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.
From James Strachan:
* there are various XML editing plugins available (X-men, xmlbuddy).
Though for simple stuff, just enable the Ant plugin for all XML
documents. The Ant plugin has a simple colour coded XML editor.
To enable it, open the Preferences window (Window -> Preferences) then go to Workbench -> File Associations.
Then for *.xml add the Ant plugin association.
Nice! I've been wondering about that. Very cool - thanks James.
After reading Hani's comments about Freeroller's abysmal performance (which I agree does suck), I sent the following e-mail to Novosoft:
Any chance you'd like to donate a copy of your software to the Roller Weblogger open-source project (http://rollerweblogger.org). We could really use a stress-test tool like yours. We're using it at my day job and it works great.
Their software is a load and stress testing tool that a co-worker discovered and it works awesome. At my day job, we know that if 17 users click on the same button at the precise same time, then Hibernate (or maybe it's Oracle) will throw a deadlocking error. We doubt that we'll ever get 17 concurrent users, so it's not an issue for us, but it's nice to know.
Anyway, their software is $250, which is a little steep for any open source project. However, I was delighted to find that they obliged my e-mail and sent me a license this morning!
Dear Matt, Thank you for your feedback and your warm words regarding our product! We have decided to grant you registration key for our product WAPT 2.0.
Sweet! Now I just have to find time to create these tests, or maybe one of the other Roller Developers has time?
Expected delivery date: August 8th
#1 reason to switch back? Speed, and lots of it. ;0)
As I mentioned a couple days ago, I'm looking to purchase a new laptop. Why? Because I might get a contract that requires me to provide my own machine. It's happened before, and on this contract my machine sucked when I started. Sure I could use my slow-as-molasses Powerbook (667 MHz, 1 GB RAM), but I'd rather buy a Windows laptop. Besides, it's not about the machine's productivity as much as my productivity on it. I'm faster on Windows, so I should buy a Windows machine to pack to client sites. Mini-Me (the Powerbook) will be adopted by Julie, where I'm sure it will be in good hands. I still plan on using it a fair amount, but she's been known to tell me "Keep your damn hands off my computer!" ;-)
So, to do some more research on the Alienware Area-51m and the Hibersonic Aviator ZX7, I sent each company an e-mail. The e-mail was pretty simple, and I just switched the order of things for each company:
I'm looking to purchase a new laptop and right now I'm down to making a decision between your 51m (http://alienware.com/system_pages/area-51m.aspx) and Hypersonic's ZX7 (http://hypersonic-pc.com/ZX7). Can you tell me why I should buy your product over Hypersonic's?
About 10 hours later (a little slow, don't you think), I received the first reply - from Hypersonic.
Fair enough, Hypersonic has a Customer Satisfaction rating of 7.79, but less than 20 reviews in the last 6 months. Alienware, on the other hand, has a 7.78 Customer Satisfaction Rating. So they're very close there. However, on the lifetime rating, Alienware is 7.63 (275 reviews) and Hypersonic is 9.17 (48 reviews). When I first started this comparison, I liked the Alienware machine better because it has 802.11g and because I've heard of the company before. I'd never heard of Hypersonic, but the ZX7 did have built-in bluetooth, a 17" monitor and a (supposedly) kick ass sound system. I don't travel, and if I do, it's usually for pleasure and I can always take Mini-Me.
So I replied to the Hypersonic e-mail above.
And I recieved a reply 6 1/2 hours later:
All good answers to my questions. So I'm feeling pretty good about Hypersonic at this point, and still haven't heard from Alienware. And then I got a response from them, almost 30 hours after I sent my original e-mail. It took about 4 sentences for me to realize they were just sending me a standard form-letter, filled with arrogance.
In the end, both still sound good, but I like the Bluetooth, 17" screen and sound system on the Hypersonic. I decided last night that I should probably buy this now, instead of waiting for a new contract. I want one too bad to pass up the opportunity (and it's a business write-off). At the new house, Raible Designs' HQ will be in the basement, so we'll be relying on our 802.11b network to surf the web, check e-mail, etc. from upstairs. I moved to two computers years ago because Julie and I would fight over one. It's bound to happen again unless we have two wireless laptops. How's that for justification?! I'm saving our marriage! 
I found Rowell Sotto's blog today via David Czarnecki. I immediately fell in love with Rowell's Moveable Type theme, and decided to implement in Roller. It was actually pretty easy. Check it out on my test site at http://raibledesigns.com/page/test. Things to do:
Good stuff - awesome theme Rowell!
Thanks to Min, we now have searching in Roller. He wrote a wicked-ass Lucene implementation using the util.concurrent package from Doug Lea. Here's how it works:
I created a #showSearchForm macro that renders a <form> with a textbox (size=20) and a "Search" submit button. I also added this to all the current themes - so if you developed a theme for Roller - you might want to check it out (username: test, passwd: roller). You can edit it right on the site if you want, then copy/send me the adjusted files. CSS seems to need the most tweaking for these to look right.
Please enter any bugs/enhancements in Roller's JIRA instance. The only one I've seen so far is that a user has to build their index manually before they get any search results. I don't know that this is a bug, just wanted to mention it. Doesn't get comments yet either - a NPE from weblogMgr.getComments() (when adding a new post) kept me banging my head against the wall for an hour - so I commented it out.
Try it, you might like it. ;-)
2 minutes later: Here's a bug - if you update an entry numerous times, it will get presented as numerous times (should be deleted and re-indexed).
Tim Bray (founder of XML) has posted a blog story titled "The Door Is
Ajar" that is a call to arms for building a better
browser and leaving the Internet Exploder era behind
us.
Down with IE. I support this even thought Mozilla Firebird just crashed as I was trying to write this. Now I'm using IE because it doesn't crash nearly as much as Firebird. Can't anyone fix the "I crash when I give you remembered drop-down choices" bug? It's been crashing my Phoenix/Firebird installations since the beginning (on different machines, all Windows boxes)!
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).
I was born on this day 29 years ago, at 4:30 in the morning. I was born at the cabin, with only my dad (who is a Navy man, not a doctor) to assist. I came out with my umbilical cord wrapped around my neck and my whole head was blue. This had to be quite a surprise for my parents, doing the home birth and all. My dad, always good at thinking fast, grabbed his hunting knife from his belt and sliced that puppy off in a split second. And that's why I'm here today.
Ever since I worked at eDeploy.com, where they gave us our birthday's off, I've continued to take the day off. So today, there will be none of this blog checking, e-mail reading nonsense (save for an early morning peak) - but rather a whole bunch of goofing off, playing with my favorite ladies, and possibly some indulgence into a few of my favorite savory Colorado microbrews.
AOL has cut or will cut the remaining team working on Mozilla in a mass firing and are dismantling what was left of Netscape (they've even pulled the logos off the buildings). [MozillaZine]
The good news is they've started the Mozilla Foundation:
The Mozilla Foundation
is a new non-profit organization that will serve
as the home for mozilla.org. As before, mozilla.org will coordinate and
encourage the development and testing of Mozilla code. The Mozilla
Foundation will also promote the distribution and adoption of our flagship
applications based on that code. AOL, Sun Microsystems, Red Hat,
and other companies will continue to support Mozilla through the Foundation.
What this means for the Mozilla browser and our other products and
technologies: more innovation from the open source developers, and a
greater focus on end users.
Read the press release and our
newsgroup
announcement.
I dig the new look for mozilla.org, nice work Ben!
