Colors that hurt
This java.blog seems to have some good content, but the author's use of colors hurts my eyes. It it worth reading when it causes pain?
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
Phoenix Tips and Tricks
From Matt Croydon:
The Phoenix Tips and Tricks site is a must-visit if you're running Phoenix. The page rendering speedup makes zippy Phoenix even zippier.
I'll visit when I have more time, looks cool!
Naples 0.5 Released!
The latest release of Naples (formely known as Phoenix) has now been released. I liked the name Phoenix better than Naples - what are the developers trying to imply? Life is better in Arizona or Florida? Downloading now...
This release features the ability to have multiple homepages and support for five-button mice, and fixes a number of bugs that plagued earlier releases. It is also the smallest and fastest Phoenix to date.
Oh yeah - it's faster all right!
Day 2 of Writing: Security Chapter
I need a good article or book to quote regarding HTTPS versus HTTP performance. I know that HTTPS is slower than HTTP, but I'd like some hard numbers if any of your fellas know of any. Today's been interesting, I feel like I've been writing all day, but I've only managed to get about 3-4 pages done. Damn...
The frustrating part is that I have to qualify everything and remember back to when I first started messing with security in web applications, when I first configured SSL in Tomcat, when I first tried to get form-based authentication on iPlanet (what a CF that was)! I'm hoping the audience for this book is fairly J2EE-fluent, but I feel that there are probably going to be a fair amount of newbies as well. It'd be interesting to write a book for the java.bloggers community. I could skip half the fluff and get right to the stuff - the actual code!
Oh well, tomorrow should be better, I'll be adding/verifying code examples, and divulging all the cool tricks I've learned over the years. I've been doing all this authoring on OS X, and I have to say it's been an enjoyable experience. iTunes cranked, a set of nice Sony (MDR-V600) headphones and enough caffeine (not to mention deadline-adrenaline) to stunt Abbie's growth.
Phoenix gets faster
Brett hooked me up with this:
Make Phoenix Even Faster. Gleemed from the Phoenix forum again, comes this tip from mfk: Adding the line: user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0); to your user.js file makes Phoenix render pages very fast. Try it out. It's kinda eerie seeing Mozilla go this fast. laszlo provides the explanation of why in this post: Gecko normally delays the... [Blogzilla - a blog about Mozilla]
On my system, it's named prefs.js and it's located in
{user.home}\Application Data\Phoenix\Profiles\{user.name}\{random-text}.slt\.
Now Phoenix is faster to open than IE on my XP box!
Uh Oh - Mozilla 1.2 Not Good
From mozilla.org:
Stop The Presses We've discovered a bug in Mozilla 1.2 that can cause DHTML on some sites to fail. We plan to release Mozilla 1.2.1 with a fix shortly.
You gotta love 1) that they admit this, 2) that they notify us and 3) that they will fix it soon.
text-align: justify
Zeldman inspires me to justify the content on this site. I think it's looking better already. Now I just need to start writing longer posts (like Russ) to justify this change.
Browser/Plugin Detection Scripts
I found some great scripts tonight at dithered.com - hope of the now infamous GetContentSize tool. I'll be using these scripts to detect browser plugins for my current project - i.e. QuickTime and Flash + required versions.
validator.w3.org
The W3C has revamped it's HTML Validation service and it shall be known as the MarkUp Validation Service from now on. I stumbled upon is when validating this site. It's now got a tip-of-the-day and links to all the different specs and associated services (i.e. CSS Validation). For you reading pleasure, here's a complete list of what's new.
Mozilla 1.2 Final?
MacUpdate reports that Mozilla 1.2 Final has been released - even though it's located in the nightly build area of the site. I'll wait until the announcement is posted on mozilla.org, but just in case you're impatient. [Download]