Angelhack Manila 2019

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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Sharing Alexa Hello World at Far Eastern University Makati

Last Thursday March 15, I was able to have an opportunity to share my knowledge about Alexa at Far Eastern University (FEU) Makati. I discussed trends about Voice apps, what is Alexa Skills, utterance, intent and available devices, writing Hello World using AWS Lambda and HTTP endpoint via EC2, Route53 and certbot (SSL) and many more. It was a great day!

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