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.
If you're working with Lucene, and you need an easy way to inspect your index, checkout Luke.
Luke is a handy development and diagnostic tool, which accesses already existing Lucene indexes and allows you to display their contents in several ways:
Thanks to all who left comments about my (possible) new laptop purchase. I did some more tests today, and I'm going to have to go with a Windows machine, especially since I hope to replicate the performance I get from my machine at work (Dell Optiplex GX260: 2 GHz, 512 MB RAM, Windows 2000 SP4):
Yep, that's right, my (work) desktop is twice as fast when opening Eclipse and 4 times faster opening Photoshop (than the Powerbook). So if I get a 3 GHz laptop with 1 GB RAM, it should be even faster than that right?
Right now, I'm looking at the Alienware Area-51m or the Hibersonic Aviator ZX7. At first glance, I'm leaning towards Area-51m, although the Bluetooth USB Adapter (vs. integrated Bluetooth) is disappointing. The Hibersonice has a 17" screen, but that doesn't seem to be that big of deal (after hearing y'all speak up). Also the Hibersonic has a 802.11b NIC, where the Alienware one has a 802.11g.
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.
Did you know you can install OS X on your iPod and use it as your hard drive? Makes me wish I'd bought the 30 GB version.
backing up and restoring on my box were really simple. i plugged in my 30GB ipod and installed os x on it (which went smoothly, i just selected it as the drive to install to when the installer asked me). then with a few points and clicks, i got disk copy to create an image of my powerbook's drive and save it to my ipod. click, click, reboot while holding down "T" (to boot firewire target mode) -- instead of your laptop's drive whirring you'll hear the ipod happily clicking away. perfect. when booted, format your laptop's drive, then expand out the image onto the notebook's drive, and voila.
[Forwarding Address: OS X]
Good to know - now if I could just figure out how to use Apple's "Backup" program to backup to a network drive.
My pappy is flying in this afternoon, and it's looking to be a great weekend. Julie and Abbie headed to Florida yesterday for a friend's baby shower, so it's a "guys weekend." For Father's Day this year, I got us tickets to the Mile High Nationals (top fuel dragsters) on Sunday. It's a nice WT event, and being from Montana - we'll fit right in! ;-)
I'm picking him up from the airport this afternoon, and we're heading for the hills shortly after. We'll be camping and fishing tonight and tomorrow and I can't friggen wait. Like Dave and his Dad, both my dad and I can sit in front of our laptops for hours on end - so we're leaving them behind and getting out of dodge. Don't expect any updates until Sunday or Monday.
On the xul-announce mailing list, I found Mike Dubinko's XForms Tutorial presentation (from the O'Reilly Open Source Conference
(OSCON) 2003 in Portland). Mike is author of the upcoming O'Reilly
XForms Essentials book (August 2003) and W3C XForms spec co-author.
Good stuff - I definitely enjoyed viewing the slides and can't wait for the browsers to support XForms.
I did some more playing with Tomcat 5.0.4 today - and converted appfuse to a JSP 2.0 application. After accomplishing this task, I created a "jsp-2" task that can (optionally) be run at build time, and whalla, you've got a Servlet 2.4/JSP 2.0 application. I learned a number of things in the process.
1. The expression language in JSP 2.0 replaces in JSTL is <c:out>, that's it. I was under the impression that I could use <c:if> or <c:forEach> tags without declaring the tag library URI, etc. I was wrong, if you want to use JSTL tags, you must import the declare the taglibs, just like you do now in Tomcat 4.x.
2. The EL is turned off by default if you have a 2.3 DTD for your web.xml. If you have a 2.4 XSD in web.xml, the EL is turned on by default. This means that you can write ${param.foo} and it will be analyzed when the EL is on (when off, it's not analyzed).
3. You can replace <html:rewrite page=""/> with <c:url value=""/> and get the same effect. The only difference is that html:rewrite is context and module-sensitive, whereas c:url is only context-sensitive.
4. I had to replace the URI's for JSTL core and fmt with their run-time URIs - http://java.sun.com/jstl/core_rt vs.
http://java.sun.com/jstl/core. Otherwise, I would get something similar to the the following error.
According to TLD or attribute directive in tag file, attribute test does not accept any expressions
I figure upgrading to JSTL 1.1 might solve this issue, but since it hasn't been released, why bother? So to convert appfuse to be a JSP 2.0 webapp, here's what my Ant task does:
I did some (rough) benchmarking of running my JSP tests, here are the results on a Pentium IV (2 GHz, 512 MB RAM).
start Tomcat, run tests, stop Tomcat:
Tomcat 4.1.24: 1 minute, 17 seconds
Tomcat 5.0.4: 1 minute, 7 seconds
Tomcat 5.0.4/JSP 2.0: 1 minute, 3 seconds
run tests, Tomcat already started:
Tomcat 4.1.24: 33 seconds
Tomcat 5.0.4: 22 seconds
Tomcat 5.0.4/JSP 2.0: 22 seconds
According to these numbers, Tomcat 5 is quite a bit faster than 4.1.x.
Yesterday, Comcast showed up to install their cable internet service at our new house. Long story short: We bought a new house by DU, but haven't sold ours in Morrison yet. Hopefully it'll sell soon, or we'll be stuck paying two mortgages. I have to give a glowing review to Comcast and how everything was executed in setting up our service. One week ago, I signed up for (and scheduled) an appointment online to have Comcast High-Speed Internet installed. They called me to confirm my appointment two days before, and then gave me a 2 hour window that I had to be at the house. The guy showed up 5 minutes early, and was done 15 minute early. Sweet! We have nothing else in the new place (we haven't moved yet), but we have internet access - yeah baby, yeah.
I'm very impressed - it only took one week to get high-speed internet. Remember the days when it would takes months from the time you ordered DSL until it got installed? I'm pumped too because it's cable, which is the fastest IMO. I have friends in town with DSL and friends with cable; cable is much, much faster (~ 2MB down). You might think I'm biased because I currently work at Comcast. At Comcast, not for Comcast - I'm just a contractor, no benefits for me. The lucky bastards I work with get cable and high-speed internet for free - not to mention a TV in their office/cube (if they want).
