No doubt you’re already having lovely long conversations with your bot via Skype (or Facebook Messenger, or even SMS!) built using the botframework, and by using the Bot Emulator you can run your bot locally and debug it. However, once it’s deployed and is being called via the Bot Connector framework, instead of directly, things […]
Hopefully you’ve already had a chance to play around with the amazing WebPageTest during your website performance testing adventure so far. In case not, I have a few articles you might like to browse, to help you get up to speed using this fantastic, free, open source, website performance testing tool. It has a website […]
WebPageTest is incredible. It allows us to visit a web page, enter a few values and then produce performance results from any destination around the world. Best of all, you can do this in many different possible browser configurations; even on many different real devices. If you’re doing this a lot, then using that simple […]
In the previous article we dissected an Alexa Skill down to the JSON request and Response, and pointed it to an HTTPS endpoint (your laptop) to get a basic end to end Skill working. In this article I’ll show you how to link that skill into your botframework chatbot. Creating a botframework reply Let’s dip […]
The rise of the conversational interface shows no signs of slowing down; chatbots are the new apps, Siri is getting old already, and although it’s still awkward to say “Ok Google” at your watch or “hey cortana” to your phone, somehow we’re happy to ask “Alexa” for the news, weather, or to play something by […]