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.
From the tomcat-user mailing list:
Tomcat 5.0.3 Alpha is now available for testing.
Please refer to the changelog included in the release for the list of
changes. [Download]
I've found that this release is not worth your time. It's even worse than 5.0.2. For details, check out my Tomcat 5 upgrade page.
Keep an eye on the WWDC Quicktime Keynote Stream page later this afternoon. [Matt Croydon]
Let's hope they announce 2 GHz G5s. I was thinking that if they gave them to us cheap, I might be willing to combine my 2 1.5 GHz Dells into dual-processing Linux beast - and just go for a dual processor G5 as my new desktop machine...
While looking for a webcast for Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, I found that a new version of JDK 1.4 was released yesterday. I doubt I'll install it - especially since I'll have to reinstall OS X to cleanly remove the build. Also, the part about "don't install this on a system with critical data" is a little discouraging - especially when I haven't experienced any bugs in the current JDK 1.4 build I'm running.
Summary: This seed consolidates a number of recent bug fixes to Java 1.4.1 and includes the changes to Java 1.3.1 from the recent Java Oracle bug fix release. The purpose of this seed is to expose the Java 1.4.1 changes to a broad sample of real-world code. While DP101 has undergone only limited testing, it is based on Apple's latest internal builds of Java, which are tested continously.
Warnings: This build has received limited testing and comes with no support. Do not install this on a system with critical data. This build installs over both Java 1.3.1 and Java 1.4.1; you will need to reinstall Mac OS X to cleanly remove this build and revert to an earlier versions of Java. This build is for evaluation purposes only, to determine if critical bugs have been addressed. You cannot distribute this build in any way.
Mini-me prompted me to download the latest iPod software update (v 2.0.1) tonight. It's the first time I've received an update, so I thought it would be easy. I was disappointed to find that it gives me two choices: Update and Restore - where Restore erases everything. The problem? Restore is the only choice. I'm guessing that I have to erase everything to update the software?! Sounds like a load of crap to me, but since I have all the songs stored in iTunes, I guess it's not that big of a deal. Is this the usual procedure for iPod software updates?
In the interest of no fluff, just stuff, I've altered my theme. The old theme was 162.7 KB for this entire frontpage (in Mozilla: File -> Save Page As...), while the new one is 101.8. So I've reduced it quite a bit, considering that there's around 50K of pictures from posts and such. Thanks to all who suggested reducing the page size. I don't know how long I'll keep this theme intact, at least until the end of the month probably - in hopes of saving some bandwidth. I hope you like it, and if you don't - let me know why - and then help me improve it.
I'll add to this list as feedback rolls in. If you'd like to add to the list of available stylesheets for this theme, send me an image (1024 x 150) and I'll add it. Here's a simple stylesheet that you can alter to override settings in the basic one (simple.css). This theme has the stylesheet switcher integrated, so it's easy to change to a different stylesheet.
Site changes coming in the next 24 hours. I'll add the new (low bandwidth) theme to Roller if requested.
Mails we've received, forum discussions, and recent Splorp posts
all complain that .NET's built-in tools and controls generate invalid
XHTML and CSS. The workaround? Don't use the built-in tools and
controls. The value of .NET without those built-in tools and controls?
Not much.
.NET is Microsoft's platform for web services. It derives it power
from XML, a web standard. A product based on one open standard should
support others, not break them.
When Microsoft does the wrong thing, developers feel helpless. You
are not helpless. You have a choice of development platforms. [Zeldman]
(emphasis mine) The choice is simple, use J2EE ~ where the flexibility is free! 
Just in case anyone is interested, I thought I'd report on how Professional JSP 2.0 (now being published by Apress) is progressing. I received some initial feedback that my Struts/XDoclet chapter would not be included in the book, but would be a separate download (I'd still get paid for it though). Most of the reasons seemed to be indicating that the chapter was too advanced - newbies wouldn't get it. Personally, I hate reading newbie books, so why would I write a newbie chapter? I also hate simple sample apps, that's why I wrote a fully functional one. Anyway, I convinced them that this chapter did have value and now they are going to include it in the book, but as a case study rather than a regular chapter.
As for the security chapter, they said they really liked the content, but (again) the example was too advanced. I have been asked to remove XDoclet as a dependency since I don't explain it until the Struts chapter. This turned out to be a lot easier than I thought it'd be - only took me about an hour last night. I simply built the project with XDoclet, and then copied the artifacts (web.xml, generated ValidatorForms, struts-config.xml, validation.xml, *.hbm.xml, etc.) back into the source tree. I then tweaked the build.xml file to pick up the artifacts, ran "test-all" and voila - it worked?!
The lesson I learned from all this is that XDoclet is great for rapid development - but possibly only while you you are developing new features. Once an application stabilizes or development is discontinued (I don't plan on further developing security-example), it's pretty easy to strip out the XDoclet dependency and (probably) make it easier for users to understand.
Just kidding. It's just that the ol' bandwidth issue has reared its ugly head again. I sent the following message to Keith last night:
Am I reading this stats page correctly? Am I already over my KB limit for the month?
His response:
Wow, you've almost 3/4 million hits already this month.... It looks like it averages about 7.7K per hit, so yep, you appear to be over 5 GB already this month.
I only have a 5 GB plan, so I asked him how much it would be to move to a 10 GB plan (no response yet). Why don't I just move? Because I like Keith, and ever since I moved to the new server, stability has been awesome. I pay $30/month for the 5 giger, so hopefully I can get the 10 GB for an extra $10/month. Then again, according to this page, 8 GB is $80/month. Maybe I will be moving...
