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.
The RSSiCal converter appears to be what I've been looking for. I'd like to duplicate Roller's Big Calendar feature, but give it the look and feel of an iCal. When I run my rss feed through this tool, I get a bunch of text output (using IE 5.0/Win). I'd love a way to convert to the Aqua-fied look and feel on the fly.
Marc Liyanage has created a nice list of things to help your average OS X user. At the very bottom, it even supplies the color ls that I was looking for!
For you developers that use OS X, you've probably heard of Marc before, he gives us great installers for all kinds of goodies, ranging from MySQL to VIM, and even provides instructions on getting Apache setup with SSL on Mac OS X.
I found the community blog of Forwarding Address: OS X this afternoon, which appears to be maintained and updated by 17 different bloggers. A pretty cool idea and (hopefully) a reason for frequent updates, to satisfy my blog-reading addiction. I discovered a whole bunch of goodies:
If any of you are eagerly awaiting my Wiki Review (I doubt it), I haven't forgot about it - just lost motivation for it. No need == no motivation.
Allen Denison, Java Product Manager at Apple has just sent an email to their java-dev mailing list announcing the availability of a Java 1.4.1 Developer Preview. This preview is available to all ADC members and can be downloaded from the "Download Software" section of the ADC web site. [via MacSlash]
Happy Day! Downloading now...
You gotta check this out whether you're a Mac user or not, it's a good laugh. Found via Zeldman.
Unrelated to any of the above, an Apple âswitchâ flick that thinks different is now making the rounds. A second copy is available on another server. No doubt many copies are available on many servers, though perhaps not for long. Thanks: Dori Smith and Todd Fahrner.
The most annoying thing about my Mac (G4 Titanium Powerbook) is that it only has 1-button on it's built-in mouse. This is especially annoying because I can plug in a two-button mouse and it is recognized and usable by OS X. Why didn't they include a 2-button mouse by default? My wife (a very savvy Windows user) hates it so much she refuses to use my laptop.
This morning, I found an article (via MyAppleMenu) about Apple's history with the one button mouse and the possible move to a 2-button mouse.
So while Appleâs decision to go with a single button was one of the many choices that made the original Mac such a groundbreaking machine, itâs time for Apple to reconsider.
Longtime Mac devotees may disagree, but an official Apple two-button, scroll wheel-equipped mouse has, in fact, no apparent drawbacks. [1 Button, 2 Or 3?]
The Archive Install completed in record time on Thursday night (something like 45 mintues). However, it didn't fix my problem. So I created a new user (matt vs. mraible) and that fixed the problem. So I'm still in the process of moving everything from /Users/mraible to /Users/matt. I can't seem to remove the old mraible directory through the normal means - so I might be in the mood for a full clean install shortly. Why not? I've done it on every other OS I use. This is just another reason to get OS X certified, then I'll know how to fix these types of issues.
So I went to the meeting tonight in Boulder at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Very cool location, although I felt like I was driving into the boonies. It's about an hour from my house, and since I never commute (home office), I didn't mind the drive. Interesting demographic that showed up: about 5 Gen-Xers, most folks were between 30 and 50 and a fair amount over 60. Lots of seniors and about half women. Very different from what you see at Java User Group meetings. The people were very friendly, though it did have somewhat of a cult-ish atmosphere. Boy do some folks hate Microsoft. I like Microsoft, and Red Hat and Apple. If I could only use one OS, I'd use M$, but I prefer using all of the above.
The first presenter showed us his cool site of the week. Another great flash site that you i-hate-flash folks might actually like. The second guy was a Photoshop Guru and gave good tips on using layers and combining images. Stuff I'll definitely use.
I managed to sneak out without paying the $25 and no one asked me too. I'm thinking about asking them if they want a new website, their current one is sooo 1990s. Maybe one running on Roller (with the Aqua theme?) - now that would be cool. That brings up another point - my favorite thing about Roller that I realized today? That I get to write HTML, actually XHTML, every-single-day. I dig it 'cause I dig writing XHTML. It's how I got into this industry, and it's nice to be doing something so familiar every day. Some folks don't seem to like it so much.
I did ask if anyone could solve my Mac problems on Mini-me (my laptop's name). A guy in the front row asked if I'd installed any fonts recently, and if so, that was probably my problem. Since I installed 471 of them two days ago, I figured that must be it. So I removed them - dragging them to Trash from the /Library/Fonts folder. Didn't seem to work and everything seems to be getting much worse (applications not opening, no folders under "Computer"). So I made the leap and I'm in the process of re-installing OS X 10.2 right now. I did the Archive Install and elected to preserve my user settings. I hope it works - it sucks to lose data. Then again, I really don't use Mini-me that much, so if I lose everything, oh well. I've learned many things re-installing OS's - most often what NOT to do again. Hopefully this time Apple has made the re-install fool developer-proof.
I lost the panel on the top right of my menu bar where my time, display and airport properties is usually displayed. It's not there, gone - I've rebooted several times with no luck. Any ideas?
I think I'll attend the COMUG meeting tomorrow night. Here are the details:
The Photoshop Tips is the primary reason I'm thinking of attending. The only bad part seems to be that they charge $25 to attend (a.k.a be a member), see the membership application (PDF) for proof.
