Raible Designs

Devnexus is one of my favorite conferences in the world. I have many fond memories of attending over the years and some awkward ones, too. My first memory is when Micah Silverman and I worked a...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/a_delightful_trip_to_devnexus

On February 1, I woke up to an unexpected email from my employer. > "Today, Okta made the decision to eliminate a number of positions > across multiple organizations. Unfortunate...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/funemployment_2024

On this day, 20 years ago, I bought a 1996 21-Window VW Bus . That morning, I found the listing on eBay and decided to buy it if the University of Denver (my alma mater) won the national college ...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/20_years_ago_today_i

2023 started with a celebration of love in the Philippines . Trish and I traveled with friends to El Nido and Manila to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. It was a two-week trip that fill...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/2023_a_year_in_review

On the weekend before I joined Stormpath as a full-time employee in 2016 , we bought a house in the countryside and moved out of the city. We'd been looking for a while and finally found a place...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/goodbye_du_house_thanks_for

Our oldest child turned 21 today! She's a junior at the University of Colorado in Boulder, living in an apartment with three roommates. Abbie is a joy to be around because she's always smiling an...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/happy_birthday_abbie17

I've been remiss in writing about my month-long summer vacation. Mostly because life moves pretty fast with Jack heading off to college, things getting busy at work, and lots of wonderful weeken...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/summer_2023_colorado_montana_and

Today is a monumental day in the life of Jack Raible. Not only is today his 19th birthday, but it's also his first day of classes at the University of Colorado. He moved in last week and had a we...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/happy_birthday_jack12

You can tell your Spring is a whirlwind when you don't have time to write your end-of-ski-season post until July! My ski season started way back in October, on Halloween at A-Basin, to be prec...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/farewell_to_the_2022_2023

I'm excited to announce that the Angular Mini-Book 3.0 is now available! You can download it in PDF and EPUB formats from InfoQ . ABOUT THIS BOOK The Angular Mini-Book is a guide to gettin...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/the_angular_mini_book_3

The JHipster Mini-Book v7.0 is now available as a free download from InfoQ . Get it while it's hot! 🔥 You can read more about this release on the JHipster Mini-Book blog . The source cod...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/the_jhipster_mini_book_v7

When 2022 started, I was excited to start traveling again. We started things off with a trip to Mexico and worked remotely from the Cabo San Lucas marina for a couple of weeks. In March, the kid...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/2022_a_year_in_review

About a year ago, our friends Aris and Jen mentioned they were going to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary in the Philippines. Trish and I said "we'll go!" before they even invited us. Not ...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/celebrating_love_in_the_philippines

I'm a big fan of LinkedIn . I'm biased because I worked there from 2007-8, have alumni privileges like a free pro account, and learned how to unsubscribe from all their emails over a decade ago. ...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/questions_about_jhipster_jhipster_lite

Our awesome daughter, Abbie, turns 20 today! She's a sophomore at the University of Colorado in Boulder and lives in her sorority house this year. There are around 100 girls living in the house, ...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/happy_birthday_abbie16

Our youngest child turned 18 today. He's embarked on his senior year of high school and has a good group of friends he likes to hang out with. They celebrated his birthday last night at the Kid C...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/happy_birthday_jack11

This blog was started on August 1, 2002 — 20 years ago yesterday! It's amazing to look back at my first month of blogging and see how many times I'd post per day. Most posts are only a senten...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/20_years_of_blogging

For the third year in a row, I took a long summer vacation thanks to Okta's unlimited vacation policy. > In 24 hours, I’ll be starting my summer vacation. @okta >  has an unlimi...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/summer_2022_family_adventures_in

I had a lot of fun this ski season, but I didn't make it to the mountains as much as I thought I would. I bought both the Epic and Ikon passes with high hopes at the beginning of the season. The ...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/farewell_to_the_2021_2022

TL;DR CALL YOUR MEMBER OF CONGRESS OR SENATOR IF YOU NEED HELP GETTING A PASSPORT APPOINTMENT. When we renewed our kids' passports in October 2021, it only took a few weeks for their new ones...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/how_to_renew_your_passport

I'm pumped to announce that the Angular Mini-Book 2.0 has been released! You can download it in PDF and EPUB formats from InfoQ . ABOUT THIS BOOK The Angular Mini-Book is a guide to gettin...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/the_angular_mini_book_2

I didn't expect to travel much in 2021, mostly because of my promise to myself to take a year off. When I got fully-vaxxed in April, I expected things to return to normal and we'd all be traveli...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/2021_a_year_in_review

I'm pleased to announce that the Angular Mini-Book has been released! You can download it in PDF and EPUB formats from InfoQ . ABOUT THIS BOOK The Angular Mini-Book is a guide to getting s...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/the_angular_mini_book_1

Our daughter, Abbie, turned 19 this week. She's having a fun freshman year at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She's in the Business and Computer Science Program , has a good attendance rec...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/happy_birthday_abbie15

Friends shouldn't let friends write CRUD apps. At least, not by hand. That's why I used a schematic called Angular CRUD in one of my last Angular + Spring Boot blog posts . That post is kinda old...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/announcing_angular_crud_2_0

