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.
Dave did a little work this weekend and came up with a new theme for his website. I'd describe it as "metal" and looks pretty cool to me! One suggestion, you might want to make that background wider. I use a 1280 x 1024 resolution and the background repeats itself. The real question is - did you have fun doing it? I always enjoy creating new themes or re-styling a site.
Scott Andrew provides us some DHTML Menu love - using a little DOM action and <ul>'s. The beauty of these is that they will work just fine in older browsers - just like a regular list.
Dave Lindquist has taken this same basic concept one step further with these awesome DHTML menus. Both the dropdown and expandable tree variations are simple lists built with 100% valid XHTML. CSS and DOM scripting are added to extend the functionality. Dave even goes so far as to use ACCESSKEY attributes to make parts of the menu accessible via keyboard shortcuts. The result is a more widely accessible menu that doesn't sacrifice the whiz-bang functionality of DHTML. Try turning off the CSS rules (with a handy "Toggle CSS" bookmarklet) while viewing the menu demos and you'll see a plain, fully-accessible list. Better yet, run it through Delorie's LynxViewer to get an idea of how a non-graphical browser would handle it. Sweet.
I made the switch today to using Phoenix as my default browser on Windows, and I discovered a sweet feature! When you have tabs visible, double click in the tab bar and it'll open a new (blank) tab for you. Doesn't appear to work on Mozilla (1.2b).
Phoenix 0.4 is now available. This release features type ahead find and improvements to the address bar, tabbed browsing, toolbar customization, popup blocking, themes, and more. Downloading now...
Joe Clarkâs Building Accessible Websites is now shipping. I was one of the technical editors for this book; having read it thoroughly, twice, I can assure you that it is the most comprehensive and most well-written web accessibility book in existence. Every web designer should read it. If you can only afford one web accessibility book, buy Joeâs book. (If you can afford two, buy Joeâs book and Jimâs book, reviewed here.) [dive into mark]
Since I'm a web designer (bold added by me), I've added this book to My Wish List at Amazon. I will buy and read after I've finished the Photoshop Bible, Photoshop Classroom in a Book and JSTL in Action. Maybe. I might also just choose to read the next Harry Potter to my daughter instead.
Scott Andrew lists his favorite CSS Designs and also points out some great CSS templates. This site got its original CSS inspiration from glish.com and I've also used Blue Robot's techniques on my current project.
What does Google think of you? It's pretty acurate on it's impression of me and my company.
I passed a test today to become a Certified Dreamweaver MX Developer. I got an e-mail from Macromedia a few months ago, looked at the sample questions (PDF) and figured, what the heck. The sample questions looked so easy (basic HTML stuff) that I didn't even study. After the first 5 questions on the test, I was shittin' bricks since most questions where related to Dreamweaver and such things as the Asset Panel. I use Dreamweaver a fair amount, but only as an HTML editor, and I hardly ever use the advanced features. So when I encountered a bunch of questions about how to do such and such in Dreamweaver, I just answered with a WAG. I thought for sure I was going to fail - but I passed!
If you're a web developer and are constantly looking for good backgrounds, fonts, or icons on the web, check out http://www.grsites.com. They have a ton (4,300+) backgrounds that will tile seemlessly on your web page. If you know of any others, let me know.
There is a new (beta) version of the XHTML Validator at the W3C. This new version offers a much needed improvement - explanations on why things don't validate, rather than cryptic error messages. This site is not validating mostly because of the bookmarklets - looks like a good 1/2 hour to fix if I do it now (from the library). I'll wait until I get home and have a good HTML Editor to assist me.
