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 W3C has revamped it's HTML Validation service and it shall be known as the MarkUp Validation Service from now on. I stumbled upon is when validating this site. It's now got a tip-of-the-day and links to all the different specs and associated services (i.e. CSS Validation). For you reading pleasure, here's a complete list of what's new.
I did a bunch of work today to get struts-xdoclet off the ground. Basically, all that exists write now is the generation of struts-config.xml and web.xml from xml files in a merge directory. There are no .java files in this project yet.
I'm posting this to you in hopes of getting some validation of the directory structure and Ant-based build/deploy process. The deploy task originally worked as Erik Hatcher suggests in his book, but whenever I tried to redeploy, it would give me errors when trying to remove a .jar file - so I resorted back to a simple copy to $CATALINA_HOME/webapps. The build.xml file I put together is based on what I found in struts-blank.war (for 1.1), roller's build process, my own experience and good ideas from the Ant book.
I've also configured form-based authentication and I plan to add a bunch of optional modules (i.e. SSLExt for SSL Switching, password encryption) to the mix.
I'm still searching for a sample-app idea for the persistence layer (i.e. authors and books). I'd like to do something that folks can use, so I'd definitely like to include an admin section for administering user's and their properties. Maybe even offer features such as registration (might be a bit difficult using tomcat-users.xml, but not so bad with JDBCRealm or an LDAP server), and password recovery.
You can download the first cut of this - which should build and allow you to login - at http://www.raibledesigns.com/struts/.
Next steps include the security modules I mentioned above, and generating validation.xml and persistence classes from a POJO. I'm still undecided on using Castor or Hibernate for the persistence layer. Dave (Johnson) seems to think Hibernate has some great stuff, and he's used Castor for a while, so that's probably the direction I'm leaning towards. It would be great do be able to do both.
MacUpdate reports that Mozilla 1.2 Final has been released - even though it's located in the nightly build area of the site. I'll wait until the announcement is posted on mozilla.org, but just in case you're impatient. [Download]
Zeldman gives a link to Photoshop 7 Keyboard shortcuts for Windows. On the Mac, substitute COMMAND (the Apple key) for CTRL and OPTION for ALT.
I'd probably know a lot more of these if I was still continuing my quest for a Photoshop Certification. I still want to get it, but the Java/Struts/XDoclet realm is more inspiring and more fun right now. I haven't touched the Photoshop 7 Bible in about a month! Maybe I'll get back into it, but I probably won't finish it this year.
I received a Services for UNIX CD in the mail today from Microsoft. That's funny since I remember receiving an installing SFU 3.0 back in July. I tried to telnet into my XP box, and apparently the 120-Day Evaluation has expired. It's nice that they sent me a new 120-Day Evaluation. I wonder if I'll get another one after 4 months. I'd buy it if I really needed it since it's only $99. However, since the license expired a couple weeks ago, and I didn't even notice, I must not use it. It's very much like Cygwin, except you get everything that UNIX has - including a telnet server, and you can type ls from a DOS prompt.
BTW, did you know you can enable command-completion on any Windows machine? Here's how.
I found this great link on the Most Common 508 Accessiblity Errors. It also has some great examples on using the <label> and <fieldset> tags for marking up your forms.
I've gotten a little closer to using and running Tomcat 5. My last post on the subject pointed out an error I received about comments in XML (org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The string "--" is not permitted within comments). Well, this turned out to be a Xerces issue and has already been reported. So, like a good little programmer, I downloaded the nightly build of Xerces, and replaced xercesImpl.jar and xmlParseAPIs.jar in common/endorsed. Now, I can view the jsp-examples and servlet-examples applications, but I get this error on startup.
