Technologies we use here at Rodiger

We always play with new stuff, open source or not, we don’t discriminate. We love to try it, test it and see how it actually works. So, Rodiger and it’s technologies go hand to hand. Technologies we use are also all around the spectrum. From messaging platforms and chatbots, through automation tools all the way to IoT.

Introduction to Docker

Rodiger DevOps2021-04-20T12:13:58+00:00April 20th, 2021|Tags: Automation, Beginner|

Docker is an open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications. Docker enables you to separate your applications from your infrastructure so you can deliver software quickly. With Docker, you can manage your infrastructure in the same ways you manage your applications. By taking advantage of Docker’s methodologies for shipping, testing, and deploying code quickly, you can significantly reduce the delay between writing code and running it in production.

Introduction to NodeJS

Rodiger DevOps2021-04-09T12:08:38+00:00December 16th, 2020|Tags: Beginner, Coding|

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. As an asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime, Node.js is designed to build scalable network applications. NodeJS relies on NPM packages and their dependencies. There is nearly a milion packages available to use with Node Package Manager.

Introduction to Bash

Rodiger DevOps2021-04-09T11:59:49+00:00December 3rd, 2020|Tags: Beginner, Shell|

Bash stands for "Bourne Again Shell" and was developed by Brian Fox in 1989. It's called "Bourne Again" because it replaces the popular Bourne Shell which is "born again" through Bash. Bash is a standard shell for Linux distributions.

Introduction to PowerShell

Rodiger DevOps2021-05-07T08:25:25+00:00November 27th, 2020|Tags: Beginner, Shell|

PowerShell is a cross-platform task automation and configuration management framework, consisting of a command-line shell and scripting language. Unlike most shells, which accept and return text, PowerShell is built on top of the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR), and accepts and returns .NET objects.

Dialog interruption and cancellation

Rodiger DevOps2021-06-01T13:36:27+00:00November 23rd, 2020|Tags: Advanced, Chatbot, Coding|

Bot dialog cancellation and interruption is used to expand you bot's capabilities in waterfall dialogs in Bot Framework SDK bots. They are meant to enable you to quit your dialog if you don't want to finish it or to create custom interrupts to, for example, call for help in the middle of a dialog if you don't know how to proceed.

Writing bot dialogs

Rodiger DevOps2021-04-09T13:59:01+00:00November 17th, 2020|Tags: Advanced, Chatbot, Coding|

Writing bot dialogs has a lot to do with planning because you have to have all the dialog flow planned before you start writing your dialog. You also need to manage your dialog state and have a way to stop a dialog if needed.

Bot Framework Dialogs

Rodiger DevOps2021-04-09T13:59:07+00:00November 17th, 2020|Tags: Chatbot, Intermediate|

Dialogs are a highlight of Bot Framework SDK and they are at it's centre. Through them, you can write comprehensive conversations that the bot will engage in with users. Rather than having a bot that just responds to user with a predefined message to a specific keyword. With bot framework dialogs, bots can give you real "dialog" experience.

What is automation

Rodiger DevOps2021-04-09T13:59:17+00:00November 2nd, 2020|Tags: Automation, Beginner|

Automation can be defined as a technology concerned with performing a process by means of programmed commands combined with automatic feedback control to ensure proper execution of the instructions. The resulting system is capable of operating without human intervention.

Adaptive cards in bots

Rodiger DevOps2021-04-09T11:09:08+00:00October 29th, 2020|Tags: Chatbot, Intermediate|

Adaptive Cards are platform-agnostic snippets of UI, authored in JSON, that apps and services can openly exchange. They adapt their UI to the platform's standard UI so adaptive cards in MS Teams will look different than in Slack, but they'll all have the same features.

Azure bot registration

Rodiger DevOps2021-04-09T13:57:42+00:00October 29th, 2020|Tags: Beginner, Chatbot|

Bot channel registration, in Azure Portal, is where you register your bot and connect your bot to desired channels. Channels are really just your chat platforms like MS Teams, Slack or Skype.