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Long back we used AWS to set up a PHP and MYSQL application. This weekend will work with Amazon Polly to deploy our own TTS application. Amazon Polly is a Text-to-Speech service that uses advanced deep learning technologies to synthesize speech that sounds like a human voice.

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Recently, I started Reading Kotlin In Action by Dmitry Jemerov and learned about Data classes in Kotlin. It’s one of the best books out there to get started with Kotlin. You can buy the paperback edition of the book from Amazon.

I wrote a simple activity in Koltin which takes a user name as input and simply displays it in the TextView. Here’s how the activity looks like. And the code for the activity is,

Take a look at the below string <string name="notifications_talk_page_message" formatted="false">%s left a message on your %s page</string> The string contains a format parameter, %s which can be replaced by a string value.

It’s was a Sunday and I was bored. Then I came across a custom URL shortener service, YOURLS that I had previously used in my college days. It was very simple to set it up with my GoDaddy shared web hosting.

Am at the Prague pre-hackathon and the guys from Wikipedia UK and Wikipedia Austria gave a session on SPARQL queries. It seems to be a very cool way to get results from Wikidata and visualize it.

The Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern helps developers separate an application’s business and presentation logic from its user interface. Maintaining a clear separation between application logic and user interface helps address development and design issues, making an application easier to test, maintain, and develop.

This tutorial shows you how to add a backend service to a Windows Phone app using Azure Mobile Services. You will create a new mobile service and a simple to-do app that stores its data in the cloud using the new mobile service.

It was the last day of my third year, and I was packing my bags to go back home. Lots of companies had visited our campus for summer internship recruitment, and I didn’t get selected in any of them.