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.

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For book updates, follow @angular_book on Twitter.

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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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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.

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!

Posted in General at Jun 25 2003, 09:49:49 PM MDT 2 Comments

Changes a comin'

Site changes coming in the next 24 hours. I'll add the new (low bandwidth) theme to Roller if requested.

Posted in General at Jun 21 2003, 11:07:44 PM MDT Add a Comment

Westword Music Showcase...

... on a beautiful Saturday afternoon.

... on a beautiful Saturday afternoon.

Posted in General at Jun 21 2003, 11:06:44 PM MDT Add a Comment

[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?

Posted in General at Jun 19 2003, 09:52:21 PM MDT 2 Comments

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.

Red Rocks

Posted in General at Jun 19 2003, 04:57:33 PM MDT Add a Comment

Pictures from White Ranch Yesterday

Nice Single Track

Jodie on the single track.

My Gary Fisher Sugar 3+

My Sugar Momma.

The Hill

Tony on "The Hill."

Posted in General at Jun 18 2003, 06:48:33 AM MDT 5 Comments

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.

Beautiful Ladies
Beautiful Ladies

Hope y'all have a good one!

Posted in General at Jun 15 2003, 08:59:01 AM MDT 2 Comments

Wiki Improvements

I made a few wiki improvements today. Most notably was upgrading to the latest and greatest cvs snapshot (2.1.38-cvs). Yeah, that's right, I like to run all the beta or in-cvs software =80). Call me silly, but I'm doing it because I want the latest features (i.e. XHTML syntax and an RSS Feed) and I want to keep up-to-date as possible. It actually works quite well, and I'm in the midst of making my Redman theme into a contribution for JSPWiki. I still have lots of improvements to make, but it is currently in it's own templates directory.

New today - a short howto for configuring Tiles' definitions to include certain .css and .js files on a page-by-page basis. Also, thanks to Dave for the press!

Posted in General at Jun 14 2003, 07:24:19 PM MDT

The Hogback

During our 3.5 hour ride yesterday.

During our 3.5 hour ride yesterday.

Posted in General at Jun 14 2003, 01:47:34 PM MDT Add a Comment