Tag: alexa
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Codemotion Milan 2019
As an Italian Java developer, Codemotion has always been one of the main tech conferences. And Milan is still the city that I occasionally call home, even after many years away. So I am very very excited to be back in October and be a speaker at Codemotion Milan 2019. I am looking forward to…
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Talk at Make Random Great Again
“Alexa, what is the capital of Israel?” is the title of my talk at the Make Random Great Again meetup at Betahaus. Looking forward to March 29th and a interesting event in Berlin!
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Alexa, what is the capital of Israel?
The status of Jerusalem has been in the news a lot in the last few weeks, since Donald Trump confirmed the US now recognize the city as capital of Israel. And the recent UN voting on rejecting the recognition. If maps and location-based services present unexpected challenges in a disputed territory to the developer who…
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Alexa & Grandma
The sound is not as good as a Bose speaker. I sadly had to remove a few broken valves to make space for a working audio device. But setting up Alexa and testing my Big World skill on Grandma’s radio is priceless. Next step, setting it up inside the radio.
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Location-based services and countries on AWS
A few weeks ago I covered my experience and challenges working with geolocation technologies for Funambol and RaceBase World, as the (accidental) political software developer. How does it work using AWS services? As the focus of this blog is AWS technologies, what about Amazon and their location-based services? Any way to keep those geolocation issues…