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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 1:39 GMT

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 9:11 GMT

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 9/26/2017 9:52 GMT

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 12:05 GMT

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 10:07 GMT

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 3:33 GMT

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 4:25 GMT

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 2:05 GMT

JavaLite ActiveJDBC For ORM In Spark Java

I've spent a lot of time on the blog lately talking about views in Spark Java applications.  Rightfully so, as Views are the Turkey in any MVC sandwich...

Posted by Todd Sharp on 4/7/2017 9:19 GMT

Spark Java Views With Apache FreeMarker

In the last few posts I took a look at using Thymeleaf for view rendering and templating with Spark Java.  Thymeleaf has it's advantages and disadvantages...

Posted by Todd Sharp on 4/7/2017 7:05 GMT