I finished my PiCam project, and after it was live for a few days, I was bothered by what a pain it is to view images and video.  This little system already has a lot going on, so I wanted to create a simple, nearly static website to view images and video.  I decided to go with mustache templates because they make...

At $work we have started a project using Ionic [http://ionicframework.com/] and Ionic Native [https://ionicframework.com/docs/native/]. I didn't have any experience with it so I decided to make something fun and simple. I often play little song snippets during meetings so I decided to make a soundboard. There's a project on Github [https://github.com/rkalis/ionic-soundboard] that...

I attended UberConf [https://uberconf.com] in Denver, CO from 7/19 - 7/22. This was my first UberConf, but it will most likely not be my last. The conference itself was well organized, at a beautiful location, and had a ton of excellent content presented by professionals. I attended the following sessions and added notes where I took them. The...

I have been experimenting with Spring Boot [http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot/] the last couple days and I made a very small extension to my first test [https://doyleyoung.net/spring-boot/] of the framework. After reading a getting started guide [https://spring.io/guides/gs/spring-boot/] I discovered something else amazing about this project. I added the following class to my test...

A few days ago a friend sent me a link to Spring Boot [http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot/]. I have used Spring for a large number of projects over the years and the description of Spring Boot seemed to indicate it could remove a number of my biggest peeves. When I first used Spring I did not like the odd combination of...