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
- 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!
- Happy Birthday, Abbie!
- Happy Birthday, Jack!
- Farewell to the 2023-2024 Ski Season
- My Marvelous Road Trip to the Utah JUG
- A Delightful Trip to Devnexus
- Funemployment 2024
RE: Roller Feeds
As reported by Matt and Russ (via e-mail), my RSS Feed had some issues. Moments after receiving Russ's e-mail, I shot an e-mail to the roller-dev team. Dave fixed the problem, I updated my site - and my feed is fixed. Thanks to all that discovered and repaired - you guys rock!
New Computer Contemplations
I'm thinking of getting a new computer. I currently have two Dell Dimension 8100's (1.5 GHz). One runs Windows XP and has 1 GB of RAM. The other, Red Hat 9 with 768 MB RAM. The reason I want a new one is that it's tough to ignore the performance increase from a faster CPU on my work machine, a Dell OptiPlex GX260 (2 GHz, 512 MB RAM). Also, my Dimensions are 2 years old and that's about the end life for a computer these days (if you're a developer that prefers Windows like me).
So the question is: Can I combine my two 8100's into a kick-ass Linux box. It has dual-processor capabilities (1 GB max RAM though) and I'm wondering if the performance increase is that significant. Is it easy to do?
What will I get next? I'm thinking about a Dell Laptop. Don't know which one, but I've never skimped on price (I have a PowerBook), so performance and wireless are the most important. Suggestions are encouraged. I like Dell because their customer service rocks - whenever anything has broken/failed on my machine, they've come out to my house within 48 hours and fixed it. This has only happened once (video card went bad).
Why don't I just get a new PowerBook? Because they're slow - especially for Java. And I'm slow on a PowerBook. Windows keyboard shortcuts are imbedded in my brain and I can easily get something done twice as fast on Windows as I can on a Mac. Java tools work best on Windows and Linux. I have to give it to Apple that Java client apps run best on a Mac, but I'm not developing those, or using those, so who cares. Actually, what I'd like to do is run Red Hat as the primary OS and run VMWare with Windows XP. VMWare is very fast and IMHO works just as well as a dual-boot machine. Unlike Virtual PC, which is slower than molasses in January.
Today was a good day
Today I woke up at 6:00 and met a friend in Castle Rock (south of Denver). We were up early to ride our mountain bikes in the Elephant Rock ride. We did the 26-mile Canyon Course, which was mostly pavement and dirt roads. It was much easier than the some of the single tracks in the foothills. I live in the foothills and it's only about 10 miles to some of the best mountain bike riding in the country - right in my backyard! It rocks. So we finished the ride in 2.5 hours, had a beer and then the storm hit. The temperature dropped about 20 degrees in 15 minutes, the rain came down in sheets, and the wind picked up to about 10-20 miles/hour. We were done, and very happy about that. A lot of people were still our riding in it. I actually know a couple of folks - it'll be interesting to see there take on it later this week.
After escaping the storm, I drove home, dropped my bike off for a tune-up (I had to bribe the guy with a 12er to get it done so I can commute this week) and played with Abbie for most of the afternoon (Mom slept after being up with her all last night - she's teething). We just got back from an hour walk, and I can her (Abbie) waking up from her nap in the other room, so I'd better go.
RE: Listen to RSS feeds on your iPod
Damn, after reading e-mail and blogs for the last couple of hours, I'm slowly starting to create a list of things to do. Life is so much slower and easier without a computer! Anyway, it looks like I have all the equipment to listen to RSS feeds on my iPod. I'm also thinking of downloading books from Audible.com and learning on my way to work, rather than simply listening to music. BTW, I got Mini-Me back today (after sending it to Apple) - they fixed the hinge, but not the loose case.