A conversational AI system is made up of two basic parts: a natural language understanding (NLU) model and a text-to-speech (TTS) model. The NLU model takes in user input, parses it into intents and entities, and sends that information to the TTS model to generate the appropriate response. The components Read more…
WP Click-To-Deploy (WCTD – WordPress Cloud) is an automated, secure, private WordPress hosting deployment service that allows you to deploy any WordPress site in under five minutes.This version of WordPress Mail Notification Relay Management Via Gmail API In GCP WP Click-To-Deploy (WCTD) does not require a database. It uses Google’s Read more…
It’s been years since I last wrote an article about using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to create Google Sheets add-ins. And while there were many great comments on that old article, it was clear that the time had finally come to update it. The problem with the old VBA Read more…
The IBM i still plays a big role in many businesses. As a result, data is often trapped in old systems like IMS and TPF. You can use Python and SQL to extract this information and load it into NoSQL databases like MongoDB or Redis. This will help you modernize Read more…
One of the biggest benefits to deploying technology on top of GCP is all the built-in features. The Cloud Build service provides an easy way to automate the build process. In this case, I’m using it to perform a DevOps task that would otherwise take a lot more effort. For Read more…
We’re living in the future. Isn’t it great? A lot of the sci-fi fantasies of the past are now becoming a reality, and we can start to enjoy them today. And, perhaps more importantly, our kids will get to enjoy them as they grow up too! The problem is that Read more…
The first question we must ask ourselves when assessing the UI/UX design of any application is, “How does this app interface with the user?” While it may seem like an obvious answer, the way in which a product interfaces directly affects the overall user experience. When thinking about the way Read more…
The goal of this article is to give you an overview of the best practices that you can use when redesigning or developing a new user interface for a legacy application. You will learn about the Agile UI/UX design methodology, which we developed at our company, and which has been Read more…
GCP Cloud Endure is a new free tool from Google that provides continuous scanning and replication to GCloud Compute Engine virtual machines. The tool uses the same technology as the Google Compute Engine (GCE) auto-scaling feature, but it can be used with instances outside of GCE. It can also be Read more…
I’d like to show you some example code that we use at Firebase and how to architect your applications using collections, so that they scale. Let’s say we want to store some user data in our collection. We can do this by simply creating a reference variable in the root Read more…