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.
Scripting.com gave me the link to Plaxo. Plaxo takes the hassle out of keeping your (Outlook) contact list up-to-date. I downloaded and installed - sounds cool.
Update: Uh oh! I appears that my use of this product is backfiring as it's sending messages to all the mailing lists in my address book. I'm going to run and hide now.
Remember this post? I wrote about how much I liked Michael's photo album software. Well, lo and behold, he heard me and sent this e-mail:
Matt,
Hi, and thanks for the mention on your site. =)
My photo album stuff was a reworking in PHP of some other photo album/gallery things I'd seen. Of course everyone is looking for something specific, and I was no different, so I decided I needed to make one with what I wanted. That meant it also had to be XHTML and CSS compliant, and I decided on an all CSS layout for ease of updating (that, and I love CSS, heh).
It's basically a three-tiered approach, with thumbnails, medium-sized images and hi-res versions. It's just one main file in a root directory, and a CSS file, title file, and optional pic info/annotation file in each photo directory. Since the program uses the CSS file in each directory, I can create a different layout for each album. I did a couple of minor changes in some of them just to show that they don't all have to look the same.
What it doesn't do:
Currently it does not do any real image handling such as creating thumbnails. I do all the image editing manually and compile a directory of photos (with their respective subdirectories) and just upload it. The program sees the directory automatically.
Also currently, you have to have all 3 versions of photos. I haven't incorporated an option to replace thumnails with text links, or to use/not use hi-res images.
I plan on putting some of these things in before making the whole thing freely available for public consumption, but if you'd like a copy of it as it is, I'd be happy to send it along with a brief intro on how to use it.
Again, thanks for the mention and the kind words.
Take care.
--michael
I responded to his e-mail and I now have this software in my Inbox - what a guy, eh? Thanks Michael! Now if I can only find the time to experiment and (possibly) implement.
There's a blog over at freeroller.net that is using a slightly altered x2 theme. X stands for XHTML and 2 stands for 2 columns (I contributed this theme to Roller, so that's how I know). Anyway, the writer, kdub, seems to like what I'm serving.
Great stuff from Raible Matt Raible is a great guy. I have been reading his weblog for a few months and he has been covering OS X, Roller, Struts, HTML/CSS, and Java which works well with my tastes. I need to congradulate him on his new daughter!
Thanks for the Abbie love - now it's your turn kdub - tell us about yourself. We want to hear about you, the person, not just your interests.
Zeldman points us to iStockPhoto.
iStockPhoto is a collection of over 26,000 royalty-free photos, illustrations, and multimedia files created by a growing international community of artists. The site adds around 1,000 new royalty-free photos each week.
You get 2 free downloads for signing up (or at least I did) and you can purchase 40 download credits (I'm assuming 1 credit per image) for $10. Not a bad deal if you need stock images for a site.
From my Inbox: We are proud to announce the launch of DMXzone. DMXzone is a merger between UDzone, MXzone and DWzone! This is one of the first HTML-ed e-mails I've received where they used CSS instead of <font> tags everywhere.
Of your favorite open source products for OS X. My favs are among them: MySQL, Apache and Tomcat - all the latest versions.
Even though my RSS still does not validate, the latest beta of NetNewsWire seems to support relative links. One small step for webloggers, now if we could only get the RSS spec leads on board.
Like Dave said:
There are lots of little problems with Roller's UI, lots of room for improvements, and lots of missing weblogging features. Make sure the issues that are bugging you get into Roller's JIRA issue tracker. Look at the list of issues that are not yet assigned to a release and vote on the ones that are most important to you. You can also view the currently most popular issues.
So help us improve Roller and the world will be a better place - or at least our part of the world will be...
I really like the comments feature because it's as if I have hidden treasures waiting for me on my site. Like the demanding, never-satisfied client, I now ask - can we add the last 20 comments feature like MiniBlog has?
I logged this bug many moons ago (December 19, 2001) - and tonight it appears to have been fixed!! This is sweeter than all getout in my opinion. This means that adding <html:html xhtml="true"> to the top of your JSP when using Struts will render XHTML-compliant markup. I haven't tested it yet - thanks David Graham!
