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The Personal Blog of Todd Sharp

Creating A Slack Clone With Twilio, Angular 5 And Electron

I've heard plenty about Twilio over the past few years and had always wanted to learn more about their APIs.  They have a ton of different products...

Posted by Todd Sharp on 4/6/2018 2:26 UTC

Displaying A Table As Columns And Rows With Bootstrap

This one might fall into the "duh" category, but I recently found myself with a unique situation.  I was consuming some HTML from a third party and...

Posted by Todd Sharp on 3/5/2018 6:08 UTC

Conference Review - DevNexus 2018

In 2017 I attended the DevNexus conference in Atlanta and wrote my thoughts of it at the time.  I was mildly critical of some of the content...

Posted by Todd Sharp on 2/24/2018 6:39 UTC

Better Performance With Event Delegation In Vue

The last few days I've been going through the Vue.js documentation to learn a little more about the framework.  I'm impressed in its simplistic, concise...

Posted by Todd Sharp on 9/28/2017 1:11 UTC

Conference Review - Connect.Tech 2017

I recently had the opportunity to attend Connect.Tech 2017 and wanted to write up a quick review of the event.  I'll start off by saying this...

Posted by Todd Sharp on 9/27/2017 1:52 UTC

Which JavaScript Framework Should I Use?

I was having a conversation this morning with a coworker this morning about front end frameworks when he asked me the age old "trap" question for developers...

Posted by Todd Sharp on 9/5/2017 4:05 UTC

IntelliJ IDEA - Multiple DB Consoles (And Recovering Ones You Didn't Intend To Close)

I use the Database view/plugin in InelliJ IDEA quite often.  It's actually become my "go to" editor for SQL scripts because of it's responsiveness...

Posted by Todd Sharp on 5/25/2017 2:07 UTC

Spark Java "Flash" Scope

One of the handiest features of Grails is the "flash" scope.  The flash scope is "A temporary storage map that stores objects within the session for...

Posted by Todd Sharp on 4/18/2017 7:33 UTC

Realtime GPIO On Raspberry Pi With Spark Java And WebSockets

One of the cooler things about the Spark Java framework is built in websocket support thanks to the embedded Jetty server.  I've long been fascinated...

Posted by Todd Sharp on 4/10/2017 8:25 UTC

MongoDB via Morphia in Spark Java

The latest journey in my quest to see just how many new technologies and frameworks I can learn in one week involves Morphia.  Morphia is a "Java ...

Posted by Todd Sharp on 4/7/2017 6:05 UTC