Category: Javascript

Alexa + AWS Lambda Hello World in Javascript

Here is the Javascript version of my earlier tutorial Hello World in AWS Lambda + Amazon Alexa:

[code language=”javascript”]
‘use strict’;

function buildResponsePayload( title, output, repromptText, shouldEndSession ) {
return {
outputSpeech: {
type: ‘PlainText’,
text: output
},
card: {
type: ‘Simple’,
title: ‘alexaHelloWorld – ‘ + title,
content: ‘alexaHelloWorld – ‘ + output
},
reprompt: {
outputSpeech: {
type: ‘PlainText’,
text: repromptText,
},
},
shouldEndSession,
};
}

function buildResponse( sessionAtts, speechResponse ) {
return {
version: ‘1.0’,
sessionAtts,
response: speechResponse,
};
}

function sayHelloWorld( callback ) {
const sessionAtts = {};
const cardTitle = ‘alexaHelloWorld’;
const textOutput = ‘Hello Javascript World’;
const shouldEndSession = false;

callback( sessionAtts, buildResponsePayload( cardTitle, textOutput, textOutput, shouldEndSession ) );
}

exports.handler = ( event, context, callback ) => {
try {
sayHelloWorld( ( sessionAtts, speechResponse ) => {
callback( null, buildResponse( sessionAtts, speechResponse ) );
} );
} catch( e ) {
callback( e );
}
};
[/code]

Enjoy!

I Open Sourced My Twenty Sixteen Child Theme

Today, I open sourced my Twenty Sixteen child theme. It includes an empty resume page template and a clean travel shortcode that uses Google Maps. You’ll need to check out the source code for usage, but it’s very simple 🙂

This child theme is meant to be only very small improvements to the WordPress Twenty Sixteen default theme, but they were improvements that I felt were very valuable.

View the code: https://github.com/rcoll/twentysixteen-rcollier

Pull requests are welcome.

Easy Automatic Facebook Share Counts (Fully Javascript)

Drop this little gem in your site’s header:

[javascript]
<script>
function numberFormat(x) {
return x.toString().replace(/B(?=(d{3})+(?!d))/g, ‘,’);
}

jQuery(document).ready(function($){
$(‘.trigger_facebook_count’).each(function(){
var url = $(this).attr(‘data-url’);
var that = $(this);

$.get(‘http://graph.facebook.com/&#8217; + url, function(data) {
that.html(numberFormat(data.shares));
});
});
});
</script>
[/javascript]

Then, add elements to your page like so:

[html]<div class="trigger_facebook_count" data-url="http://bossip.com"></div>%5B/html%5D

Remember to change the data-url to whatever URL you are referencing, and viola! You’re done.