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Implementing a Twitter Bot using Azure Cognitive Services and Azure Functions
June 14, 2020 by Anuraj
Azure CognitiveServices AzureDevStories
We can improve our personal branding is creating content and by posting to social media consistently. In this article, I am creating an Azure Serverless function, which helps to fetch news articles using Azure Cognitive Services — Bing News API and post content to Twitter. I am also using Azure Text Analytics service, which will extract key phrases from the news title — which helps to tag the tweets.
Building COVID 19 FAQ ChatBot using Azure Cognitive Services and Azure Bot Framework
June 06, 2020 by Anuraj
Azure CognitiveServices BotFramework Covid19 AzureDevStories
The whole world is fighting against the Novel Corona Virus or COVID 19. One of the major challenges the world faces is fake news. The WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had said in February itself, “We are not just fighting an epidemic; we are fighting an infodemic.”. Many organizations like WHO, CDC etc publish information and answers to frequently asked questions that can be accessed through their websites. But most of the times it is hard to find answers to specific questions.
Building a Zoom Bot with ASP.NET Core
May 17, 2020 by Anuraj
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This post is about how to create a Zoom bot with ASP.NET Core. Zoom is a collaboration solution by Zoom Communications Inc. In the Zoom developer documentation, they are implemented a Chat bot using Nodejs. In this post I am explaining how to implement a simple chatbot using ASP.NET Core.
Building mailinator clone using SendGrid and ASP.NET Core
May 10, 2020 by Anuraj
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This post is about how to create a mailinator clone using SendGrid Inbound parse webhooks and ASP.NET Core. Mailinator is a service which offers dynamic email inbox for testing purposes. In this post I am creating a similar service using SendGrid Inbound parse webhooks - which helps to listen for incoming emails. To start you need a SendGrid account. Once you create a SendGrid account, you need to authenticate a domain. For this post I have created an SendGrid account from Azure portal. You can create Authenticated domains from this Page. Next open your Inbound parse settings, you can get it from Settings > Inbound Parse or Inbound Parse Settings. Next you need to add your receiving domain and Webhook URL.
Adding Chrome push notifications to web applications
May 07, 2020 by Anuraj
Desktop Notification Push Notification
This post is about how to create and consume Chrome push notifications in Web Applications. Push notifications helps application developers to build more engaging apps for the users.
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