Microservices From Dev To Deploy, Part 2: Node/Express and Fn Serverless
In our last post, we were introduced to a fictional company called TechCorp run by an entrepreneur named Lydia whose goal it is to bring back the world...
Microservices From Dev To Deploy, Part 1: Getting Started With Helidon
Microservices are undoubtedly popular. There have been plenty of great posts on this blog that explain the advantages of using a microservice approach...
I've Joined Oracle
I’m happy to announce that as of today I am joining Oracle as a Developer Evangelist for their Cloud offering. This position is a dream come true for ...
Simulating Texas Hold'em With Groovy
Last week I had a bit of free time and decided to see how difficult it would be to write a Texas Hold'em poker simulation in Groovy. My goal wasn't...
Intro To Oracle Application Container Cloud Services
I've long been an AWS user, but recently one of my projects at work has expressed some interest in getting our platform running on multiple cloud service...
Adding Desktop Notifications To My Electron Twilio Slack Clone
In my last post we looked at how to create a very minimal Slack clone with Twilio, ElectronJS and Angular 5. Although I used Electron to give...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...