Phoenix 0.4 Released
Phoenix 0.4 is now available. This release features type ahead find and improvements to the address bar, tabbed browsing, toolbar customization, popup blocking, themes, and more. Downloading now...
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.
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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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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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.NET vs. J2EE Performance
If you've read this thread or this story at The Server Side, you owe it to yourself to read Rickard's rebuttal.
In other news, Simon Stewart (no blog to my knowledge) has sent me the font I needed, and therefore iCal is working again. What a guy - thanks Simon!
iCal Quits - Helvetica Neue Needed!
My latest problem in Mini-Me's resurrection is that iCal quits when I open it. According to this article, it's because I've somehow lost my Helvetica Neue font from my /Library/Fonts folder. You would think after my Archive Install, I'd get this back. Harrumph, I've searched my hard drive, searched the Jaguar install disks, and I've even asked folks in the Apple Knowledge Base to send me the font - but no luck yet. So I'm asking you, my OS X-using readers, can you send me this font? Apple's support seems to suck.
Also, I'm jealous of Dave's ability to attend the meeting on Eclipse tonight. Hoping this is a touring preso, I looked up my local Websphere User Group - but it doesn't appear to be coming here.
The picture on the right is for Russell, I bet he wishes he was in Denver right now - 6 inches and counting!
First Snow
This view is what we woke up to this morning. Julie cringed and moaned, while I yelled "yeeee haaawww!" It motivated me to buy my ski pass for this year and I can't wait for my first 9" day...
Some Roller Love
I keep forgetting to send Matt a big fat Thank You for the improvements to Roller's interface, which looks much cleaner and more professional. So here it is: Thanks Matt!
You gotta love compliments! Lance - you're welcome, it was my pleasure. 
Sun ONE App Server 7
I downloaded and installed the Sun ONE App Server 7 this morning (on WinXP). Install was about 100 times easier than they used to be. I actually became an expert at installing iPlanet because they asked you so many damn questions, and answering one wrong could screw up your whole installation. I must've installed iPlanet 2.1-6 over 200 times! Good to see that almost anyone can do it now. My first test was to see if the struts-example app ran properly. I'm happy to report it did - with no errors visible on the UI. This is the first Sun app server release that this is possible on. Here's what I had to do in the past to get Struts running on iPlanet. I did see two errors in the log file while running Struts though:
WARNING: Error: JAXP SAXParser property not recognized: http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/properties/schemaLanguage
and
INFO: Processing a 'POST' for path '/saveSubscription' SEVERE: Database save java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.io.FilePermission D:\Tools\Sun\AppServer7\domains\domain1\server1\ applications\j2ee-modules\struts-example_1\WEB-INF\database.xml.old delete)
I'm sure both of these could be easily fixed with a little digging. The admin UI is much better - now an HTML UI rather than a Swing UI - appears to be powered by JATO. Deploying was super-simple, browse for WAR file, click upload. I especially like the option to pre-compile all the JSPs.
In other news, I attemted to use an Atomz (free) search engine last night to index this site, and it appears I have too much to use the free (500 page) service. I might try it anyway, but here's my stats:
Your site is larger than the index size limits that our Express product allows.
...
It took 1 hour to crawl 2324 pages and index 510 pages containing 448497 words for a total of 52432830 bytes. 6112 word endings, 0 synonyms, and 3350 sound-alike words were included in the index.
RSS to iCal Converter
The RSSiCal converter appears to be what I've been looking for. I'd like to duplicate Roller's Big Calendar feature, but give it the look and feel of an iCal. When I run my rss feed through this tool, I get a bunch of text output (using IE 5.0/Win). I'd love a way to convert to the Aqua-fied look and feel on the fly.
Should I learn PHP?
It probably wouldn't take very long to learn, and it seems like a lot of folks like it. Is it worth it - a.k.a. will it get me more clients?
According to The FuzzyBlog!, Yahoo likes it. Read why Yahoo will use PHP over all other open source technologies. Personally, I think they chose PHP because they have the inventor working for them.
I think I'll pass on learning it at this time - I'm having to much fun with Java and all it's goodies.
Sun ONE will be free, and maybe Solaris?
From CNET News:
The company said it has released two new versions of its Sun ONE Application Server 7. The Platform Edition is available as a free download for Solaris and Windows operating systems. The Standard Edition includes additional management tools and costs $2,000 per server processor.
Maybe Sun is listening to Russell, because they've really started to pick things up lately. If you look at their homepage, it's all about this download. Too bad there's no Linux/OS X version. I doubt I can hack the Solaris version to work on OS X - though I was able to hack the Solaris J2EE RI to work. I've heard great things about the 7.0 version of the app server. I hope it does well.
Bias Alert: I've worked with Netscape/iPlanet application server since NAS 2.1 and have detailed knowledge how everything works/doesn't work. So my hoping for a better version is definitely tied to my existing knowledge and hopes of leveraging it with folks hoping to implement a Sun ONE Solution. Also, I am certified to teach iPlanet courses for Sun and I'd love to start getting more teaching gigs - they've been non-existent lately.
Mac OS X Customization
Marc Liyanage has created a nice list of things to help your average OS X user. At the very bottom, it even supplies the color ls that I was looking for!
For you developers that use OS X, you've probably heard of Marc before, he gives us great installers for all kinds of goodies, ranging from MySQL to VIM, and even provides instructions on getting Apache setup with SSL on Mac OS X.