Panther has shipped?
Apple just sent me an e-mail stating that my $20 (gotta rub it in) Panther upgrade has shipped. Fedex Tracking seems to disagree - at least as of 9:00 this morning.
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.
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.
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RSS Weather
Found Winer: RSS Weather. Our local news says snow this weekend, RSS Weather just says it's going to be cold. Lows in the 20s, highs in the 50s. Today - mid 80s.
A List Apart 3.0
Web Standards Guru Zeldman has re-designed and relaunched the best web standards webzine available today (IMO, of course):
Ladies and gentlemen, A List Apart 3.0. The magazine has been redesigned from front to back. It features three XML feeds and three new articles by three of our favorite writers: Joe Clark on Facts and Opinion About Fahrner Image Replacement; Douglas Bowman on Sliding Doors of CSS; Dan Benjamin on Random Image Rotation. Much more. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]
Good stuff - there's a nice tabs article and XML Feeds for your favorite aggregator.
New Jobs and School starts November 3rd
When we had Abbie last year, Julie took a year leave from her job at Qwest. She was never planning on going back to work, but her old boss called her up last week and they've been negotiating. To make a long story short, she's going back to her old gig part-time (3 days per week) and starts on the same day I start my new gig (Monday, November 3rd). Because of this, Julie went searching for day care providers today. After seeing a couple nasty ones (she actually left crying), she visited a Montessori school across the street from her office. They have a 6 month waiting list for infants - Abbie's not a toddler because she can't walk unassisted nor drink from a cup on her own. Luckily, Julie was able to sweet talk them into accepting Abbie as an infant and she starts school in a mere week and a half. The place is damn expensive, but hopefully she'll learn some cool stuff. We have some friends who's daughter is going to a different Montessori school in Broomfield and she is almost potty trained at 15 months! She also knows 4 or 5 signs (sign language) and helps clean around the house.
I'm sure this will prove to be an interesting chapter in our lives - Abbie cries every time we leave the room now - so that Monday will probably suck for her. Should be a good winter though - Julie is planning on working Tuesday through Thursday and I hope to work from home on Monday and Friday.
As for the move to San Diego? We still want to, but the weather has been so nice here (80s) that Julie hasn't been motivated lately. The biggest reason for moving is to be closer to family (her sister lives there), but the job market is hopping here right now, so neither of us is that motivated to leave. I think my best bet is to get a telecommuting gig and move during that contract, but those are pretty tough to come by. Who knows - there definitely seems to be more Java opportunities in San Diego than there is in South Florida. I love it here, especially with ski season just around the corner ... I wonder where we'll be next year at this time? I predict California or in a new house (our current one is only 675 square feet).
Want my job?
My current client has posted my position on the Rocky Mountain Internet User Group Mailing List. If you live in the Denver area (commute from Boulder is better), this is a fun gig.
Why Macs rule (they don't run Windows)!
I'm working at my local library today. I'm working from home, but an electrician is working on our house, so now power there. I'm working in the "laptop workstations" area - which just happens to be where a lot of students come for laptop support (incoming freshman are required to have a laptop). They wave a campus-wide Wi-Fi network, but I'm not a student, so alas - no access (that's why I'm plugged in). Since I've been here (approx. 4 hours), a number of students have come by to get their laptops fixed. All have been Windows XP machines, all have had Virus or Spyware issues. What a maintenance nightmare from a tech support perspective. It's good to be a Mac user - no viruses on my laptop!
Upgrading from Struts 1.1 to Nightly build
I'm upgrading our application at work to the nightly build (20031020) of Struts in order to use the validwhen Validator. I found a few deprecations and errors in the process, so I thought I'd share to help others upgrade easier:
- ActionError has been deprecated in favor of ActionMessage. Likewise, ActionMessages.GLOBAL_MESSAGE replaces ActionErrors.GLOBAL_ERROR.
- Methods in ResponseUtils have been deprecated in favor of TagUtils' methods.
