In my previous blog, I talked about how to use ImageMagick to square a file. Now, in this blog I’m taking it one step further. I have a directory of photos from all over the internet, and I want to post them to a social media site. If the pictures are taller than 510 pixels, […]
It took me a while to find a good utility to square images and make them a certain size. The results come from this confusing documentation page for Image Magic. convert -define jpeg:size=510×510 Test1.jpg -thumbnail "510×510>" -background white -gravity center -extent "510×510" testResult.jpg Of course you change the sizes and the background color. The page […]
I made this quick summary of some of the size and limitations and specs for developing Amazon Alexa Skill. Please contact me at Amazon Skill Developer (Dallas, Texas) if you need one developed. Max 8000 characters of speech when Alexa is speaking based on text. MP3 – must be bit rate 48kbps, sample rate […]
AWS re:invent Live Stream – Werner Keynote 11/30/2017 Werner Vogels is VP and CTO of Amazon (AWS). Egalitarian Platform – everyone has access to the same storage, analytics, algorithms, etc… What sets a company aside is the quality of the data they have. G.E. – You go to bed as a manufacturing company, and you […]
re:invent 2017 – AWS Conference – Live Stream Notes – 11/29/2017 “The Cloud is the New Normal” – Andy Jassy – CEO Amazon Web Services 10:17 Expedia CEO – Expedia – 22,000 employees and and ?? billion in sales Most global diversified travel platform in the world. 55 million phone calls/year Started as a small […]
Both Alexa and the Google Home device support Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML). For Alexa – see this SSML documentation, and for Google Home/DialogFlow, see this SSML documentation. SSML was created by the W3C’s Voice Browser working group. Even though the Alexa doc says you need to wrap the SSML in the <speech> tag, I […]
Suppose someone knows a folder name, and tries to list a folder on your site to find out what’s inside of it. Without any protection, it might display like this in the browser: Now, let’s assume that you don’t want people snooping around in this folder, and trying to run the various PHP programs or […]
Today, with the popularity of GitHub, many people are using MarkDown files to create their documentation. While there are plug-ins for Chrome I have yet to try, I found this cool site today: https://stackedit.io/editor. Left side is where you paste the .md contents, right side is the formatted results: Doesn’t that look a lot […]
I sometime post my own code here so I can find an example I like in the future, rather than having to search the web. So there’s nothing extraordinary with the program below, just a good example of how to do SQL Server update commands using pypyodbc from Python. It’s using a relation database (RDS) […]
There can be many reasons for the python error “module not found”. In my case, I had a laptop with 2.7 and 3.6 both installed.? ?My windows path contained the 2.7 release, but I was running the 3.6 release.? So when I ran from the command line by just typing in “python myprogram.py” it worked.? […]