Alexa – Retirement of Display Templates
The Alexa Development Environment has had a message announcing the replacement of Display Templates with the APL (Advanced Presentation Language).
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Technical Tips
AWS Lightsail – Email Challenges
Summary: My opinion is that it would make more sense for Amazon to monitor email usage by established accounts, and ask
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Favicons for Fun
Disclaimer: This isn’t meant to criticize anyone – just to serve as a performance example. I have seen many developers
Read moreQA in Everyday Data
08/22/2020 – Update: The data problem is still occurring. I will run a simple SQL statement next, to fix the corrupt
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Stripe Email Domain Verification
07/21 Stripe recently added the ability to use custom domain names as the email sender for invoices and receipts, instead of
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Alexa Developer Console Changes
The Alexa Developer Console layout has recently been updated. It may take some getting used to. Old Version: Having a drop-down
Read moreExample MVS Console Interface
The program below is written in MVS Assembler. It tests a call to the FTP2 program, which is possible because
Read moreJob Monitoring
Below is an example error message from an automated job monitoring system I created for a client. The event monitoring
Read moreProblem with Alexa Builder using Previous Version
One small problem seems to occur when the Alexa Skill Builder is used to revert to an old version of
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Twitter Share Link Format
When Twitter changed the user layout, it also changed the url that allows a website to share a particular page
Read moreWordPress, WP-Super Cache, and https: for the Insecure
One problem I’ve encountered with google search results, is that google will assume a site is https: whenever possible. This
Read moreObsolete PHP Directives
Although these 2 PHP directives have been deprecated for some time, your site will become unavailable if they are still
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New Alexa Warnings in Builder
The warning message below is a new one, which the Alexa Skill Builder began issuing within the last few
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Thanks – updates on AlexaSkills Tools & Features Presentation
Thanks to @memodoring for the informative Twitch presentation on the newest AlexaSkills tools & features this week! @alexadevs #ask #alexa
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AWS Innovate Online Conference
The online presentations were high-level, but still interesting
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Alexa Observations, part 2
In the first post, the address slot type (AMAZON.PostalAddress) was shown in the Alexa Simulator as being populated with 5750
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Alexa Observations
These are some simple observations I made while testing Alexa Skills under development. For address slot types, the simulator requires
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Thanks – “Designing Multimodal Skills for Alexa presentation”
Thanks @JeffBlankenburg & @memodoring for the great "Designing Multimodal Skills for Alexa presentation" today! #alexa pic.twitter.com/b6wQhdvwgF — David Young (@Dave3Young)
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Basic Composer Commands
Log on to SSH for your linux host, and enter the following commands. – to show the version of composer-managed
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Thanks for Alexa Dev Day Dallas (Aug 1, 2017)
Thanks to @alexadevs,@intel, and @robmccauley for the informative Alexa Dev Day Dallas! #voicedesign #coding #github #AmazonEcho pic.twitter.com/0zBsASByEi — David Young
Read moreUpdate – preventing Windows 10 upgrade
This is an update to the earlier post on how to prevent Windows from constantly offering to upgrade to Windows
Read moreHow to customize your Website’s Error Pages (revised)
Minor update to the document, to change the following lines in the .htaccess file: Old: ErrorDocument 401 https://david-e-young.us/401page.htm ErrorDocument 403 https://david-e-young.us/403page.htm
Read moreWindows 7 Rollups and preventing Updates
The following Windows Update Rollups have recently been made available in the Windows Update utility for Windows 7 SP1 and
Read moreCode Signing after SHA-1 phaseout
Comodo and Ksoftware have been generously providing replacement certificates to current customers, as a result of the SHA-1 phaseout. The
Read morePreventing update to Windows 10 from Windows 7/8.1
Many Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users will want to keep their current operating system. To disable the Windows 10
Read moreDLL Registration – Win32 vs .NET
There are different methods for registering a Win32-based DLL, versus a .NET DLL. Win32 DLLs were typically created with legacy
Read moreGetVersion API and Windows 10
This document addresses two problems that can be resolved by updating the Application Manifest file for programs that are distributed
Read moreWindows SDK Downloads
Developers using older versions of Visual Studio, may need to download SDKs to author applications compatible with more recent versions
Read moreFirefox Downgrade and Reinstallation
About once a year, I go through the steps of completely uninstalling Firefox, deleting associated folders, and reinstalling the browser.
Read moreGetVersion API and Windows 8.1
This document addresses two problems that can be resolved by updating the Application Manifest file for programs that are distributed
Read moreWindows 10 Preview on Windows 7/VM Workstation
To test the technical preview of Windows 10, I followed the instructions at Petri Windows 10 how-to to safely install
Read moreIE9+ – Adjusting Toolbar Button Size
One of the items that annoyed me in Internet Explorer 9 / Windows 7, is that the toolbar (CommandBar) is
Read moreCHM Challenges with Windows 7
Microsoft has undergone several phases of security updates on Windows 7, that make it impossible to open a custom .chm
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