Fork the Alexa Audio Tutorial in C# I originally started working with Alexa Skills because I wanted to write an skill to listen to podcasts. That’s how this whole mess… Read More »Alexa Audio Skill in C# (.Net Core)
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Note: This is part of a series on writing Alexa Skills in C#, but the Skill setup information is universal & language agnostic (as long as you’re using Amazon Lambda).… Read More »Tutorial: Alexa Skills in C# – Deployment
In the last piece, I walked through setting up an AWS account and putting together the policies needed to deploy your code to Amazon’s Lambda service. Now we’re going to… Read More »Tutorial: Alexa Skills in C# – The 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 without the built-in speaker. I have… Read More »Tutorial: Alexa Skills in C# – Setup
Building HoloLens apps is more fun when you have models. I mean… spheres and cubes have their place, but it’s decidedly more fun to be able see models that look… Read More »HoloLens Import of SketchUp Models
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I’ve spent the last month or so playing with the Microsoft Bot Framework & I’m excited and fascinated with the potential (and limitations) inherent in bot creation, as you can… Read More »The Business Case for Bots (Using Microsoft Bot Framework)
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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 through on it until I had… Read More »2015 Recap: What I Did (I Think)