The Angular Mini-Book is a
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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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For the most part, both GMail and Firefox rock. However, when you're typing a long e-mail in GMail and you hit Ctrl+R instead of Ctrl+T, it really sucks. Rather than opening a new tab, I lost my whole e-mail message. Damn. Maybe it's time to go back to the desktop client. I've lost a few e-mails with GMail, but I don't think I've ever lost one with Outlook or Thunderbird. I guess it's time to setup GMail's POP3 access.
It started yesterday and continues today. GMail is no longer filtering out spam - I'm getting it all. This means if I leave my computer and check my e-mail a couple hours later - I'm up to 200 new messages, with 1 or 2 that are actually sent to me - the rest are spam. Anyone else experience this GMail meltdown?
I've started a small revolution among my friends and family. I'm on a mission to take back the web. If they own a computer and they don't have Firefox installed, it will be soon. I'm recommending it to everyone, b/c people often ask me for advice for their computer's problems. Here's how our conversation usually goes:
Them: I'm having an issue with viruses, spyware, AOL, etc.
Me: You should use Firefox.
Them: Oh really, what's that?
Me: An internet browser. It's a lot better than Internet Explorer.
Them: OK, how much does it cost?
Me: It's free, download it from firefox.com.
Them: Cool, thanks for the tip.
This happens if their computer isn't nearby. If it is, I'll download and install it for them. I did this on Holly's machine last night. After showing her the tabbed browsing and she was pumped. Of course, hooking her up to a wireless network for the first time probably had something to do with her enthusiasm.
Even if IE adds tabbed browsing, I don't think there's any hope for it now. The web feel so much more solid when using Firefox. When I use IE, it feels brittle and ready to break. Have you started taking back the web with your family and friends?
From the Aspect Log (which is mighty nice BTW), I found CSS Beauty. Very cool - CSS is the bomb. Subscribed.
From Niel:
While I'm confident in my web-based application development skills, I really suck at web design. Fortunately there is Open Source Web Design which provides hundreds of web designs to help people like me. Most of the recent entries are CSS-based designs that show-off the power of CSS.
I suck at web design too, so I dig sites like this. The CSS Zen Garden is another great resource. Their designes are free for non-commercial use. If you contact the designers, you might get permission to use them like I did.
While digging through my stats today, I found a site that's sucking off my bandwidth: http://laptops.inreview.com. Not only are they using one of my pictures from this post, but they're simply linking to my site - rather than copying the image locally. Those bastards! ;-)
I've sent them an e-mail, let's hope they have the courtesy to remove my image. I wonder how many other images of mine are being used on the web?
I realize that if I put up an image on this site, it's likely to be copied and used on another site. I don't really care so much about that - but I would appreciate an e-mail asking permission, as well as the decency to copy the image to your local server.
Chris has a nice post with links to online color pickers. After looking at them, ColorMatch Remix seems to be the best one. Of course, ColorMatch's inspiration looks pretty good too.
A List Apart has a new article on how to make CSS Drop Shadows that work in IE. The first article shows how to do it for all the other browsers. I dig the technique, so I've decided to use it on this site. To add it, all I did was add the following to the <head> of this page:
<style type="text/css">
div.alpha-shadow {
clear: both;
float: left;
background: url(http://www.alistapart.com/d/cssdrop2/img/shadow.gif) no-repeat bottom right;
margin: 5px 0 0 10px;
}
div.alpha-shadow div {
background: url(http://www.alistapart.com/d/cssdrop2/img/shadow2.png) no-repeat left top !important;
background: url(http://www.alistapart.com/d/cssdrop2/img/shadow2.gif) no-repeat left top;
float: left;
padding: 0px 6px 6px 0px;
}
div.alpha-shadow img {
background-color: #fff;
border: 1px solid #a9a9a9;
padding: 4px;
margin: 0;
}
</style>
<!--[if gte ie 5.5000]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssdrop2/ie.css" />
<![endif]-->
Then I wrapped the following image with:
<div class="alpha-shadow"> <div><img src="..." alt=""/></div> </div>
If I decide I like this, I'll make sure and download the images/stylesheets locally so not to hog bandwidth from alistapart.com. Too bad there's not a technique to make text drop-shadows work. To see what I mean, see my Struts Resume demo. All the <h1> tags (titles) should have a drop-shadow - and they do in Mozilla, Firefox and Safari (but no go in IE).
The real question is - how do I get it to NOT float:left, but still get the drop-shadows to work? I guess I'll have to ask that question on alistapart.com.
Hmmmmm, my version doesn't work in Safari, what's up with that?!
A List Apart has a good article on how to do relative font-sizes in your webapps.
Relative font sizes may make websites more accessible -- but they're not much help unless the person using the site can find a way to actually change text size. Return control to your audience using this simple, drop-in solution.
I'll have to remember this the next time I need relative fonts in a webapp. I've just been using "font-size: 12px" on the body and "em" for everything else. Sure resizing fonts doesn't work in IE, but no one has complained yet. And since I use Safari or Firebird/fox all the time, I never notice.
Also spotted this morning - the Sarissa JavaScript library for parsing XML with JavaScript. You might wonder why I care? Because the bug-ridden twisty comments in Roller use JavaScript XML parsing and I could use a better solution.