Matt RaibleMatt Raible is a Web Developer and Java Champion. 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.

For book updates, follow @angular_book on Twitter.

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.

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.

New RAM has Arrived!

There's nothing like receiving 512 MB of new RAM and then not being able to install it because you can't find a screwdriver small enough to unscrew the bottom of your PowerBook! My advice - buy the screwdriver before you buy the RAM.

Posted in Mac OS X at Oct 16 2003, 08:55:56 AM MDT 3 Comments

512 MB is not enough for Java Development

At least not on my PowerBook (1.33 GHz) - good thing another 512 is on the way!

Load Avg:  0.98, 0.98, 0.98     CPU usage:  20.9% user, 17.8% sys, 61.2% idle                       
SharedLibs: num =   81, resident = 18.4M code, 1.27M data, 2.78M LinkEdit                           
MemRegions: num = 11097, resident =  295M + 4.59M private,  116M shared                             
PhysMem:  63.3M wired,  291M active,  149M inactive,  504M used, 8.28M free

Posted in Mac OS X at Oct 15 2003, 01:35:53 PM MDT 3 Comments

OS X Rocks, but it sucks too

OS X is awesome ~ it's beautiful to look at and it's based on Unix. What more could you ask for? Windows XP looks good, RedHat 9 doesn't. Windows XP with Cygwin is almost tollerable, but you still have to type "cd c:" when you want to change drives. What bugs me about OS X is simple *nix things don't work on it. Integrating Apache + Tomcat is a 5 minute job on WinXP and RH 9, but I've spent the at least 10 hours trying to do it on OS X with no luck. I could post the errors here, but what good would it do? This kind of stuff just works on RH 9 and WinXP. Therefore, OS X sucks!

What am I ranting for? No reason really - it just sucks that I've spent so much time trying to do something that still doesn't work. This HowTo didn't help either (building from source had errors, no binary of Apache available). I guess this is all due to the fact that OS X has a 1% (maybe 2%) market share among developers?

Posted in Mac OS X at Oct 12 2003, 06:54:12 PM MDT 13 Comments

Panther for $21.39

Thanks to James' Tip I just purchased OS X 10.3 for a mere $21.39 (1.44 in taxes). Thanks to James for the tip and thank you Apple for recognizing my new purchase.

Update: I've heard that some people were unable to do this. I got an error when I first tried it - removing the dash (-) in my serial number fixed the problem.

Posted in Mac OS X at Oct 09 2003, 10:54:49 AM MDT 5 Comments

Panther coming in 14 days

I don't mind paying $129 bucks to speed up my Mac - but this image is too good to pass up.

Panther Coming...

Posted in Mac OS X at Oct 08 2003, 11:00:12 AM MDT 4 Comments

Interesting shortcut keys in Safari

I discovered these by accident tonight. By holding down the "Apple" key (or whatever the hell its called) and pressing a number in Safari - it'll open that respective bookmark. So I have vi Reference as my first bookmark, and Apple is second. Apple+1 open vi reference, Apple+2 opens apple.com. Doubt I'll use it much, but interesting to know.

Posted in Mac OS X at Oct 03 2003, 09:51:46 PM MDT Add a Comment

VersionTracker - free with .Mac

I got an e-mail from Apple today. In it, they offered me a free version of VersionTracker. I signed up - why not, it's free? I don't know that I'll use it though. The reason I'm writing this post is to see if anyone else is using this service, and if so, whaddya think? What software packages do you watch?

Posted in Mac OS X at Sep 30 2003, 05:36:07 PM MDT 1 Comment

New Powerbooks ~ I agree with James

I agree with James about the new PowerBooks. My 17" simply rocks. I do have to disagree on one point though - it's actually not that hot. It seems to run much cooler than my 15" 667MHz.

Posted in Mac OS X at Sep 24 2003, 10:46:00 PM MDT 1 Comment

Why Intuit Sucks

Intuit, the maker of QuickBooks and Quicken, does not make good OS X software. Why? Because it can't read the Window's versions of its files. I bought Quicken so we could edit our Quicken files with our Macs, as we currently do with our PCs (data file is stored on Linux). To edit our Quicken files on the Mac, we have to export a QIF file from Quicken/Win and then import on Quicken/Mac. Good thing I wasted my money on a Windows version of Quicken and a Mac version - since I'll obviously only be able to use one.

Same goes for QuickBooks - if you want to edit your Windows-created QuickBooks file on a Mac, you must export/import. That just sucks! Intuit - have you ever heard of this company called Microsoft? They seemed to have no problems making their software read files created by either platform - maybe you should take a lesson from them.

Posted in Mac OS X at Sep 23 2003, 05:27:11 AM MDT 14 Comments

What is the fastest way to transfer data between PowerBooks?

In order to be a good husband, now that I've given my old laptop to Julie, I need to transfer all my files, settings, etc. from my old PowerBook to my new one. What's the fastest way to do this? I'm guessing Firewire or something like that. Do the Apple Retail outlets sell anything?

Posted in Mac OS X at Sep 22 2003, 12:18:19 PM MDT 6 Comments