Project Migration to Angular 2: Bootstrap Part 1

The migration of a working application to a more recent platform brings some risks. Generally, some functions cannot be reproduced as is and it takes many times. I wish to move a simple client, programmed using a mix of JavaScript and AngularJS, to Angular 2.

Build & Deploy Angular 2 Projects

I have built the front end of some WEB applications using AngularJS. Now I would like to move it to Angular 2. The first step is learning about Angular 2 and to figure out how to migrate the AngularJS code. The second step is to build the project for deployment on a WEB container which is not the NodeJs WEB server used for development.

Android 6.0 on HTC ONE M7

The Internet offers quite a lot of step by step instructions on how to flash an Android device with a different ROM (Firmware). The most of them tell you how to do it and are really well for a defined device and a defined software. I'm a developer and I like to have some more options. I don't want to write a general flashing manual. The aim is to share some useful information about flashing.

Springboot mutlipart upload

The upload works very well for many use cases but I want to handle the upload with an AJAX client. As soon as the upload exceeds the limits the embedded servlet container fires an unhandled exception and the Javascript client doesn't receive any suitable answer from the server.

Webfonts mime types with Springboot

Springboot (1.2.5) per default doesn't have mime mapping for WEB fonts (glyphicons).

Maven build and Webfonts.

The build of a Maven project containing WEB fonts may be broken.

Inexpensive Development E-Mail Server

A common issue using the company e-mail server for development is SPAM which, sooner or later, will reach the customer or a third party. To avoid the problem I did use a very good dummy e-mail server the Dumbster. In May, last year, I had to send HTML formatted mails from my application and test the result on the most common E-Mail clients.

The Dumbster wasn't enough anymore, but I didn't want to install/configure a true e-mail server and maintain it. My new choice is Apache James because it is quite simple to setup and use. It supports MSOutlook and Thunderbird (and many other which I didn't really check).

Backup of the PostgreSQL Database

At the end of the project I had to set up a simple but reliable backup for the PostgreSQL database. If you have some interest, I did describe the environment in a previous article "Ubuntu Server as Inexpensive Platform for J2EE". Here I describe the backup on that platform. With less changes the scripts works also on other UNIXes. The principle may be also used on MS Windows, but the implementation will be different.