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.
Found at Mac Rumors:
The 10.2.2 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications and technologies: Address Book, iChat, IP Firewall, Mail, Print Center, Rendezvous, Sherlock and Windows file service discovery. The update also includes the updated services previously delivered in Security Update 2002-09-20. [ learn more... ]
Sweet! There's a great game on the tube tonight. Broncos vs. Raiders (a HUGE rivalry in these parts) in the 500th Monday Night Football game. Go Broncos!
Click on the cute little Broncos Cheerleader (Abbie) for some pictures from this weekend.
Macromedia has released a trial version and QuickTime videos of it's newest app, cleverly named Contribute. It looks pretty cool, though I don't know many business types who want to edit/update their own website. They usually prefer to just have someone do the updates for them. I think it'll flop unless it's super cheap - like $50 or something.
Update: I found a good review here.
Update 2: Zeldman says $99 bucks.
Lance did some nice work on Roller this weekend and implemented the much-desired Comments feature. Nice job Lance!
It also seems that Eclipse 2.0.2 was quietly released on Friday (it says Thursday on the downloads page, Friday on the dev mailing list). This update does not appear to be available from Help > Software > Update Manager. Hopefully it will be soon. Does IDEA have an upgrade within the IDE feature?
Mike seems to have reduced his blogging frequency as of late, but when he does write, it's good stuff.
OpenSymphony has a new Wiki online, powered by SnipSnap. It should be useful for on-the-fly documentation writing and tip sharing. Already the WebWork Cookbook has moved there and got some extra contributions!
... and ...
For those of you not using IDEA, can your IDE do all this?
IDEA has always looked good to me and I agree that it's a great IDE. But I can't argue with Eclipse's price! And Eclipse seems to be getting a lot more users of late - I'll bet it ends up with more users simply on price. I tried talking with the IDEA folks a while back about discounted pricing for a one-man show. They said it sounded good, but no thanks. At least they responded. And I found myself only starting IDEA when I really needed it. I find myself starting Eclipse every time I edit a .java file. I also found this review of IDEA 3.0 on JDJ's site, and learned that IDEA 3.0 will be available for download tomorrow.
I got the idea from Dave and now I've implemented it on this site. To add one to your site, copy and paste the following code and adjust the site URL accordingly. NOTE: This is the XHTML Strict version, if you want a Transitional version, view source on Dave's site.
<form id="searchForm" method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search"
style="margin: 0; padding: 0" onsubmit="search()">
<input type="text" name="q" size="20" maxlength="255"
value="search this site" style="font-size: 11px"
onfocus="this.value=''" />
<input type="submit" name="sa" value="go"
style="font-size: 11px; padding: 2px; line-height: 1" />
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function search() {
form = document.getElementById('searchForm');
form.q.value = form.q.value + " site:www.raibledesigns.com";
form.submit();
}
//-->
</script>
I initially found that the latest issue of A List Apart was published via web-graphics.com and then got this tidbit from Zeldman:
In Issue 154 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: âFlash Satayâ by Drew McLellan. "This site uses Flash. This site validates as XHTML. They said it couldnât be done. Now it can be. Have your Flash and standards, too." Please note, the ALA server may be slower than normal due to heavy traffic.
The technique involves using the following code:
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="c.swf?path=movie.swf" width="400" height="300"> <param name="movie" value="c.swf?path=movie.swf" /> <img src="noflash.gif" width="200" height="100" alt="" /> </object>
Where c.swf is a container movie to workaround the fact that IE/Windows doesnât stream the movie with this code.
Drew McLellan is the author of Dreamweaver MX Web Development and a member of The Web Standards Projectâs Dreamweaver Task Force. You can follow the progress of this technique on his site.
WebGraphics also has an interesting post with a list of reasons why ease of use doesn't happen on engineering projects - uiweb.com
The first week has been awesome! Abbie is the best baby. I have to admit that I don't know many newborns, but from what my friends/family has told me - the first few weeks home with the baby are hell. They said she would be crying all night, we'd have massive sleep deprivation and our lives would be changed for ever. They were right that our lives would be changed forever, but mostly because we're such proud parents and we love our daughter so much. She's been sleeping for 3 hours, waking up, feeding and then falling asleep again. The only time she gets crabby is when Julie goes to bed and it's my turn to take care of her. Then she tries to nurse on me, which doesn't work too well. Thank God for pacifiers - that saves me when I'm trying to convince Abber not to yell at me. I've been getting a full nights sleep every night, but that's because Julie is breastfeeding and gets up every 3 hours to nurse. Soon we'll be filling some extra bottles so I can join in the midnight/3am feedings - that should be fun. You might be seeing some late-night-posts then.
Grammy (Julie's mom) and Aunt Holly (Julie's sister) are in town this weekend, and have given us lots of love by stocking our fridge and changing Abbie's diaper. One of my best friends, Kevin Navarro, also came over last night and cooked us some of the best tostadas I've ever had!
Mesh on MX told us about DevMX this morning:
A new Macromedia MX site launched last week. DevMX.com is a resource site focusing on all Macromedia MX products. Aside from having a pretty sweet interface, there is already some good content online.
I haven't looked at it yet, but it does look interesting, so this post is my own personal bookmark.
Erik tipped us off about the J2EE 1.4 Beta and some good J2EE vs. Petstore articles. After logging into download the 1.4 Beta, I found the feature list and figured I'd let you know:
The platform features complete Web services support through the new JAX-RPC 1.0 API, which supports service endpoints based on servlets and enterprise beans. JAX-RPC 1.0 provides interoperability with Web services based on the WSDL and SOAP protocols. The J2EE 1.4 platform also supports the Web Services for J2EE specification (JSR 109), which defines deployment requirements for Web services and utilizes the JAX-RPC programming model. The J2EE 1.4 platform introduces the J2EE Management 1.0 API, which defines the information model for J2EE management, including standard Management EJB (MEJB). The J2EE Management 1.0 API uses the Java Management Extensions (JMX) and supports standard management protocols, including SNMP, WBEM and CIM. The J2EE 1.4 platform also introduces the J2EE Deployment 1.1 API, which standardizes the deployment of J2EE applications.
The Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) includes enhancements to the Java Servlet and JavaServer PagesTM (JSPTM) technologies. Servlets now support request listeners and enhanced filters. JSP technology has simplified the page and extension development models with the introduction of a simple expression language, tag files, and a simpler tag extension API, among other features. The J2EE Connector Architecture provides incoming resource adapter and Java Message Service (JMS) pluggability. Enhancements to Enterprise JavaBeansTM (EJBTM) technology include Web service endpoints, a timer service, and enhancements to EJB QL and message driven beans. The J2EE 1.4 platform also includes enhancements to deployment descriptors, which are now defined using XML Schema.
Recent report on J2EE vs .NET Relies on "Highly Flawed Methodology" says BEA.
Benchmark Bust-Up: The Middleware Company Responds.
It looks like Rickard might be published in the next issue of JDJ.
"To Do" this weekend:
Download and see if iBlog works with Roller. Recommendation via Russell and Dave Winer. Hmmm, after looking at Dave's iBlog sites, it appears to be software to run a blog, not post to one. My I-don't-need-this filter has kicked into effect.
Download and install JDK 1.4.1 Developer Preview 5 for Mac OS X. Tip o' the hat to Erik. A needed update considering the last 1.4.1 release didn't even run Tomcat for me.