I’m currently working on a project where we have an Alexa smart home skill. Recently, we added a custom voice interaction model to this skill to handle some intents that aren’t supported in the Smart Home API. At the moment, we’re only supporting English on the custom side of things…

Yesterday morning, instead of heading to the Sage offices for work, I headed to the Jury’s Inn hotel in the centre of Newcastle, for the Alexa Skills 201 workshop. As usual, my fellow developers, Carl Cheel and Lee Gilmore were keeping me company. The workshop was hosted by Amazon Alexa’s…

On 8 November 2017, myself and some other Sage colleagues made a trip to London, to attend the #MDBE17 (MongoDB Europe ’17) conference. It was my first time in attendance, and I was really looking forward to it. Also, since we use MongoDB on a number of projects at Sage…

On 3 July 2017, I took part in Dynamo North East’s first hackathon event, as part of their #D17 conference at Durham University. “Dynamo is a volunteer led group set up with the core mission to ‘Grow the North East IT Economy’ through collaboration, innovation, skills. …