A blog about software development by Jamie Geddes — notes on .NET, Delphi, APIs, the cloud and whatever else is keeping me curious.https://jamiegeddes.io/en-gbhttps://jamiegeddes.io/blog/alexa-dev-day-edinburgh/https://jamiegeddes.io/blog/alexa-dev-day-edinburgh/Notes and highlights from an Alexa Dev Day in Edinburgh — video-enabled devices, push notifications, the ASK CLI and more.Mon, 29 Jan 2018 22:02:43 GMTAlexaAmazonAWSEchohttps://jamiegeddes.io/blog/uploading-a-statically-hosted-blog-to-aws-s3/https://jamiegeddes.io/blog/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.Tue, 31 Oct 2017 22:12:35 GMTS3AWSC#https://jamiegeddes.io/blog/alexa-skills-day/https://jamiegeddes.io/blog/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.Thu, 20 Jul 2017 22:32:20 GMTAlexaAmazonAWSEchohttps://jamiegeddes.io/blog/avoiding-null-dereference-exceptions-with-the-maybe-type/https://jamiegeddes.io/blog/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.Tue, 18 Jul 2017 22:43:30 GMTDelphi.FunctionalExtensionsDelphihttps://jamiegeddes.io/blog/mountebank-delphi-client-library-initial-release/https://jamiegeddes.io/blog/mountebank-delphi-client-library-initial-release/Announcing the first release of mountebank-delphi, a Delphi client library for the mountebank service mocking tool.Tue, 18 Apr 2017 22:46:25 GMTMountebankDelphiDevelopmenthttps://jamiegeddes.io/blog/delphi-starter-edition/https://jamiegeddes.io/blog/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.Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:23:32 GMTDelphiDevelopmentOmniPascalIDEshttps://jamiegeddes.io/blog/introducing-mountebank-part-2/https://jamiegeddes.io/blog/introducing-mountebank-part-2/Part 2 of the mountebank series — adding conditional behaviour to imposters with multiple responses and stub predicates.Mon, 10 Apr 2017 22:53:01 GMTMountebankAPIJSONhttps://jamiegeddes.io/blog/introducing-mountebank-part-1/https://jamiegeddes.io/blog/introducing-mountebank-part-1/Part 1 of a series on mountebank — spinning up a simple HTTP mock for a real API using imposters and stubs.Mon, 06 Feb 2017 22:39:05 GMTMountebankAPIJSON