Doin' the Netflix thing
I got inspired by Matt's post about Netflix and I signed up on Sunday. 3 DVDs arrived in the mail today. Nice! That was quick. The question is - will they have the same new releases that Blockbuster does?
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.
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.
RECENT ENTRIES
- 20 years ago today, I bought a VW Bus
- 2023 - A Year in Review
- Goodbye, DU House. Thanks for all the memories!
- Happy Birthday, Abbie!
- Summer 2023: Colorado, Montana, and Cape Cod
- Happy Birthday, Jack!
- Farewell to the 2022-2023 Ski Season
- The Angular Mini-Book 3.0 is now available!
- The JHipster Mini-Book v7.0 Released!
- 2022 - A Year in Review
HowTo: Using XDoclet's StrutsForm and a 41KB j2ee.jar
To generate Struts' ActionForms using XDoclet, you need to have j2ee.jar in your classpath. Did you know you can trim it down to 41 KB and get all the functionality you need? Learn more...
My tips o' the day
I found an easy way to update a MySQL database with new columns this morning. The traditional way is to create an ALTER_TABLE script and run it. However, I had added more than 30 columns, and creating this script sounded like a pain in the ass. Keep in mind that I use Hibernate to create my database from scratch - tables, and all. If you're familiar with appfuse, you might be able to use this stuff.
- Dump the existing (production) database using "mysqldump -c database > database.sql". Edit this file, replacing CREATE TABLE with CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS. The "-c" option includes column names in the insert statement.
- Create an empty database (appfuse: ant db-init) and export (mysqldump database > create-tables.sql) it.
- Drop all the tables in the production database (backup first!), mysql < create-tables.sql followed by mysql < database.sql.
Of course, other suggestions are welcome - I'd love to see a mysql diff tool that generates the ALTER script for me!
My other tip is how to start/stop Windows services from the command line - don't know why I haven't used this sooner.
net start "$serviceName"
Where $serviceName is something like "Apache Tomcat 4.1" - use "net start" to see all currently started services.