows box. However, I can't get at my data. My data is on my old hard drive and I can't seem to get Windows to recognize it as needed, though it works great as the primary disk. I've posted a question with my issue on experts-exchange.com, so hopefully I'll have it fixed soon enough.

My second issue is very minor. I'm adding a 2nd hard drive to my Red Hat 9 machine, and I'm curious to know where you Linux gurus mount a 2nd hard drive? I currently have it mounted as an NTFS drive at /mnt/windows, thanks to the Linux-NTFS Project. But now I want to format it as a Linux filesystem and share it via Samba.

My third issue is a little wierd. I have Samba setup and running, but I can't login to any of the shared directories. The username/password dialog just keeps prompting me (from my Windows machines). I could probably figure out the problem if I spent more than 10 minutes looking for an answer - but alas, I have not.

Windows is running super fast though, and that makes me happy.

Posted in General at Jul 13 2003, 09:19:53 PM MDT 6 Comments
Saturday July 12, 2003

Speeding up my computers

In an effort to speed up my Windows XP machine and stave off the urge to buy a new computer - I'm re-installing Windows XP. I've installed and re-installed Windows quite a bit in my lifetime, but this time I'm doing it different. Rather than risking my data, I bought a new hard drive. Can you believe that the smallest hard drive you can buy these days is 30 GB?! Everything installed easy enough and the machine (1.5 GHz, 1 GB RAM) is much faster, now I'm only going to install the apps I actually use. This means that I'll install them only as I need them. Hopefully this will result in a leaner, meaner machine.

I am strongly considering a new G5, but I need a new (better paying) contract to justify that. And if I do get this $6000 dream machine (23" monitor, 1 GB RAM), it won't be a replacement for my Windows machine - it'll just be a new primary machine. I don't want to have to buy Quicken or Quickbooks for the Mac, it's much easier to just keep the old machine around.

As I write this, I'm on my second attempt at installing XP. The first attempt worked fine, but for some reason - the new hard drive was given a drive letter of F. Maybe it got confused with the new slave drive. So I'm in the midst of a 2nd attempt, this time w/o the slave drive connected. Wish me luck.

Posted in General at Jul 12 2003, 11:04:10 AM MDT 4 Comments
Friday July 11, 2003

Pornolize your blog

This is some seriously funny stuff. Try it on your blog and I guarantee you'll get a chuckle or two out of it.

Posted in General at Jul 11 2003, 01:53:40 PM MDT 4 Comments
Wednesday July 09, 2003

Pictures from the Cabin

We had an awesome time at the cabin this 4th of July, as evidenced by the many photos I snapped. Enjoy!

Seeley Lake through my sunglasses Abbie and I at the beautiful Holland Lake

Posted in General at Jul 09 2003, 05:57:36 AM MDT Add a Comment
Tuesday July 08, 2003

Back from the Cabin

I just flew in from Montana this morning - and boy does it suck to be back. Being back in Denver isn't so bad, it's sitting at the keyboard, programming Java, reading weblogs/e-mail and being stuck in an office while summer is going on! Man is it beautiful outside right now. And it's even nicer in Montana. 5 days of laughing, sleeping, rafting, playing frisbee, BBQ-ing, friends and the wonderful sun makes it very hard to come back to this thing I despise today - work.

Sure it'll be fun in a day or so when I start becoming a part of this digital world again - through responding to e-mails and updating this site - but right now - bbblllllllllaaaaahhhh!!! Give me a beer and a lawn chair and put me back on vacation - that's where I belong - on the front porch of the cabin, with Abbie on my lap - listening to the birds chirping and watching the deer tiptoe through the garden below. Rafting down the crystal green river on the Middle Fork of the Flathead. There's nothing like summer in Montana.

Posted in General at Jul 08 2003, 02:35:29 PM MDT 1 Comment