- RequestUtils.message has been deprecated in favor of TagUtils.message. Other methods include RequestUtils.lookup.
- Many of the methods in TagUtils aren't static (they where were in Request/ResponseUtils), so you have to create an instance of TagUtils. Anyone know the logic here?
- ValidatorResources.get deprecated in favor of ValidatorResources.getForm.
- ValidatorForm.getFieldMap() is gone, which no apparent replacement method (at least not in the JavaDocs).
- The Tiles' Controller interface's perform method has been deprecated in favor of execute. You gotta love this one - while perform has been deprecated, you must use it or you will get a compile error saying you must implement it (or declare your class abstract). Same goes for execute. So to upgrade, I had to implement both methods - where my perform method calls my execute method.
- org.apache.commons.lang.NumberUtils moved to org.apache.commons.lang.math.NumberUtils
- org.apache.commons.validator.ValidatorUtil moved to org.apache.commons.validator.util.ValidatorUtils
- stringToInt(java.lang.String) in org.apache.commons.lang.math.NumberUtils has been deprecated. Not according to the its JavaDoc.
Final tally - two deprecation errors that don't seem to have replacements (yet):
[javac] .../src/web/org/appfuse/webapp/filter/BreadCrumbFilter.java:182:
warning: stringToInt(java.lang.String) in
org.apache.commons.lang.math.NumberUtils has been deprecated
[javac] int mSS = NumberUtils.stringToInt(temp);
[javac] ^
[javac] .../src/web/org/appfuse/webapp/taglib/LabelTag.java:71: warning:
getFieldMap() in org.apache.commons.validator.Form has been deprecated
[javac] Field field = (Field) form.getFieldMap().get(fieldName);
Later: Thanks to Steve Raeburn (via the struts-dev mailing list), I now have no deprecation errors. NumberUtils.stringToInt(String) is now NumberUtils.toInt(String) and Form.getFieldMap().get(String) is now Form.getField(String). Thanks Steve!
My IDEA Evaluation - Eclipse is better
I've been trying to use IDEA (on OS X) for the past few weeks and I keep reverting back to Eclipse for features that seem to be missing. I know the features must be there, but I just can't find them. Why else would everyone like it so much? Sidenote: I've never used IDEA for a feature that doesn't exist in Eclipse - I'm sure there are some, I'm just not using them. It sure would be cool if someone created a HowTo explaining how to migrate from Eclipse to IDEA. In the meantime, I'll settle for posting my questions here:
- Debugging in Tomcat - I'm currently using Sysdeo's Tomcat Plugin in Eclipse for Tomcat 4.1.27. It's super easy to setup and use - I expect the same ease-of-use from IDEA. I haven't looked much, but I'd love to hear feedback on IDEA's Tomcat debugging support.
- Renaming a variable in a JavaBean renames getter and setter methods. Sounds simple enough, in my 10 second search, I couldn't find it. In Eclipse, right-click -> Refactor -> Rename.
- Override/Implement methods (from parent classes and interfaces). Right click -> Source -> Override/Implement methods in Eclipse.
I'll add more as I think of them throughout the day. So far, I like IDEA, but to be honest - it's not saving me any time over Eclipse. It also locks up as much as Eclipse and it's responsiveness is still a big sluggish on OS X (10.2.8) with 1 GB of RAM (1.33 MHz processor). Hopefully Panther will make both IDEs faster. Two weeks ago, I was thinking of buying it (as well as Dreamweaver) - now I'm frustrated with IDEA's lack of features and Dreamweaver's slowness. I'll probably pass on shelling out the cash since Eclipse and BBEdit are giving me all the features I need in IDEA and Dreamweaver.
Last year on this weekend
Last year on this Saturday, I had just finished Erik's Java Development with Ant - and I was struggling with OS X. It's disappointing to think that I haven't read any inspirational tech books this year - not because the books aren't good, but because I don't read much. Abbie and coding are just more fun.