Alexa Dev Day Edinburgh
Notes and highlights from an Alexa Dev Day in Edinburgh — video-enabled devices, push notifications, the ASK CLI and more.
A Developing Story
Software development, written down.
I'm Jamie Geddes, a software engineer. This is where I keep notes on the things I build and the tools I build them with — .NET, Delphi, APIs, voice, and the cloud.
Writing
Uploading a statically hosted blog to AWS S3
Building a small C# utility to bulk-upload a static blog to AWS S3 with the correct content-type metadata.
Alexa Skills Day
A write-up of an Amazon Alexa Skills Day in Glasgow — the Alexa ecosystem, building and publishing skills, and designing for real users.
Avoiding null dereference exceptions with the Maybe type
How to use the Maybe type in Delphi to make method signatures honest and eliminate null dereference exceptions.
Mountebank-Delphi Client Library Initial Release
Announcing the first release of mountebank-delphi, a Delphi client library for the mountebank service mocking tool.
Delphi Starter Edition
A look at Embarcadero's free Delphi Starter Edition, and why its cut-down feature set falls short of attracting new developers.
Introducing Mountebank (part 2) - responses and predicates
Part 2 of the mountebank series — adding conditional behaviour to imposters with multiple responses and stub predicates.
Introducing Mountebank - a better way to mock your APIs (part 1)
Part 1 of a series on mountebank — spinning up a simple HTTP mock for a real API using imposters and stubs.