I build my businesses in the cloud, here’s why I’m a self-taught web developer, and I’ve spent years building my existing skills and learning new skills. One interesting fact about my journey is that I was terrified of building in the cloud. By the time I landed my first job…

Stop manually collecting payment information, laboring over invoices, and waiting to get paid. There’s nothing worse than working your ass off for a sale, then making a “ham handed segue” into asking the customer for a credit card. Automated payment processing is now a commodity that can be seamlessly integrated…

Amazon CloudFront is a powerful ingredient for any voice first application, including Alexa Skills. The ability to build and deploy an entire web application, with a back-end API, without provisioning a single server, is amazing. The ability to connect a VUI (Voice User Interface) to the infrastructure is equally amazing…

It’s all about logic, organization, and extreme attention to detail. Many people are interested in the software development industry nowadays, and I often wonder about the path folks will take to reach their ultimate destination. For existing developers, I’m usually interested in the non-traditional path they took to become developers…

We will be using an Infrastructure as Code approach for this tutorial. We will be dealing with 2 regions in our AWS account. I am closest to us-west-2, so the bulk of my infrastructure will be deployed in that region. You could deploy everything in us-east-1, but you will need…

We used state-of-the-art technology to create a new gaming experience Building for voice first is hard. Perhaps that is what makes it so compelling. Building engaging voice first games is exceptionally difficult, mainly because you cannot rely on flashy visuals. Our Approach About 2 years ago we had a crazy idea to…

The effective combination of technology and personal service will delight clients and increase profits Many professionals in conservative industries such as law and accounting are inflexible and somewhat technology averse. Sure, there are some early adopters who embrace technology and use it as a unique value proposition — positioning their…

I happen to be in the midst of a very large Alexa Skill project. In fact, after 1 month, I am still toiling away. Writing code all day, typing at the speed of light, I am starting to enjoy the click-clack of the keys. In fact, the sound of the…