July is one of my favorite months. It starts off with a national celebration, always has nice weather, and my birthday is smack dab in the middle of it. I have a habit of taking summer vacation f...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/summer_2021_family_fun_in

Jack turns 17 today! He's an ambitious kid these days that's interested in going to a hard engineering school for college. He mentioned this morning that he's going to try to and get into some of...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/happy_birthday_jack10

This ski season was interesting to say the least. Because of COVID-19, most Colorado ski resorts required reservations in order to ski. This wasn't too painful because we did most of our skiing d...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/farewell_to_the_2020_21

2020 was an interesting year. It started out pretty awesome, then came a global pandemic, a renewed interest in social justice, and lots of political news to keep your blood pressure up. Doomscro...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/2020_a_year_in_review

Abbie turns 18 today! Our little girl is now an adult. I couldn't be more proud. 🥳 I can't imagine being a high school student right now in these pandemic times, but she's handled it well...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/happy_birthday_abbie14

Yeehaw - today is Jack's 16th birthday! 🎉 He's been driving a lot in the last year and has a driver's license driving test this afternoon. If he passes, he'll be getting his license next week....

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/happy_birthday_jack9

As an American, have you ever wanted to take a month off like the European's do? I'm guessing you have! For the majority of my career, I've been an independent consultant, with unlimited vacatio...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/july_2020_rafting_riding_and

Every spring, I try to publish a blog post about our ski season adventures. As you can imagine, this year was a little different. This year, the ski season ended abruptly in mid-March due to COV...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/2019_2020_ski_season_quarantining

I recently finished reading Secure by Design by Dan Bergh Johnsson , Daniel Deogun , and Daniel Sawano . I started reading it shortly after I received it as a gift from Dan Bergh Johnsson at Jfo...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/secure_by_design_book_review

A little over a month ago, I purchased a Dell UltraSharp U3818DW 38" curved monitor. Previously, I had two 27" monitors ‐ an Apple Thunderbolt Display and an Asus 4K. I wanted to return to a...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/dell_ultrasharp_u3818dw_38_curved

Jfokus is one of my favorite conferences in the world. It takes place in Stockholm, Sweden, during one of the coldest months of the year. As a native Montanan, I love the winter season and skiing...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/a_fantastically_fun_february_at

Trish and I started 2020 with a fun trip to New Orleans to meet up with my family. My parents wanted to get out of the snowy cold of Montana, as did Kalin and Mya from Washington state. My Aunt M...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/january_jaunts_to_new_orleans

It's time for my year-in-review post! This post sets the record for being the most delayed, ever. Usually, I'm able to get it published by the end of January. Oh well, I hope you enjoy it! In 2...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/2019_a_year_in_review

Abbie turns 17 today! It's hard to believe, but true. For those that've followed me since the early 2000s, you might remember I announced her birth on this very same blog. It's crazy to think ...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/happy_birthday_abbie13

Wahoo! Jack turned 15 today and got his learner's permit for driving!! His first DMV experience was short and sweet, and the drive home was nerve-wracking (for both of us). He was terrified to be...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/happy_birthday_jack8

This July was one for the books! I started traveling with JHipster Conf and kept traveling until That Conference in August. There was some vacation mixed in (Montana and Cape Cod), but I also wo...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/july_2019_road_trips_family

Last week was quite the whirlwind for me. On Monday, I released Ionic for JHipster 4.0 , updated my get started with JHipster 6 tutorial , and recorded a matching screencast. Within an hour of re...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/my_journey_to_jhipster_conf

I love it when school's out for summer. The feeling you on the last day of school as a kid is like no other. It's a terrific feeling. The feeling of freedom. Our kids graduated from 10th and 8th ...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/a_beautiful_adventure_to_jbcnconf

Holy cow! 2018-19 was one of the best ski seasons ever!! It all started in December with some gorgeous powder days and only got better from there. Trish and I took her birthday off (Dece...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/farewell_to_the_2018_19

I had the pleasure of traveling to Bangalore, India last week for the 2019 edition of the Great International Developer Summit . GIDS is a conference that spans five days and has around 5000 dev...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/gids_2019_adventures_in_india

In 2018, I spoke at several fantastic meetups, traveled a bit overseas, and enjoyed some fun family vacations. We had the time of our lives driving Hefe in the Denver St. Paddy's Day Parade! ...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/2018_a_year_in_review

For the first time in many years, we flew to Montana for the holidays. We typically drive, and it takes around 14 hours. It was quite nice to take off and land in just a couple of hours. ...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/life_update_thanksgiving_in_montana

The JHipster Mini-Book v5.0 is now available as a free download from InfoQ . Get it while it's 🔥! You can also buy a print copy from Lulu . You can read more about this release on the JHipster...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/the_jhipster_mini_book_v5

OMG. My daughter, Abbie, turned 16 today! We celebrated all weekend with her grandparents in town and lots of smiles. Abbie hosted a birthday party at our house on Saturday night with a bunch o...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/happy_birthday_abbie12

Several years ago, Trish and I did a 21-Day sugar detox . I was unenthusiastic at the time, but the results were fantastic. I lost weight, my blood pressure improved, and it inspired me to eat be...

https://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/the_14_day_sugar_detox