DEV Community: Ross Summerell

Seeking Recommendations for WhatsApp Business Solution Providers

Ross Summerell — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 09:50:26 +0000

Hi everyone,

I’m currently exploring options for a Third Party WhatsApp Business partner, and I’d love to hear from those with experience. There are several providers out there, each with its own unique features. However, I’m struggling to find factual arguments that would sway my decision.

So far, I’ve looked into Twilio and AWS Pinpoint. My goals include sending Business Templates as Notifications and establishing a two-way communication between our company and clients. We might also consider implementing bot communications down the line.

If you’ve worked with any WhatsApp Business Solution Providers, please share your insights on why you chose a particular provider. Your experiences and recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you in advance!

Hosting > Laravel Web App's on Azure

Ross Summerell — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 12:43:18 +0000

So I've been playing around with Azure for a few days now trying to find out if its a way forward for hosting out Web apps. We are based in South Africa and recently had our own data center installed here. However I must admit I am finding it hard to get things working with Azure ( Mainly Composer Installed ). I wanted to get opinions from people here if its kind of a 'no no' to go down this path or to hear about any success stories. I completely understand that it would work really well for other languages but I am really looking from a php / Laravel stand point. TIA!

Native Javascript element selector best practice

Ross Summerell — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 10:32:01 +0000

Hey all,

So coming from Jquery, I was always told the best method to select an element is to give it a class name and use the $(".someElementClass") method.

However now not using Jquery in my Vue project, what is the best practice for selecting elements.

I am currently giving elements ID's and using the document.getElementById("someElementID");

Very curious to see what peoples opinions are!

Javascript App Advice

Ross Summerell — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 12:55:36 +0000

Hey guys,

Really enjoy dev.to thank you!

I am a novice programmer, I have C# SQL Javascript experience, but in this past year have improved my javascript knowledge tenfold.

I've been working with and really enjoy Polymer 2, then 3 and now dabbing in a little Lit-html.
However, I am taking a break from the main app, I am planning to build a dashboard PWA for a client.

I can't really find the sufficient tooling in Polymer/webcomponents at the moment to build a 'Wow' dashboard so I am going to be looking at probably some Javacript frameworks.

I haven't ever used any before and wanted to ask for suggestions on what to look at first. I want to use purely Javascript as that is my strong point.

I would also welcome any comments on my approach using Polymer/webcomponents for building my main app, as sometimes I feel like I may have taken the wrong path down a cross road.

Educate someone who feels like he is living under a rock, and doesn't know which way to tunnel.

TIA!

Best Practice / Standard for API calls

Ross Summerell — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 07:07:32 +0000

Good day all,

I've been brain storming an issue I have and thought maybe someone could point out the best practice for my situation.

I have build a .Net Core 2 Restful API. Its still being pieced together but I am running into a 'issue' which I am not sure of which is the best solution.

When calling my https://apiURL.com/AddressBook

I then can sent through an array of parameters from

PageSize
PageNumber
SearchFor & SearchBy ( these go hand in hand as its the field to search by what value but will have a default )

EG: https://apiURL.com/AddressBook?pageNumber=1&Pagesize=500

I am extending this list

OrderBy

Filterfor & FilterBy

The problem is I don't know how to add these to the URL as well, as you can order by more then one column at once, as well as add multiple filters.

Would anyone have some suggestions?

Voice Recording from Microphone with a Polymer 2 App!

Ross Summerell — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 20:09:41 +0000

Hello!

So I was wondering if anyone had gone down this path and could throw some light towards the subject.

I am building a Polymer 2 App Aimed towards Mobile.
Busy taking a bit of a "break" from it to see what cool stuff I can do.

What I'd like to do is a Voice to Text function.

I've been doing my research and I want to use the Cloud Google Speech API (Which looks amazing!)

That I can figure out as its an API hit.

So what I am left with is recording the audio first before I can send it.

I've looked at 2 ready made elements, App-Media and Voice-Elements without much success.

I figured this should be something I can do quiet easily, however examples for a polymer styled voice recorder aren't easy to come by but I have found a few short blog posts on ways to do this, but I thought I'd come here and see what you guys would suggest?