In the beginning of 2016, Weebly introduced their own App Center, allowing third-party developers to create new apps to extend the functionality of their website builder (a set of tools that allow you to create a website using an intuitive, drag-and-drop user interface). Finite Wisdom saw this as an opportunity to improve our name recognition in the web development community and proceeded to create four of these apps (all free). It's been almost a year since the first of those apps was released. In that time, the four apps have been installed on a total of 1,588,616 websites...
Read MoreProblem Solved for Lime Kiln Theater
Lime Kiln Theater is a live, outdoor performance venue on the outskirts of Lexington, Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley. In the spring of 2014, they were rising out of insolvency under new leadership. To minimize costs, they organized a large volunteer force with various skill sets. For their new web presence, they needed an approach that would...
Read MoreDEMO: Alexa, ask Finite Wisdom (Take 2)
Alexa is a virtual personal assistant from Amazon. Similar in spirit to offerings from Apple (Siri), Microsoft (Cortana) and Google (Assistant), you can speak to these personal assistants and ask them to read the weather report, play a song or tell you a joke. What truly sets Amazon's Alexa apart from the other personal assistants, however, is that it provides an API that programmers (like us) can use to define new skills for Alexa — teaching it new tricks. As a demonstration, Finite Wisdom has developed a new skill for Alexa that allows it to connect to Harvest, the time tracking application that we use to track the number of hours we bill each day to each of our clients. With this new skill in place, one of our clients can have a conversation like the following with Alexa...
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