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 Mozilla Foundation has released Mozilla 1.5. I don't really have any reasons to use Mozilla anymore because of Firebird, but since Mozilla Firebird depends on the same core as Mozilla - I suppose this is good for me. I wonder if it means that Firebird and Camino will have new releases soon?
Web Standards Guru Zeldman has re-designed and relaunched the best web standards webzine available today (IMO, of course):
Ladies and gentlemen, A List Apart 3.0. The magazine has been redesigned from front to back. It features three XML feeds and three new articles by three of our favorite writers: Joe Clark on Facts and Opinion About Fahrner Image Replacement; Douglas Bowman on Sliding Doors of CSS; Dan Benjamin on Random Image Rotation. Much more. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]
Good stuff - there's a nice tabs article and XML Feeds for your favorite aggregator.
Because now everyone in the office (regardless of PC or Mac) can listen to each others music libraries. Can you say 100 GB of music?!
I've been using Safari as my primary web browser since I bought my new PowerBook. This evening I decided to try a nightly build of Camino and see how things are coming along. I was delighted to find out that my twisty comments now work in Camino (not so in Safari).
Camino's nightly build does have some issues though - both are things that used to work just fine on this site. One is that the search input field has a purple background (matching it's containing <div>). The second quirk is that the textarea box in Roller's Weblog -> Edit page is shifted to the right - seems something is amiss with floats (it's to the right of my "Validate as XML" checkbox). Even with these little quirks, it's still a great browser.
This post from Zeldman makes me glad I don't use any plug-ins in the web applications I develop. I think that Flash is very cool, but now I'm glad I don't use it.
Russ reminds us why Web Standards are cool:
From Zeldman which I just recently added to my aggregator, I just saw this great awesome article on how the XHTML/CSS design was created for the new Lee Jeans - One True Fit website.
The overview is short and to the point and gives links to all the
tricks used on the page to get the design desired. Adding ?style=false
to any of the page's urls will show the non-css markup. The difference
is astounding. I'm more and more amazed at the power of a good designer
and CSS every day.
This article is very elegant in explaining how CSS and XHTML can simplify your life. I'm a huge fan of web standards and (luckily) have been able to convince most teams/clients to use them in the past couple of years. Just to remind you how easy it is to write XHTML, check out the New York Public Library's XHTML Guidelines.
On a related topic, I've had a few folks ask for my wiki's theme recently. So here it is. Enjoy!
Kenneth Hunt (via Erik) hooks us up with a link to Mozilla Firebird Extensions. I tried to install one of my favorite Mozilla extensions - Autoform. No dice - Not a valid installer package. Damn.
If you have a secure server setup like I do, I think you'll find that WinSCP (Windows) will make your life much easier.
Did you know you can use try/catch blocks in JavaScript? It's pretty slick and makes it easy to hide those ugly JavaScript errors. There is an article over at Dev Shed that explains how you can use the new Error object and the "try-catch" constructs to trap and resolve errors. Good stuff!
Found a cool site today from Alexa.com (an Amazon company). It gives detailed
info on your site such as traffic rank, other sites that link to yours, speed and "online since." Here's my details - looks like I need to speed things up a bit:
Speed: Very Slow (7th percentile)
