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.
I found this by way of Ben Hammersley's post. You can adjust the transparency of your terminal window - VERY cool in my book.
Open a terminal window and write this:
defaults write com.apple.terminal TerminalOpaqueness .4
Hit return, and then close and reopen the terminal window. Adjust the number to taste. Mmmmm
I ordered my copy on Wednesday evening from Mac Warehouse. I saved $30, but I'll have to wait until next week sometime to get it. Russell Beattie showed me how Ben reacted to his new addition.
Ben Hammersley just got OSX 10.2 Jaguar in this morning, he's very excited about it.
I'm excited to get it b/c I think it's a cool new OS, and I've always been upgrade happy. My biggest reason is probably b/c I'm hoping for some more speed. I bought a Powerbook G4 last Christmas with 766 Mhz and 1 Ghz of RAM, and it's a lot slower than I expected.
I can wait b/c I only use my Mac for about 8 minutes each day. I've tried to move from Windows XP to OS X and Red Hat 7.3, but I just can't seem to do it. The reason? I like the speed and the applications for XP. And my XP box has 1/2 the RAM as my OS X laptop. Also, since I've been a Windows user my whole life, the whole 1-button mouse is annoying (and it still annoys me, especially when you can plugin an external mouse and get 2-button functionality). I know about the Ctrl-click thing, but I've always been about speed and efficiency...
As I sit here pounding the keyboard on a late night, get-it-done-before-the-deadline (that's tomorrow), I stumbled upon's Eric Costello's standards compliant Blogger template with DOM-based font customization features and silly randomly morphing color scheme. See it here - you might think you need your eyes checked too! (Tip: I had to refresh in some browsers to get it to work.)
This guy seems to work for Microsoft, and you can tell, have you looked at his blog in Mozilla? It gets a little ugly, not unreadable, but enough to make you wonder.
My opinion on browsers is: IE rocks on both OS X and Windows XP for one reason, and one reason only - it opens faster. That's it, the only reason I have. I really like Chimera (for OS X) and Mozilla, but they just take too long to open. I'm impatient. Even on Linux, Konquerer tends to open faster, so I use it more than Mozilla.
Did you know that IE6/Win does not know the difference b/w dotted and dashed - view this post in Mozilla to see how it's really supposed to look. Maybe their next release will be more standards-compliant. This happens even with standards-compliant mode turned on.
Easy Struts 0.5.0 just released. This is a code generator that seems like a nice product - I've installed it, but never used. I think these types of tools are great for developers that love to use an IDE. If you're like me and you prefer a good ol' text editor - this tool won't help you.
The station I found yesterday DOES broadcast Mark and Brian - awesome! It's actually one of the best internet radio broadcasts I've ever heard (besides the network drops), they play music during the commercials to get around the internet radio issue.
I found a station that might play Mark and Brian (don't knock it 'till you try it) - we'll see tomorrow morning! It's been SOOOO long since I've heard them... please oh please let it be true! [ Listen Now ]
I found this via Blogging Roller: are you addicted to blogging? I would be if I had better things to say, and I knew people were listening. One reason I recently did this site as a blog, rather than the old site, is because I *liked* reading people's blogs on the web. So now this is a blog, will it get me any new clients? I don't know - probably moreso than the last site.
As one friend asked me, "Who is your target audience?" I told him it was folks like me - developers who are interested in reading about what other developers have to say. The one problem is that if I ever get a client that stumbles upon this site, they might not know what the heck my company does. But, I would have to say that this new site explains what I do a lot better than my old site.
The absolute best part about blogging is when someone else notices that you have something interesting to say, and puts a link on their site. It's like getting an article written about you in the local paper. 
