BreakTheFake Manila Hackathon 2019 Experience
Great weekend for Team Gigamike. We finished 3rd place at #breakthefake Manila Hackathon 2019. I’ll be sharing my slides and video demo but first, I like to congratulate the event organizer of #breakthefake Manila headed by Gabriel Billones Jr., speakers, mentors, panels, volunteers, and sponsors. #breakthefake is a pre-hack hackathon that tries to solve fake news. It was held at American Corner Manila – De La Salle University Libraries, De La Salle University Library last Aug 17, 2019, Saturday.
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Accenture TechXplore Hackathon 2019 Experience
Late post. Last weekend, July 20 to 21, 2019 was the Accenture TechXplore Hackathon 2019, a hackathon event by Accenture that was held at Accenture Liquid Studio Manila, BGC. Fortunately, our team qualified, but unfortunately we lost. Anyways, I’m just here to share our hackathon presentation and experience of the said event. And yes, we used Alexa!
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Alexa Skills Using Laravel
Just sharing my slides from my talk at AWSUGPH and LaravelPH July 2019 Meetup that was held last Thursday July 25, 2019 at Salarium Makati. Before I start shout out to my co-speakers Raph Marco, Mark Rosario, and Joe Palala. Kudos to our emcees Raphael Francis Quisumbing AWS Hero, Katt De Leos and Team Salarium.
To start with you can download my slides below
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AngelHack Manila 2019 Hackathon Experience
Just sharing my experience at AngelHack Manila hackathon 2019 last weekend at Aspace Greenbelt Makati. Fortunately, we won 1st runner up and the AWS challenge award. Our team name is Team Alexa and compose of me, Amah and Tristan Rosales.
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AWS UG PH April 2019 Meetup
Thank you to all who participated in AWS UG PH April 2019 Meetup. Shoutout to all the speakers Raphael Francis Quisumbing, Roney Joseph, Lek Castulo, and Leonardo Salvadora. Thankyou AWS for the venue and food thru Miss Femee. And to my co organizer John Louis Garcia.
Below are some photos and highlights of the event.
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AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder – Specialty Exam
AWS just recently announce the availability of AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder – Specialty Exam. To learn more about the exam pls. check https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-alexa-skill-builder-specialty/
My Decentralized Innovations Startups’ Hackathon – DISH 2019 Experience
Warning! Off topic. This is not about Alexa but I did use some AWS services in my DApp entry for this hackathon. First of all I would like to thank and congratulate Decentralized Innovations Startups’ Hackathon – DISH 2019 organizers, sponsors and volunteers for a successful event.
I found out DISH2019 through Roy Selbach whom I met at WordCamp Manila 2018 event. Later by December 2018 I met Amadeo Brands thru Roy at HackManila 2018 hackathon. Roy’s team and I won in that event! check out the event highlights at https://hackmanila.com/. Amadeo asked me to signup on DISH2019 hackathon.
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My AWS Hackdays Philippines 2019 Experience
Just want to share my AWS Hackdays Philippines 2019 experience last Wednesday, March 20, 2019. Unfortunately, we didn’t win, but it was fun, we gained new friends and had a realy great experience.
Here are the lists of top 5 teams presented at the AWS main office at BGC, Makati.
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AWS User Group PH 1st Monthly Meet-up 2019
Im very thankful for the opportunity to share my knowledge last night at AWS User Group PH 1st monthly meet-up that was held at Voyager Innovations, Inc. Mandaluyong.
Two hours with 4 speakers is just a short time so i wasn’t able to discuss all of my slides but anyways I’m sharing it and you can download it here.
AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder – Specialty Beta Exam
AWS recently announced AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder – Specialty Beta Exam.