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.

Sun Certification Summit.

Want to get certified in just one, two or three days? If so, you could attend the Sun Certification Summit, November 10-13 in Colorado Springs. It's almost worth it considering how many hours you would spend studying for these certifications.

The all-inclusive fee of $1,295 per person includes all conference activities, student materials, Web-based courses, meals and lodging. One price fits all. You choose how aggressive you want to be, and take as many sessions as you want.

Posted in General at Oct 23 2002, 06:17:47 AM MDT Add a Comment

Would you click OK?

I attempted to fix some nested <td> errors in a JSP today using Dreamweaver MX's Cleanup XTML feature - but I received this dialog instead. Would you click OK?

Scary Dialog

I get pages rendered in this same language sometimes using Netscape 4.7 - maybe Windows XP is slowly dying? BTW, I used the file-upload feature of roller for the first time with this post - worked very slick. I'll probably be using it from now on!

Posted in The Web at Oct 23 2002, 05:41:55 AM MDT Add a Comment

A Tutorial.

javaStruts meets Swing. Thanks Erik. I hope that I never have to use this. I dread that day that I have to write a Swing app over a web app.

Posted in Java at Oct 23 2002, 04:27:08 AM MDT Add a Comment

The Zone and The Wall.

I've certainly been in The Zone before:

Sometimes, you just have one of those days. One of those days where you manage to find flow, and stay in it. One of those days where you move from test, to code, back to test, back to code with ease.

But what about those days you feel like you're pounding your head against the wall. No matter what you do or try it just doesn't work. Or you're trying to fix a bug and just can't seem to find the problem. And when you do, it was sooo simple - ARRRGGHHH! I battled with The Wall all day yesterday writing installation scripts for my current project. I was lucky enough to get it all working by the end of the day, but I think I scared the bejeezus out of my cat a time or two.

Posted in General at Oct 23 2002, 04:23:23 AM MDT Add a Comment

Google and Small Screen bookmarklets.

I found some new bookmarklets today. I've tested them on Mac OS X (10.2) and they work on Mozilla 1.2b, Chimera 0.5 and Internet Explorer 5.2.2. I'll test them on Windows and Linux when I finish this post. To use these, simply drag the link to your toolbar. The first is a google bookmarklet, found via MacMegasite. This bookmarklet opens a dialog with a text box, where you can type in your search query and eliminates the initial page load from google. The second is a small screen bookmarklet, found via blogzilla and glazblog. This bookmarklet shows you what a site might look like on a small screen.

Update: These bookmarklets seem to work best on Mozilla 1.2b, Win/Mac. The google one will work in IE/Mac, but not IE/Win.

Posted in The Web at Oct 22 2002, 02:27:11 AM MDT

Dream Job in Carribean.

I got this e-mail yesterday for an Oracle Certified Trainer in the Carribean. How sweet would that be?! If any of you are qualified for this position, I encourage you to apply. I've provided this nice picture for you to gaze at and dream about.

Posted in General at Oct 22 2002, 12:21:23 AM MDT 1 Comment

James Duncan Davidson has a blog.

I found James Duncan Davidson's blog tonight. For those of you who didn't know, James is the original author of both Tomcat and Ant. Now he appears to be caught up in Mac OS X goodness, and is having fun with the T68i and iSync. Powered by blosxom, motivated by simplicity, driven by perl.

Posted in General at Oct 21 2002, 01:19:20 PM MDT 1 Comment

XForms in IE.

Are you aware that the <form> tag will eventually be replaced by XForms? Check out this informative site (requires IE and installing an msi) to see what this will give us. I'd love to be writing XForms in the next year, but it will probably take a while to get xform-enabled browsers onto everyone's desktops.

Posted in The Web at Oct 21 2002, 09:19:22 AM MDT Add a Comment

Referrers for Roller.

Dave appeared to be working his butt off all weekend and pumped out a cool new feature for Roller 0.9.6. Go to his site and look at the bottom right to see what I've talking about - Dave Rules! I'll be upgrading in the next day or two, just for this feature.

Posted in Roller at Oct 21 2002, 09:08:46 AM MDT Add a Comment

Testing Javascript.

I found JsUnit this morning. JsUnit is a Unit Testing framework for client-side JavaScript.

  • JsUnit uses exception handling, which means we need JavaScript 1.4 or higher. That means that the browsers supported are Internet Explorer 5.0 or later, Netscape 6.0 or later, Mozilla 0.9 or later, and Konqueror 5.0 or later. JsUnit has been tested for:
    • IE 5.5+, on Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 95, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X
    • Mozilla 0.9.4+ on all platforms (includes all Gecko-based browsers including Netscape 6.2.3+ and Netscape 7.x)
    • Konqueror 5+ on KDE 3.0.1 (Linux)

Now you should have enough testing frameworks to triple the timeframe of your project...

Posted in General at Oct 21 2002, 04:40:48 AM MDT Add a Comment