The Angular Mini-Book is a
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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.
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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.
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One of the problems with Roller's "themes" is that you have to re-create the entire HTML structure of the page when you add new pages. While this can be simplified using includes, there's got to be a a better way. An ideal solution would be to allow each user to specify a "decorator" and then use SiteMesh to pull this decorator from the database and decorate a user's pages. This seems simple enough, but is it possible?
One of the problems with using GMail over .Mac is that I don't have easy synchronization of my contacts from OS X's Address Book. However, there is an easy way to get your initial set of contacts imported. Google is your friend - "export contacts gmail mac" brings up this howto. Here's the condensed version:
Very nice - GMail definitely has one of the best web interfaces I've ever used. Who says JavaScript sucks? 
Rather than deleting my raibledesigns-DOT-com account as I was planning on doing - today I decided to simply start forwarding e-mail from matt-AT-raibledesigns-DOT-com to my GMail account. So far, it seems to be working great. But there's a greater reason it's working well. I also removed the rule that forwarded *-AT-raibledesigns-DOT-com to matt-AT-raibledesigns.com. This seems to have reduced my junk mail by about 80%. As far as I can tell, I was getting about 800 messages per day to [email protected].
According to my ISP, I received around 250 e-mails that were forwarded to GMail, and there were only about 5 that I had to "report as spam" - GMail caught the rest. The downside is that I might be losing some e-mails. For instance, I never receive any notifications from yesterday's comment-ors. Oh well, I don't mind losing a few e-mails here and there. Hopefully I'll get the important ones.
I don't feel like creating another @raibledesigns.com account because I can't think of anything that looks good. I like matt@ and mraible@ or raible@ just doesn't feel right. So I have a gmail.com and a mac.com account - and I'm thinking of using one of those for my primary account. GMail kinda sucks because you're stuck using the web interface and I like using mail clients like Apple's Mail, Outlook or Thunderbird. .Mac allows both webmail and POP/IMAP, but they only have 15 MB of space. I'm used to unlimited space with raibledesigns.com, so using an account with limited space would be tough. .Mac has synching of contacts, which is a huge plus though. What do you recommend?
Deleting my e-mail account is going to be a real pain - I'm just starting to realize how many online accounts I have it hooked up to. Oh well, maybe alienating myself from those accounts will free up some time as well.
I've used XDoclet and Hibernate for quite some time - but I'm sure I could stand to learn more. That's why I'm linking to this XDoclet and Hibernate Tutorial (found on JRoller). Hopefully I'll have some time to read through it after the long holiday weekend.
I've been looking for an app server performance comparison for some time now. Maybe those folks that say Tomcat sucks and Jetty rules will change their tune. Via Lasse Koskela:
Web Performance Inc. has published a very interesting report, which included a couple of surprises. Jetty pretty much sucked, JRun was one of the top guns, and Tomcat wasn't too far behind JRun.
Anyone know of any similar (recent) comparisons?
Java, Booze and Porn - what more can you ask for? I met a whole lotta folks this week - and had an awesome time. I highly recommend the networking track at JavaOne.
Bruce and I managed to ditch all the "chozgobbling asshats" in downtown San Fran at about 3:30 this morning. We packed and caught the hotel's limo to SFO - then proceeded to act drunk and stupid. So stupid in fact that we had to go through security twice. We arrived here at 4:15 and I finally got to my gate at 5:20. Too bad my flight doesn't leave until 8.
To all the asshats: are you man enough to do it again at OSCON?
It was a fun week gents - thanks for all the pics. ;-)
I'm continuing my theme to only attend sessions I know little about. I'm sitting in a session on the J2ME Wireless ToolKit. So far it's fairly boring. This guy's been rambling on for a while about all the JSRs that the toolkit implements. Now he's doing a demo and using the Network Monitor to demonstrate looking at the HTTP requests when making soap calls.
This is only my 4th session of JavaOne, and I haven't been to any BOFs. I don't feel like I'm missing anything. Most of my time in Moscone is spent sitting in the main lobby, hacking away at my e-mail and talking with folks. I never imagined I'd meet so many people. It's pretty damn cool to meet all the bloggers.
The tools and demo that this guy is showing look like good monitoring and emulating tools. The WTK doesn't appear to have an IDE, just a way to run midlets and see the results. It doesn't appear to have an IDE. If I was to compare this to the web world, I'd say that the WTK is really just a web browser. Of course, it's much more than that since it can emulate HTTP requests, and well as bluetooth. From what I can tell, a midlet is really just a Java application that can run on a mobile device.
After googling a bit, it looks like I was right. How easy is it to unit test midlets? Do you have to constantly use an emulator to test stuff? I'd like to write an AppFuse client for my phone, but I also want to use TDD to do it.
I missed the rest of the presentation b/c I got lost in reading blogs. Attending these sessions with an open laptop is not a good idea. I hope I can make one more session today - my goal was 5 for the week. As Dion said, this conference is all about networking.
Went to bed at 5, up at 9. I haven't had a hangover this week, and I'm still drunk from last night. As I'm sobering up at 1:00 in the afternoon, I feel my breakfast making an attempt to see the light of day. I have lots of photos (and video) from the evening's activities, but no cord to upload them onto my computer and the web. Will do so tomorrow. These Java guys can't dance for shit. I could use another Irish Car Bomb right now. 5 and 1/2 hours until the festivities begin again. Bruce and I have a 6 a.m. flight to Denver tomorrow - should be fun going to the airport. Maybe we should just check out of hotel today.
