Parshuram's Blog

I was trying AWS Rekognition & before using it in the app, i wanted to test with POSTMAN. But unfortunately there are not many resources available to be useful. Thus showing the simple way to setup POSTMAN. Obviously before jumping to POSTMAN, we need to have an AWS account setup and a user been created. (The user should have Rekognition related permissions) Also make sure to note the Access Key & Secret Key.  Lets start the POSTMAN & create a new POST request. The url to hit is  https://rekognition.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com  . It could change depending on your selected AWS region, mine is ap-south-1. First thing to set is the Authorization & select "AWS Signature" from the Type. Enter AccessKey, SecretKey which we noted while creating the new user. AWS Region should be from url & Service Name is "rekognition". We need to add 2 extra headers, "Content-Type" as "application/x-amz-jon-1.1" & "X-Amz-...

I wanted to help my daughter with the maths multiplication tables, but it gets painful when you repeat it again & again :( I was thinking of creating something with Bot Framework or Cortana skills, but those does not seems to be fit for purpose due to my previous experiences. Then comes Amazon Echo, and Alexa seems more promising. Decided to create an Alexa skill so that daughter can invoke it and ask for the maths table by herself. First thing we need is Amazon Alexa skill developer account. Head to below url & register for your account. https://developer.amazon.com/ Once registered, we can create a new Alexa skill. Creating skill is a step by step process. 1. Skill Information In skill info, we need to select Languages to support. Also the Name & Invocation Name for the skill. 2. Interaction Model Next is the Interaction model. Here we have to configure our intent & sample utterances. These are the sentences which we are suppose to s...