Shows - Web-Hack-Wednesday


Custom Speech Service and Beezy[MP4] [0:23:21] [2017/03/16]
Martin and Martin look at the Custom Speech Service and how it was used in a bot project that Martin Beeby worked on with a company called Beezy. The Custom Speech service allows developers to train a…


Web Audio[MP4] [0:14:09] [2017/03/01]
This week Martin and Martin look at the WebAudio API and how it can be used to generate Audio in a browser and it's potential to be used to create visualisations.


Web Notification API[MP4] [0:14:09] [2017/02/22]
Martin and Martin look at the Web Notification API to send notifications to your users via your browser.


Using Azure Functions to Keep a Site Online[MP4] [0:09:40] [2017/02/16]
In this Episode Martin and Martin look at a little hack to keep Website on the free tier Always on.


LUIS and HowHappy.co.uk mashup[MP4] [0:23:12] [2017/02/08]
Martin and Martin add the Cognitive Language Understanding Intelligence Service (LUIS) to the howhappy.co.uk website.


Question and Answer Bot[MP4] [0:17:51] [2017/02/01]
This Week Martin and Martin use the QandA Maker and Azure functions to create a bot that can convert any Frequently Asked Questions page into a fully functioning chat bot.


Creating 404 middleware in ASP.NET core[MP4] [0:13:35] [2017/01/25]
In this episode Martin and Martin look at how you create custom middleware and use it to give users 404 status code error pages.


Recommendations API[MP4] [0:17:58] [2017/01/18]
Martin and Martin look at Recommendations API in Microsoft Cognitive Services and show how you can use it to give your website users useful product recommendations. You can find out more about the…


Bots in Node[MP4] [0:18:04] [2017/01/11]
Martin and Martin look at how you can use Node.js to build a bot for Facebook Messenger, Skype, Slack and many other channels with the Microsoft Bot Framework.


Azure Deployment[MP4] [0:19:37] [2016/06/22]
Martin and Martin take a brief look at the numerous ways you can deploy to Azure.


Package Managers[MP4] [0:24:48] [2016/06/02]
Martin and Martin look at the three main package managers used in ASP.net Core. Bower, Nuget and NPM explaining what each are used for in the context of an ASP.net core application.


Azure Functions[MP4] [0:25:28] [2016/05/18]
This week Martin and Martin look into Azure functions, an event driven platform as a service that allows you to execute functions of code when specific things happen. Martin Kearn uses this new…


The Future of Javascript[MP4] [0:21:33] [2016/05/12]
Martin and Martin look into the new features of ECMA2015 the next version of the JavaScript Standard. They cover: ClassesArrow FunctionsConstTemplate StringsLetFor of LoopDefault ParametersRest and…


Tag Helpers in ASP.Net Core[MP4] [0:24:43] [2016/05/04]
This week Martin and Martin look into Tag Helpers a new feature in Razor views inside of ASP.net Core. They build a basic tag helper and consume it from within an ASP.Net Core project.


How Happy Are You? Cordova Edition[MP4] [0:21:50] [2016/04/20]
This week Martin and Martin look at building an Apache Cordova app that uses Microsoft Cognitive services to determine the emotions of faces in a picture. The app uses Ionic for the UI and can be…


How happy are you?[MP4] [0:21:17] [2016/04/14]
This week Martin and Martin look at building an ASP.NET Core website that uses Microsoft Cognitive services to determine the emotions of faces in a picture. You can see the finished website at…


Intro to Entity Framework Core[MP4] [0:21:12] [2016/04/06]
This Week Martin and Martin Hack around with Entity Framework Core 1.0 and show how you create a simple model and build a database from it.


JavaScript Promises and Async[MP4] [0:22:32] [2016/03/23]
Martin and Martin look at promises in JavaScript a succinct way of dealing with Asynchronous code. They also peek into the future of JavaScript demoing new Async/Await syntax for JavaScript.


Scale a Web App Using Azure Scale Out [MP4] [0:17:48] [2016/03/10]
Martin and Martin look into how you can set Azure up to automatically scale out your web application when load increases. They talk a little about why you might want to set up auto scaling, configure…


ASP.NET Core Middleware Basics[MP4] [0:32:59] [2016/03/03]
Martin and Martin look into ASP.NET Core and delve into startup.cs, how it works and how to compose your application pipeline.


Machine Learning for Muggles[MP4] [0:21:30] [2016/02/24]
Martin and Martin look into Machine learning for web developers (and muggles).


Gulp Web Standards Plugin[MP4] [0:15:52] [2016/02/17]
In this week's episode Martin and Martin take a look at the Gulp-webstandards plugin built by Rami Sayer and team from Microsoft Canada. The plugin allows you to run your static content, such as HTML…


Web Performance[MP4] [0:18:35] [2016/02/10]
Martin and Martin look at Web performance and how to make websites faster.


Office Add-ins[MP4] [0:19:19] [2016/02/03]
Martin and Martin take a look at how to use your web skills to build office Add-ins


Browser and Device Detection in Websites[MP4] [0:22:10] [2016/01/27]
Martin Beeby (@thebeebs) and Martin Kearn (@martinkearn) host their weekly show, this week talking to James Rosewell from 51 degrees about browser detection, device detection and the difficulties in…


Gulp[MP4] [0:29:45] [2016/01/20]
Martin and Martin look into Gulp a JavaScript task runner that's used in many web frameworks including ASP.NET to automate build tasks


Hybrid Apps[MP4] [0:25:49] [2016/01/13]
Martin and Martin Look at Hybrid apps converting a website into an app using a tool called manifoldjs. Any questions or feedback please use the twitter hashtag #WebHackWed