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.
Spotted in the blogging jungle - Dave Hyatt - apparently a Safari and Phoenix developer. What a guy huh?! Thanks for Phoenix Dave - I love it! If you can get Safari to have all of Chimera's features (give me tabs!), I'll use it. I love Phoenix and have completely abandoned IE after being a die-hard IE user for years.
I just typed up a huge long post about Julie and I's car-shopping experience yesterday, and just as I was about to hit submit, Phoenix crashed! Friggen browser. It crashes a fair amount too, just never when I had a page worth of data ready to go. I did get a screen shot of about half of it though, so I'll attempt to reproduce it tomorrow. Sucks though - Mozilla and IE never crash, maybe it's time to go back.
I can't seem to get the border-collapse property to work on my tables. Basically, I should be able to specify a border and border-collapse: collapse on a table and this border will be applied to all cells. But I can't get it to work - any ideas? Here's an example:
<table width="300"
style="border: 1px solid black; border-collapse: collapse">
<tr>
<th> </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>this cell should have a top border<td>
</tr>
</table>
And here's that same table without the HTML escaped:
| this cell should have a top border |
It's no fun to work all day on a Saturday. It's even less fun when java.blogs is out of commission. I did a little research and while atlassian.com is still up, most of the JIRA instances for open source projects (i.e. Roller, XDoclet) is down. It appears (via ping-analysis) that the OSS JIRA instances are hosted on the same server as java.blogs. Since I'm getting a ping reply from this server, I'm assuming the servlet container is down and everyone in AUS is partying it up all weekend. I hope it's fixed when they get back to the office on Monday. That's Sunday for us right?
Saw this on Amazon.com today. YOu can get Norton Internet Security for a measly $5 after rebates - now that's a deal! The shipping will probably cost you more. A good gift for your techy friends that use Windows.
I've added a Christmas Tree to this site to decorate a little for the holidays. Hope you don't mind. Like all new additions, I had to make room for it and adjust some margins so it didn't hide behind anything. Feel free to steal it if you like. The CSS to make it a background is available with a good ol' Ctrl+U. You should be glad this is all I did - the first one I tried was animated... Happy
Holidaze! 
I feel obliged to report on security in web applications now I've written a chapter on it. DevX has an article on how to Set Up a Certificate Authority for Java-based Systems. Along the same topic of security, Lance sent me this humorous story about a hotshot security manager.
Matt Croydon (yeah, I can't spell your last name either ;-) is the 45th Matt on Google. I'm at #213, hopefully all the Matt's in this post will boost my rankings. BTW, did you know you can adjust your preferences in Google to show more than just 10 records per page? Kinda handy for silly searches like this.
Here's one to bookmark, the random text generator. As Zeldman says,
On some corporate sites, Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit would be an improvement over the actual copy.
Dave Watson has one of the coolest photo albums I've seen yet. And how does Kurt Eastwood make these images so sharp. Oh yeah, and he's got a nice photo album too. Those are some nice pictures - especially for the web! Can my images be this sharp? Is iPhoto making them look bad and I just need to use Photoshop to trim for the web?