Abbie Loo
Abbie Loo - at seven months. Should be a great weekend with the little one.
We might even do some reading - a new nightly tradition.
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
- Cruising the Danube on the Riverside Mozart
- 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!
Windows Explorer Tricks
I got this one from Russ's comments on this post. If you use a command prompt in Windows, type "start ." to open Explorer for the current directory. If you're a Cygwin user like me, this won't work - but "explorer ." does work! Even better, create an alias in your .bashrc file (alias open='explorer') and then you can type "open ." Sweet!
Added Calendar to Menu
I added a calendar to my "badges" menu on the top left. This is a JavaScript-based calendar that I obtained from Matt Kruse's JavaScript Toolbox. I don't know if I'm satisfied with the green background on the "cal" image, but it'll have to do for now. I've noticed a couple of issues in Safari (too far down and too the right, and doesn't go away like it should), but it seems to work pretty good in IE/Mozilla. I tried disabling dates > today, but couldn't get it to work (yeah, I tried the code from Matt's site).
I don't know if it's worth the effort of talking to Roller's CalendarModel to get the actual days that somethings been posted. However, it would probably be fairly easy to generate a JavaScript array for the current month, rather than an HTML-based <table>.
If you're interested, here's how you can add this sucker to your Roller weblog:
1. Add the following code to the <head> of your template.
<script type="text/javascript" src="pathToScript.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var cal = new CalendarPopup("calDiv");
cal.setReturnFunction("showDate");
document.write(cal.getStyles());
// Function to get input back from calendar popup
function showDate(y,m,d) {
var day = y+LZ(m)+LZ(d);
location.href = "$ctxPath/page/$userName/" + day;
}
</script>
2. Add an empty, invisible div anywhere w/in the <body> of your template (I put mine at the bottom).
<div id="calDiv"
style="position: absolute; visibility: hidden"></div>
3. Add a link (can contain an image) to invoke the calendar popup.
<a href="?" name="calAnchor" id="calAnchor"
onclick="cal.showCalendar(this.id); return false">
Calendar</a>
You can download the calendar.js file from this site, but please don't link to it - I have enough bandwidth problems as is (and I'm going to move it to a new theme name). Enjoy!
Changes a comin'
Site changes coming in the next 24 hours. I'll add the new (low bandwidth) theme to Roller if requested.
[ANNOUNCE] Commons EL 1.0 Released!
The Jakarta Commons Team is pleased to announce the first official release
of Commons EL from the Apache Software Foundation. Commons EL provides
an interpreter for the Expression Language that is part of the
JavaServer Pages(TM) specification, version 2.0.
For more details see the
release notes.
Source and
binary distributions
are available from the mirrors. Please remember to verify the signatures
of the distribution using the keys found on the
main apache site
when downloading from a mirror.
For more information on Commons EL, see the
EL
web site.
Hmmm, I wonder if this means we can add EL support to the display tag library without including JSTL?
The Matrix at Red Rocks
This looks pretty cool - they're showing "The Matrix" at at Red Rocks. Not the new one, the old one - which I've been longing to see again ever since I saw Reloaded. For those of you not familiar with Red Rocks, it's an awesome natural ampitheater - and it's only minutes from my house (15 minutes on a bike). I just might have to go - looks like fun.
A nice quote
...this year's J1 taught me that "home" is not a place, but a feeling. (That's so '82!
)
I couldn't have said it better myself. It's why I'm so pumped to visit the cabin for the 4th. I'll make sure to take lots of pictures...
Posted in General
at Jun 17 2003, 01:27:51 PM MDT
Happy Father's Day
Happy Father's Day to all the Dads out there. Especially to the ones I know of: Dave, Lance and Russ (also the guys I've known longest in this weblogging business). Should be a good day - I've already done a Sunrise Mtn. Bike ride and now we're heading off to a Cajun restaurant for brunch. Here's a couple of recent photos so you can see why I'm such a proud Dad.
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Hope y'all have a good one!