Great American Beer Festival
Next week: The Great American Beer Festival. I just got an e-mail saying they've accepted me as a volunteer on the Brew Crew. Should be a good time.
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
- A Delightful Trip to Devnexus
- Funemployment 2024
- 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!
New Desktop?
While I'm seriously thinking about a new PowerBook, the more important item on the agenda is refreshing my desktop. It's a P4 1.5 GHz (1 MB RAM) Dell Dimension 8100. I like Windows XP and I love writing Java in it - moreso than any other OS (really!). So I owe it to myself to speed things up a bit on my primary development box. So I went searching on eBay and found I can get a much better machine (almost twice as fast) for only $800. Do you think that's a good deal? I sure do...
Test driving the new PowerBooks
I called my local Apple Store today to see if they had any new PowerBooks in. They did (though they've sold out of their 15" with combo/super drives for the day), and now I'm here test-driving the 17" with 1.33 Mhz and 512 MB RAM. It wouldn't be right if I didn't compare this machine against these performance numbers. So here goes:
- Opening Eclipse (3.0 M2): 10 seconds
- Opening Photoshop (7.0.1): 8 seconds
- Running "ant rebuild" on Roller (0.9.7.3): 32 seconds (ooh, this actually beats the 2 GHz machine I had at Comcast, by 4 seconds).
- Running "ant clean package-web" on AppFuse (0.9.1): 21 seconds (3 seconds slower than the 2 GHz Pentium)
I'm not as disappointed as I thought I'd be. Good thing I left my wallet in the car!