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
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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.
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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.
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I found another tasty treat on Ken Bereskin's Radio Weblog:
Today's feature: FTP servers mount in the Finder. Go to the Connect to Server... command in the Finder and type in a valid ftp URL (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org for example). Voila, the server is available as a mounted, read-only volume.
I stumbled upon All OS X while looking for a good screen capture utility for OS X. There, I found the following lovely tidbit:
With Mac OS X v10.2, you now have yet another option for capturing
screen shots. To review, here are the two options you’re probably already familiar with: | 1. | Type Command-Shift-3 to take a screen shot of your entire screen. |
| 2. | Type Command-Shift-4 and Mac OS X presents you with crosshairs you can use to select whatever portion of your display you’d like to capture in a screen shot. |
And here’s the new option: |
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| 3. | Immediately hit the spacebar after typing Command-Shift-4. Instead of crosshairs, you’ll see a little camera. Move the camera around to highlight the Dock, the menu bar, the desktop, or any open window. Then just click the mouse button to “snap” a screen shot. In fact, with this option, you can entirely eliminate the desktop when you capture a screen shot of an individual window. |
Here's proof that it actually works. It's pretty cool how it just puts a PDF on your desktop and then you can use Preview (the application) to export to almost any image format, including Photoshop. I really dig this - I'd love a similar "feature" on XP and Red Hat 8.0.
I found this gem off scripting.com a few minutes ago:
Apple VP Ken Bereskin explains a new Mac OS X feature every day on his Radio weblog. #
I just discovered that I can drag-n-drop all the vCards I exported from Outlook XP into Entourage's Address Book. So it's actually very simple for me to synch my Mac and Phone up with my main contacts repository on Windows XP. I'd love to be able to change contact's information in both Address Book or Entourage (or Outlook) and be able to synch them all - but I'll settle for making all my changes in Outlook for now.
I called the local Apple store tonight to see if they had any Bluetooth USB adapters in stock. They did (sweet). So I cancelled the Mac/PC Bluetooth adapter I've had on order for over 5 weeks from CDW. While on the phone, I asked if the guy if he knew of a way to export my contacts from Outlook XP -> Entourage -> Address Book. He said I should check out www.macosxhints.com. So I did, and with a quick search on Outlook, whalla - I found Outport which allows you to export all your contacts as vCards. Then Apple's Address Book allows you to import vCards - so now all my contacts are synched up. Too bad Entourage doesn't appear to be as easy to synchronize. In fact, the only method seems to be exporting from Outlook as CSV and importing using a script from http://www.applescriptcentral.com/. I guess M$ doesn't want you to migrate anything from Outlook to Entourage - but what if I just want to "share?" I also found some good general hints on using Entourage.
Earlier today, I discovered Inbox Buddy from The FuzzyBlog!. I downloaded and installed in about 30 seconds - very cool - it's working for me so far. It's takes a little while (est. 15 minutes) to setup, but it's nice to see only the important e-mails at the top of your inbox, and all the spam get shoved to the bottom.
I did manage to stop by the Apple Store tonight and pick up the bluetooth usb adapter, and now I can iSynch my T68i with my Address book - I love it!
I'm using the latest version of Chimera, and it's AWESOME. If you have OS X, and are running Mozilla, switch to Chimera (since it is Mozilla), it has the glass-style buttons, drop-downs, etc. - and it's fast! And it's only version 0.5 - which means it'll only get better. I've used it since 0.3 and it's quickly becoming my favorite browser.
OK, I got the transparent dock feature to work using ClearDock 1.1. How you ask? I rebooted.
I'll probably be the first one to express disappoitment in the latest Mac OS X version. I received it in the mail yesterday and upgraded from 10.1.5 to 10.2 last night. The install was cake, and much smoother than any windows install/upgrade I've ever done, and definitely easier than Linux. However, I ran into a couple issues after I had everything installed.
I spent about an hour total trying to get the above problems solved - except for the Eclipse one, I just said, "yikes!" and left that one alone. All in all, I'm sure if I'd done a clean install vs. an upgrade, all of the above would not be an issue. I know I would never do an upgrade on a Windows machine, always a clean install. So I'm happy with the upgrade, just hoping for too much probably. I expected a lot more from the rave reviews it's been getting, but again, since I use it about 8 minutes per day - I probably wouldn't notice any sexy new features anyway.
In other Apple news, I had to boot into OS 9 at one point last night when hacking Dave - and WHOA - that OS screams! No wonder folks are having a hard time migrating to OS X. It's so fast and snappy that I almost "switched" to using OS 9 as my primary OS!
I'm having some problems getting a "UserTransaction" to work in a Struts Action on Tomcat 4.0.4 in OS X with JDK 1.3. The same code works fine on Windows XP/Red Hat Linux 7.2-.3 with JDK 1.4. Maybe it's a JDK 1.3 issue? Any suggestions/tips are appreciated.
