Author Archives: matthiasshapiro

Tutorial: Alexa Skills in C# – The Code

In the last piece, I walked through setting up an AWS account and putting together the policies needed to deploy your code

The Amazon Echo is amazing and you should have one. Or at least an Amazon Dot, which offers the voice interface of the Echo

This is a guide for anyone who is wondering how best to spend their dust in the Hearthstone with the classic cards. Buying

This is a guide for anyone who is wondering how best to spend their dust in the Hearthstone expansion “Mean Streets of

Building HoloLens apps is more fun when you have models. I mean… spheres and cubes have their place, but it’s decidedly

Whenever you start a HoloLens project from scratch in Unity, you’ll need to do a couple things to get everything in place

I've spent the last month or so playing with the Microsoft Bot Framework & I'm excited and fascinated with the potential

If you've wandered through the design world for any length of time, you've run into the grid system. It's a system of design

2015 has been a hell of a year. My New Year's Resolution for 2015 was, whatever I worked on, I had to keep pushing

I'll never not find this funny... I usually use this cartoon with a caption about how we as product developers look at our