Please oh please let it be true.
I found a station that might play Mark and Brian (don't knock it 'till you try it) - we'll see tomorrow morning! It's been SOOOO long since I've heard them... please oh please let it be true! [ Listen Now ]
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
My Perspective on Blogging
I found this via Blogging Roller: are you addicted to blogging? I would be if I had better things to say, and I knew people were listening. One reason I recently did this site as a blog, rather than the old site, is because I *liked* reading people's blogs on the web. So now this is a blog, will it get me any new clients? I don't know - probably moreso than the last site.
As one friend asked me, "Who is your target audience?" I told him it was folks like me - developers who are interested in reading about what other developers have to say. The one problem is that if I ever get a client that stumbles upon this site, they might not know what the heck my company does. But, I would have to say that this new site explains what I do a lot better than my old site.
The absolute best part about blogging is when someone else notices that you have something interesting to say, and puts a link on their site. It's like getting an article written about you in the local paper. 
On Vacation.
I'm outa here, to return next week. I'll be enjoying myself in other parts of the country.
Java Winamp-like music player via Web Start.
I stumbled upon this cool little app today by way of rebelutionary.
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Checkout JLGui - it's a Web Start enabled, Winamp skin compatible music player that supports MP3, Ogg, WAV and a bunch of other formats. In native Java. Now that is cool.
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I agree!
Music to code by.
If you enjoy listening to music while coding all day, I recommend downloading Rhapsody. It allows you to listen to pre-programmed "radio stations" for free - helps me cope with the fact that I can't listen to Mark and Brian via KGON and the internet anymore.
I got the phone
a couple of days ago, and I love it! It's a GSM phone, and I don't know if they're all this way, but it sounds clearer than my home phone. It almost sounds like I'm in the same room as someone when I'm talking to them. This is a big plus for me as I've always been annoyed by the bad sound of my previous phones.
I can check my raibledesigns.com e-mail using the IMAP4 protocol, and I can also check my Yahoo! Mail anywhere I can get a signal. Very cool - helps to cure my e-mail addiction. I hooked it up to my Powerbook G4 via infrared with GSM Remote and was able to have all my contact's numbers in almost no time.
Cool New Gadget.
I'm planning on purchasing the new Sony Ericsson T68i phone in the next week or so. I like it because of it's Bluetooth support and the fact that I can iSync it up with my Contacts, and check my e-mail via IMAP while I'm on the road. Anyone with knowledge of a Bluetooth adapter for Windows XP, please let me know. And it's always important to get new gadgets before you attend a big conference right? Especially when the conference is in Las Vegas.
What I did last week
I didn't work on my current project with OnPoint Digital, Inc., but rather attended an iPlanet Portal Bootcamp at Sun. It was a week long 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. class, where I learned a ton about Portal, in hopes of teaching a Portal class in the future. Sun calls these classes T3's for Train-The-Trainer, so I am now certified to teach iPlanet Portal 3.0. I'm more interested in Sun ONE Portal 6.0 - so hopefully this will help me get lined up to teach that.
I attended the class with Martin Gee, and Michael Zucker; two good friends from ICSynergy. Martin recently published a book on iPlanet Application Server, and it looks really good. I browsed through my signed copy and it's got a lot of great information on developing J2EE apps. It's too bad iPlanet has gotten bad press from developers, because it really it really is a good product if you know all it's qwirks. I've used it since it was Netscape Application Server 2.1, so I got to learn all the qwirks the hard way. Hopefully Sun ONE Application Server will be a lot better.
New Theme Enhancements
I added a slick "theme-switcher" last night. In the bottom-right corner, you will see a couple choices: Navy Blue or Tropical. Click on a choice to switch the colors/images on this page.