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:

'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 );
	}
};

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:

<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/' + url, function(data) {
			that.html(numberFormat(data.shares));
		});	
	});
});
</script>

Then, add elements to your page like so:

<div class="trigger_facebook_count" data-url="http://bossip.com"></div>

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