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Azure Function x64 dev setup
Azure

Azure Function x64 dev setup

Last week I needed an Azure Function to be compiled for the x64 platform because of a dependency. It was a long google search and a lot of try and fail. Looking back it was actually very very easy. Here a summary of what I did to get it working on my local machine using Visual Studio 2017 on Windows 10

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Speech to Text in an Azure Function
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Speech to Text in an Azure Function

Sometimes it is just easier to record some information instead of typing it. Recordings are great, you can just sit back and listen to them, but sometimes you just want to scan over the text or maybe your environment is not the best for listening to audio. I recently had a case like that and I made an Azure Function that can process spoken text into written text and store this output in an Azure Table.

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Azure Search, The basics
Azure

Azure Search, The basics

Adding search to a website is always a bit tricky and takes a lot of time to implement correctly. Azure Search and the Azure Search Library makes adding search capability to a website or application a lot easier. Azure Search…

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