Our developers love to build! And we love hiring skilled individuals who are always looking to excel and improve. These keen enthusiasts don’t just stop when they finish work; they take that passion outside of work too. Here’s our front-end developer Blake, on how his curiosity translates to his extracurricular activities. 

Here are the key takeouts from the recent Alfresco Day with my thoughts on the overall event at the end of the piece.  

Like any good developer, I feel the need to learn new technologies and am constantly on the lookout for information that will benefit my work. It's one of the reasons why I attended this year Alfresco DevCon 2019. Here's what I got out of the day. 

Seven teams at Zaizi took on the Alexa Skills Challenge; to solve a problem that someone could use every day. Alexa is the voice assistant service that powers Echo, which enables customers to interact with devices in a more intuitive way using voice-activated technology.

We all know that you can do some awesome stuff with Alexa from ‘Alexa call me an uber’ to ‘find my phone’ to ‘Alexa start a 7min workout’! We thought we’d try our own hand at using the Amazon Alexa API calls to prototype some great new uses for Alexa for us Zaizi enthusiasts.