Matt RaibleMatt Raible is a writer with a passion for software. Connect with him on LinkedIn.

The Angular Mini-Book 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 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.

RSS to iCal Converter

The RSSiCal converter appears to be what I've been looking for. I'd like to duplicate Roller's Big Calendar feature, but give it the look and feel of an iCal. When I run my rss feed through this tool, I get a bunch of text output (using IE 5.0/Win). I'd love a way to convert to the Aqua-fied look and feel on the fly.

Posted in Mac OS X at Oct 28 2002, 07:45:04 AM MST 2 Comments

Should I learn PHP?

It probably wouldn't take very long to learn, and it seems like a lot of folks like it. Is it worth it - a.k.a. will it get me more clients?

According to The FuzzyBlog!, Yahoo likes it. Read why Yahoo will use PHP over all other open source technologies. Personally, I think they chose PHP because they have the inventor working for them.

I think I'll pass on learning it at this time - I'm having to much fun with Java and all it's goodies.

Posted in General at Oct 28 2002, 05:38:15 AM MST Add a Comment

Sun ONE will be free, and maybe Solaris?

From CNET News:

The company said it has released two new versions of its Sun ONE Application Server 7. The Platform Edition is available as a free download for Solaris and Windows operating systems. The Standard Edition includes additional management tools and costs $2,000 per server processor.

Maybe Sun is listening to Russell, because they've really started to pick things up lately. If you look at their homepage, it's all about this download. Too bad there's no Linux/OS X version. I doubt I can hack the Solaris version to work on OS X - though I was able to hack the Solaris J2EE RI to work. I've heard great things about the 7.0 version of the app server. I hope it does well.

Bias Alert: I've worked with Netscape/iPlanet application server since NAS 2.1 and have detailed knowledge how everything works/doesn't work. So my hoping for a better version is definitely tied to my existing knowledge and hopes of leveraging it with folks hoping to implement a Sun ONE Solution. Also, I am certified to teach iPlanet courses for Sun and I'd love to start getting more teaching gigs - they've been non-existent lately.

Posted in General at Oct 28 2002, 04:51:06 AM MST Add a Comment

Mac OS X Customization

Mac OS X Marc Liyanage has created a nice list of things to help your average OS X user. At the very bottom, it even supplies the color ls that I was looking for!

For you developers that use OS X, you've probably heard of Marc before, he gives us great installers for all kinds of goodies, ranging from MySQL to VIM, and even provides instructions on getting Apache setup with SSL on Mac OS X.

Posted in Mac OS X at Oct 27 2002, 05:47:05 AM MST Add a Comment

OS X Treats from Forwarding Address: OS X

I found the community blog of Forwarding Address: OS X this afternoon, which appears to be maintained and updated by 17 different bloggers. A pretty cool idea and (hopefully) a reason for frequent updates, to satisfy my blog-reading addiction. I discovered a whole bunch of goodies:

  • Patrick, you're not the last one to know how to speed up Finder - I am.
  • How to colorize emacs doesn't help me, but does make me wonder how I can get colors to show up in my Terminal window. When I ssh into my Red Hat machine, I get different colors for executables, folders, etc. - maybe this is a Linux thing.
  • Virtual Desktop and TigerLaunch - installed and loving them both!

If any of you are eagerly awaiting my Wiki Review (I doubt it), I haven't forgot about it - just lost motivation for it. No need == no motivation.

Posted in Mac OS X at Oct 26 2002, 10:23:23 AM MDT Add a Comment

Building Accessible Websites

Joe Clark’s 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 Joe’s book. (If you can afford two, buy Joe’s book and Jim’s 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.

Posted in The Web at Oct 26 2002, 07:54:18 AM MDT Add a Comment

Good CSS Designs

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.

Posted in The Web at Oct 26 2002, 05:04:04 AM MDT Add a Comment

Googlism

What does Google think of you? It's pretty acurate on it's impression of me and my company.

Posted in The Web at Oct 25 2002, 01:24:30 PM MDT Add a Comment

Apple (finally) releases JDK 1.4.x

Allen Denison, Java Product Manager at Apple has just sent an email to their java-dev mailing list announcing the availability of a Java 1.4.1 Developer Preview. This preview is available to all ADC members and can be downloaded from the "Download Software" section of the ADC web site. [via MacSlash]

Happy Day! Downloading now...

Posted in Mac OS X at Oct 25 2002, 11:23:44 AM MDT Add a Comment

Apple Switch Ad

You gotta check this out whether you're a Mac user or not, it's a good laugh. Found via Zeldman.

Unrelated to any of the above, an Apple “switch” flick that thinks different is now making the rounds. A second copy is available on another server. No doubt many copies are available on many servers, though perhaps not for long. Thanks: Dori Smith and Todd Fahrner.

Posted in Mac OS X at Oct 25 2002, 06:54:37 AM MDT Add a Comment