At Build 2017 Microsoft demonstrated the Custom Vision Service. This extremely cool service enables you to identify your own objects and things in images. It is easy, just upload a set of 6 to 12 images, hit the train button and start calling the REST API.
May 2017 I went with my colleague Daniel van der Starre to Microsoft Build 2017 in Seattle. Build is a 3 day conference hosted by Microsoft to inform developers about what is going on in developers world at Microsoft. During the conference Daniel and I made a some movies!
An overview of some inspiring sessions about Cognitive Services from Build 2017
I've created a task that allows you to set App Settings of a Azure App Service in a simple key value based task. Just add a key='value' in a textbox and the script will set the app setting.
Code and Comedy is Ordina's yearly event. Mixing technical talks and standup comedy make this a event one of kind. During the event I gave a small breakout session about the power of the Microsoft Cognitive Services.
Adding search to a website is always a bit tricky and takes a lot of time to implement it correctly. Azure Search and the Azure Search Library makes adding search capebilty to a website or application a lot easier. Azure Search runs as a service in the Azure Cloud so their is no need anymore to setup and maintain expensive's virtual machines. And even better the first 10.000 documents in the search DB are free.
Running VM's can be expensive especially when you don't use them. With this code sample for a RunBook you can make sure that your VM is shutdown at a specified time.
A blog by Henk Boelman