The only thing stopping me from a bad idea is another competing bad idea. –Adam’s first rule of infinite bad ideas. That sentence alone may as well summarize everything from my professional career as a freelancer to my time at university, yet somehow I still come across work and maintain my knowledge as a web […]
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Let’s Talk About WWDC ’21.
Yesterday’s keynote marked the beginning of WWDC21 (Worldwide Developer’s Conference), a week-long extravaganza of news and resources regarding software updates and features headed to Apple devices later this year. While past WWDCs are met with a great deal of cautious optimism and excitement on the cusp of possible hardware announcements and anticipated features, the excitement […]
Let’s Talk about Apple’s Environmental Commitment.
[Author’s note: The following article was written on December 22nd, 2020. Several changes have been made to better reflect new information pertinent to this topic. ~AK] As sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, Apple has heralded the arrival of a new generation of iPhones and set tongues wagging […]
A Clean(er) Slate.
On the internet, nobody knows you’re a toaster. Nobody. Except I’m not a toaster, let alone a ballistic one anymore; I haven’t used that handle online with the exception of my Twitch channel and apart from recycling this gag from my last blog, I’m still only a freelance mobile/web developer in my mid-late twenties with […]
Watson Conversation Services on Salesforce: Deploying our Chatbot.
Originally published on September 22nd, 2017. Now that we’ve gotten Live Agent up and running in our Salesforce organization, it’s time to start working on our chatbot! We’re going to be working off of a sample chatbot that is written using the Node.JS SDK of Watson Conversation services. IBM Watson: Setup, Chat Window Appearance, and […]
Watson Conversation Services on Salesforce: Setting up Salesforce Live Agent.
Originally published August 26th, 2017. Chatbots have become a very exciting area of development with companies like Facebook leveraging the Messenger platform as a place where developers can create bots that answer questions, book appointments, and even interact with payment apps such as Venmo to satisfy the needs of their customers. In this proof of concept, […]
Twilio Video in Force.com
Originally published on June 22nd, 2016. Twilio’s capabilities as a voice calling and messaging platform-as-a service are a perfect fit for Salesforce’s raw power as a CRM and cloud computing solution for businesses. While Twilio Voice and Messaging officially support the Force.com platform through custom libraries, the beta SDK for Twilio Video doesn’t officially support […]