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.
Tomcat 5.0.6 Alpha is now available for testing. [Download, Change Log]. The same setup steps seem to apply for this release as with the 5.0.4 and 5.0.5.
In other news, I struggled with Tomcat 4.1.27's webapp reload bug for much of the evening last night. I'd say it's not a big deal in a production environment (where you don't reload webapps much), but it's a real pain in the ass for development. I'll be reverting back to 4.1.24.
I missed it by a couple of days. As of Friday, I have been blogging for one year. Happy birthday to the blogging version of this site.
After reading Hani's comments about Freeroller's abysmal performance (which I agree does suck), I sent the following e-mail to Novosoft:
Any chance you'd like to donate a copy of your software to the Roller Weblogger open-source project (http://rollerweblogger.org). We could really use a stress-test tool like yours. We're using it at my day job and it works great.
Their software is a load and stress testing tool that a co-worker discovered and it works awesome. At my day job, we know that if 17 users click on the same button at the precise same time, then Hibernate (or maybe it's Oracle) will throw a deadlocking error. We doubt that we'll ever get 17 concurrent users, so it's not an issue for us, but it's nice to know.
Anyway, their software is $250, which is a little steep for any open source project. However, I was delighted to find that they obliged my e-mail and sent me a license this morning!
Dear Matt, Thank you for your feedback and your warm words regarding our product! We have decided to grant you registration key for our product WAPT 2.0.
Sweet! Now I just have to find time to create these tests, or maybe one of the other Roller Developers has time?
Expected delivery date: August 8th
#1 reason to switch back? Speed, and lots of it. ;0)
I don't know what my next gig will be yet, but my current one is about over. They gave us a roll off date of August 15th and it looks to be pretty firm. They're trying to get a budget approved until Q1 of next year, but it's a slow process and politics-oriented place. So if you know of anything in Denver, or via telecommuting, let me know. You can also check out my resume [MS Word - updated version]. Damn, I wish I had struts-resume done so I could use that. If I'm out of a gig on August 15th, that might be some good motivation to finish it.
We (finally) sold our house today. We've been waiting for an appraisal for the last couple of weeks - the appraiser did his work and went on vacation for two weeks - and everything got finalized today. We close on our old house on Tuesday, which means we have to move to the new one (which is actually 60 years older) this weekend. Aaahhhh, moving, how I missed it. It's been 4 years since the last move, which was from our one-bedroom apartment into our first house. This weekend will likely be a reminder of how much shit I can accumulate in a few short years. Julie will try to throw most of it away, and I will fight to keep a bunch of worthless junk. Should be a fun weekend! Here's the old and the new - old is on top.
If you could pick between a new Dell Laptop or a new Powerbook, which would you choose? If performance was your top priority? If you were going to buy a Windows-based laptop, which would you buy (doesn't have to be a Dell)?
Update: OK, I'm at the Apple Store, on a 17" Powerbook with 512 MB of RAM. Let's do some performance numbers. If you have a laptop that you think I should get, post your numbers as a comment.
I was born on this day 29 years ago, at 4:30 in the morning. I was born at the cabin, with only my dad (who is a Navy man, not a doctor) to assist. I came out with my umbilical cord wrapped around my neck and my whole head was blue. This had to be quite a surprise for my parents, doing the home birth and all. My dad, always good at thinking fast, grabbed his hunting knife from his belt and sliced that puppy off in a split second. And that's why I'm here today.
Ever since I worked at eDeploy.com, where they gave us our birthday's off, I've continued to take the day off. So today, there will be none of this blog checking, e-mail reading nonsense (save for an early morning peak) - but rather a whole bunch of goofing off, playing with my favorite ladies, and possibly some indulgence into a few of my favorite savory Colorado microbrews.
I attempted (and succeeded) in upgrading to the latest and greatest releases of Canoo's WebTest and Jakarta's Cactus this afternoon. It wasn't too bad. Both have revised their taskdef's to read from a properties file, and Cactus has simplified the process to include cactus-related JARs/mappings in your webapps. Now you can "cactify" your war with a little Ant-lovin:
<cactifywar srcfile="${webapp.dist}/${webapp.war}"
destfile="${webapp.dist}/${webapp.name}-cactus.war">
<lib dir="${strutstestcase.dir}" includes="*.jar"/>
<lib dir="${cactus.dir}">
<include name="*.jar"/>
</lib>
</cactifywar>
Pretty slick IMO. Now if I could only figure out how to do form-based authentication with Cactus (I couldn't find it in the docs).
The other issue I've been banging my head against the wall over is running canoo/httpunit tests with a compression filter enabled. Yep, the problems still exist, despite the fact that I patched httpunit. So I've come up with a new fix that satisfies me and eases the pain in my noggin'. In my compression filter, I simply disabled compression when it's an httpunit test:
String userAgent = req.getHeader("User-Agent");
if (!isGzipSupported(req) || userAgent.startsWith("httpunit")) {
// Invoke resource normally.
chain.doFilter(req, res);
} else {
// gzip it
}
In an effort to speed up my Windows XP machine and stave off the urge to buy a new computer - I'm re-installing Windows XP. I've installed and re-installed Windows quite a bit in my lifetime, but this time I'm doing it different. Rather than risking my data, I bought a new hard drive. Can you believe that the smallest hard drive you can buy these days is 30 GB?! Everything installed easy enough and the machine (1.5 GHz, 1 GB RAM) is much faster, now I'm only going to install the apps I actually use. This means that I'll install them only as I need them. Hopefully this will result in a leaner, meaner machine.
I am strongly considering a new G5, but I need a new (better paying) contract to justify that. And if I do get this $6000 dream machine (23" monitor, 1 GB RAM), it won't be a replacement for my Windows machine - it'll just be a new primary machine. I don't want to have to buy Quicken or Quickbooks for the Mac, it's much easier to just keep the old machine around.
As I write this, I'm on my second attempt at installing XP. The first attempt worked fine, but for some reason - the new hard drive was given a drive letter of F. Maybe it got confused with the new slave drive. So I'm in the midst of a 2nd attempt, this time w/o the slave drive connected. Wish me luck.