Archives of Intermediate level blog articles

The intermediate tag on a blog post means the text is suitable for people who are somewhat familiar with that field. They should also have some prior experience in that specific field. The text may also contain some more difficult english terms and some more technical terms. So, you should be able to understand some IT specific terms.

Useful NPM packages for Node.js – March 2022

Rodiger DevOps2022-03-10T12:59:38+02:00March 9th, 2022|Tags: Coding, Intermediate, JavaScript, Node.js, npm|

To solve a development task, it's better to take a step by step approach. That's why developers create and use packages. In this article series called "Useful NPM packages for Node.js" we will periodically publish a collection of NPM packages that will give us the functionality of working with web services, time, configuration files, encryption, standardization and many more. So let's get started.

BotFramework dialogs

Rodiger DevOps2021-07-05T07:04:22+02:00November 17th, 2020|Tags: Chatbot, Intermediate|

Dialogs are a highlight of BotFramework 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 botframework dialogs, bots can give you real "dialog" experience.

Benefits of automation

Rodiger DevOps2021-07-01T13:25:17+02:00November 2nd, 2020|Tags: Automation, Intermediate|

Benefits of automation can manifest in many different ways. From cost reduction and time savings to better profuctivity and business predictions. It also raises your client's satisfaction and reassures them to use your services.

Adaptive cards in bots

Rodiger DevOps2021-07-01T12:56:42+02:00October 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.

Bot development

Rodiger DevOps2021-07-01T12:38:28+02:00October 27th, 2020|Tags: Chatbot, Coding, Intermediate|

This article introduces you to bot development which includes starting and testing your bot firstly. Secondly it teaches you to understand bot's scripts and how to write one yourself.