My Posts

• Building Baby Logs with Alexa

  September 16, 2016

  Another Alexa skill? Yep! I told you I’m in love. It is so fun to be able to build something that is useful and pract...
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• DynamoDB and other Lessons Learned with Alexa

  September 5, 2016

  I finally completed my Pregnancy Countdown Alexa Skill! I briefly mentioned in my last post that I was conceptualizin...
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• Falling in Love with Alexa

  August 16, 2016

  I am falling in love with Alexa. It’s true. She keeps me up at night, thinking of things I can build and functionalit...
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• Women Belong at Def Con Too

  August 10, 2016

  Last week I had the opportunity to go to BSidesLV and afterwards to Def Con in Las Vegas for the very first time. It ...
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• My Second Alexa Skill

  August 9, 2016

  After building my first Alexa skill, I was feeling pretty confident, and I was excited to build another one. This tim...
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• Building a Simple Alexa Trivia Skill

  July 27, 2016

  Given my background in linguistics, I was very excited to interact with Amazon’s voice service personified in Alexa. ...
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• Troubleshooting Basics

  June 22, 2016

  This post is for the very beginning coder just starting to learn how to troubleshoot. To many of you, a lot of these ...
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• Roadblocks to Entering the World of Development

  June 22, 2016

  The number of roadblocks a person faces when they want to get into the world of software development are innumerable....
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• My Path into Software Development

  June 22, 2016

  My path into the world of software development has been a circuitous one. That’s probably true for a lot of developer...
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• My Experience at Bloc

  June 22, 2016

  The year-long Software Engineering track at Bloc is somewhat of a crossover between a traditional coding bootcamp and...
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