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.
I have a bunch of PDF's that I need to search for text values. Does anyone know of a package or set of utilities that will do this? Preferably open-source and cross-platform. However, I will accept any and all suggestions.
I'm tempted to upgrade to Roller 0.9.6-rc1, but if it's going to change in the next few hours/days, I'd hate to have to update everything twice. So I guess I'll wait. It's actually quite a chore for me to upgrade (an hour or so) because I've customized the web.xml for a private weblog, and I've put symlinks all over to point to other sites and skins.
Brian Pontarelli has written an article about the recent Java Server Faces specification from Sun. I received an e-mail from him this morning via the Denver JUG - a little search on Google seems to indicate he works for BEA.
New Roller Client. I found that BlogApp works to post to Roller. Very cool! The software seems to support titles - meaning you can specify html to go around the title, but it doesn't post it to the "title" field in the roller database.
I guess this means I should update my local CVS version of Roller and attempt to migrate this site. Maybe later - I've already worked 5 hours today - on a Sunday! It's disgusting - time to go watch the Broncos...
Do you use Yahoo Mail and don't want to pay for POP3 access? Well, I stumbed upon a new tool tonight when I was surfing the roller-cvs link below. YahooPOPs! is a free download for Windows/Linux that makes it possible to get your Yahoo Mail in out Outlook Inbox (or any other POP3 client). I downloaded and installed, and I'm currently watching a dialog that says "Email download status for matt_raible. Downloading email 1 of 15." It's been 2-3 minutes and I haven't received anything yet. Good idea though - I'd LOVE it if this thing works. Is there an OS X version?
If you're subscribed to the roller-cvs mailing list - you can see that Dave is checking in stuff like a madman tonight! I think that's how most open source projects are successful - one guy writes it, works his butt off and everyone else tags along for the ride. Am I wrong? Let me know - but that seems to be how Struts got started by Craig. Notice that I said started - it's not how it is today.
For those that aren't up to speed on JSTL, here's a new tutorial: Faster Development with JavaServer PagesTM Standard Tag Library (JSTL 1.0). Also, this Tuesday, Craig McClanahan and Amy Fowler, Spec leads of JSF, will host a live chat on JSF. The bad part, it's at 8:00 AM Eastern time which means that I'll have to get up at 6:00 to catch it. I'm a pretty good morning person, so shouldn't be too hard. I've been practicing for the little one lately by going to bed between midnight and 2:00 AM and then waking up again at 6:00 AM. Hope it works.
If you're having a bad week or day, all you have to do is read Russ's situation to feel better.
Russell Beattie
has had a tough week, but he is OK - at least in the physical world. In the
digital world of cyberspace, however, he is not doing so well. First, he
lost his client by accidentally installing Linux over his Windows partition.
Next, he lost his server because his ISP, CWIHosting.com,
has mysteriously shut down his account. CWIHosting tells him this is because
of "police reasons." The CWIHosting support people told him that he needs
to email the CTO and CEO to get any further information. Unfortunately, they
are not responding to his emails. He is a little worried that he might not
be allowed to get into his account and rescue his weblog archives. That is
a scary thought.
Russell thinks that "police reasons" might be actually be a mis-spelling
of "policy reasons" and perhaps he simply overloaded his shared Java VM by
misconfiguring something when he set up OSCache. I hope that is the case.
Anyway, Russell is setting up a new account at JohnCompanies.com ISP and hopes to be back on line by Monday or Tuesday. [ Blogging Roller ]
Russ seems like a pretty wholesome guy to me, so I'm guessing it's policy reasons not policing reasons. Nothing like having your site locked out to motivate you to switch hosting providers. I dream of the day, as I'm sure many of you do, that I can host my own site, and not worry about these things. I can't because my ISP doesn't give out static IPs. At the same time, kgbinternet.com hosts this site for $12/month and I get my own Tomcat instance!
I found a cool Mozilla feature while writing this post. I went to Dave's site to copy Russ's story, selected the story, and found "View Selection Source" on my right-click menu. What could be more beautiful on a Saturday afternoon? Me being done with work for the week, but no - I probably have another 10-12 hours to put in this weekend. It's gonna be a late night tonight.
I found another tasty treat on Ken Bereskin's Radio Weblog:
Today's feature: FTP servers mount in the Finder. Go to the Connect to Server... command in the Finder and type in a valid ftp URL (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org for example). Voila, the server is available as a mounted, read-only volume.
