El Bruno

#Training – Elements of AI, a free #ArtificialIntelligence training from Finland (with also an amazing story)

Hi! Via “The Verge” (see references), I found this amazing story. Last year, Finland launched a free online crash course in artificial intelligence with the aim of educating its citizens about the new technology. Now, as a Christmas present to the world, the European nation is making the six week program available for anyone to — read more

Dec 19, 2019
#VS2019 – Let’s do some image classification with #MLNET Model Builder! (AKA, let’s create an image classifier model without a line of code)

Hi! I’m getting ready for my last event of the year, and I just realize that in the latest update of Model Builder, we have the chance to build our own Image Classifier scenario. Let’s start with the official Model Builder definition (see references): ML.NET Model Builder provides an easy to understand visual interface to — read more

Dec 17, 2019
#Event – #GlobalAIBootcamp, thanks to @AvanadeInc and @MicrosoftCanada, here are some resources, feedback and more !

Hi ! The Global AI Bootcamp 2019 was a huge success, just take a look at this photo during the keynote And remember, this was the weather during the day, cold and snow. Even so, we had ~200 attendees at the Microsoft Offices in Mississauga. Speakers and Volunteers We had an amazing set of volunteers — read more

Dec 16, 2019
#Labs – Microsoft Teams available on #linux, and this is the right way to install it

Update: This post was written on 2019 Dec, so there was a lot of changes since them. Apologies if the links or screenshots are not like the ones you may find today Hi! I’ve using Microsoft Teams in Windows 10 and MacOS and the experience is amazing. When I was trying to work only in — read more

Dec 11, 2019
Artificial Intelligence – AI and the economic growth opportunities.

Originally posted on Ivana Tilca: After attending to the Microsoft AI Tour in Argentina last November 4th, I really believe that the world is beginning to move through a new industrial revolution in which we include Artificial Intelligence as part of our management solutions. We are talking about using AI in solutions that help us… — read more

Dec 10, 2019
#Event – #GlobalAIBootcamp 2019, we got an amazing Agenda, take a look !

Hi ! I’ve already wrote about the Global AI Bootcamp: a free one-day event organized across the world by local communities that are passionate about artificial intelligence on Microsoft Azure. Agenda – Saturday, 12/14/2019 MPR A MPR B MPR C 9:00am 9:00 AM — 30 min Registration and Breakfast 9:30am 9:30 AM — 60 min — read more

Dec 10, 2019
[Xamarin.Forms] Soporte a Gifs

Originally posted on Javier Suárez | Blog: Introducción Desde los inicios de Xamarin.Forms se contaba con soporte para diferentes formatos de imagen. Con la llegada de nuevas versiones llegaron nuevas opciones como FontImageSource. Con Xamarin.Forms 4.4 llega el soporte al formato gif y animaciones. Soporte al formato gif El uso de gif en Xamarin.Forms no… — read more

Dec 9, 2019
#Webinar – Drive real-world innovation with Azure AI

Hi! The partner opportunity for AI is worth a whopping $118 billion,* and I want to help you make the most of it. Join me and SYNNEX for a webinar on Thursday, December 12, at 2 PM ET where I’ll show you how you can capitalize on Azure AI solutions that solve real-world problems for — read more

Dec 8, 2019
#Event – Hurry up, the #GlobalAIBootcamp 2019 official registration is online !

Hi ! I’ve already wrote about the Global AI Bootcamp: a free one-day event organized across the world by local communities that are passionate about artificial intelligence on Microsoft Azure. And now we have the official Agenda and registration Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/global-ai-bootcamp-greater-toronto-area-2019-microsoft-canada-mississauga-hq-tickets-84920947841 As usual, one video is better than my words: See you on December 14th! — read more

Dec 6, 2019
[Xamarin.Forms] IndicatorView

Originally posted on Javier Suárez | Blog: Introducción Recientemente recibíamos en Xamarin.Forms un nuevo CarouselView. El CarouselView permite mostrar una colección donde se pueden desplazar los elementos haciendo deslizamientos (gestos de Swipe). A pesar de contar con diferentes opciones para gestionar el layout, orientación, espaciado, etc. una de las peticiones más habituales a la hora… — read more

Dec 6, 2019
#Windows10 – How to Install Connect app (yes, somehow is not part of my Windows 10 installation)

Hi! I’ve been using the Connect App for several years. It’s super useful when you need to share your Android screen to your Windows device, or any other device sharing screen scenario. However, today I realized that I don’t have my Connect app installed in my Windows 10 I don’t know why, maybe one of — read more

Dec 5, 2019
#Event – Caribbean Developer Conference 2020 at 40% Off #CDC2020

Conference pass + Workshop at 40% OFF! This unbelievable deal includes hotel accommodations, meals, drinks, access to the conference, and one pre-conference workshop. GET 40% OFF Offer only available until 12/08/19 Greetings @ Etobicoke El BRuno — read more

Dec 4, 2019
[Material] Monkey Conf 2019

Originally posted on Javier Suárez | Blog: El evento En España tenemos una gran comunidad Xamarin y con la idea de contar con un evento de desarrollo relacionado con Xamarin de gran tamaño, el año pasado nacía la Monkey Conf. Ante el buen recibimiento, no podía más que hacer lo posible para volver este año… — read more

Dec 3, 2019
#Event – Download all #MSIgnite sessions from the [Developer’s guide to AI] Learning Path

Hi! A few weeks ago I wrote a post where I explained how to download slides and videos for all the Microsoft Ignite 2019 sessions. It was very simple, just search for your preferred session at Just navigate to https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions And, in the session you got the link to download the slides and the video — read more

Dec 3, 2019
#CognitiveServices – #AnomalyDetector Service running on Containers (some #docker time!)

Hi! I was chatting about the new features and the use cases supported using the brand new (and still in Preview) Cognitive Services Anomaly Detector and I realized that we can use the service with local containers (instead of the cloud service), but there is something different in this Service. Why to use containers? Azure — read more

Dec 2, 2019
#Humor – How to Generate a Random String?

How to Generate a Random String? Open Vim, and ask a 1st year computer science student to save and exit Greetings @ Burlington El Bruno — read more

Dec 1, 2019
#Event – Resources used at #BotTO November 2019 Meetup @ TD

Hi ! Long and amazing day yesterday around Bots and other Machine Learning technology. As usual, it’s time to share the resources and slides used on the BotTO Meetup @ TD event. Slides Microsoft Ignite #MustWatch Sessions THR2136 – Create sophisticated, enterprise-ready bots from your existing data, with no code using Azure Cognitive Services QnA — read more

Nov 27, 2019
CollabTalk Podcast at #MSIgnite: How Culture Drives Innovation

Hi! During Ignite I was lucky enough to have some amazing moments with awesome people. And this one is on my top 5: have the chance to talk about Culture and Innovation at the Microsoft Ignite Podcast Center, with Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet), Tracy Van der Schyff (@tracyvds) and Eric Riz (@rizinsights). As I said, it — read more

Nov 26, 2019
Properly Comparing Strings with Globalization and Performance in .NET

Originally posted on dotNetTips.com: In Microsoft .NET there are many ways to compare strings. I would say that most of the code I analyze, I see it done one of these two ways: bool result = email1 == email2; bool result = email1.Equals(email2); Is this the best way to compare strings? The quick answer… — read more

Nov 26, 2019
#CognitiveServices – Easy lines to convert CSV to JSON to be used on the #AnomalyDetector service

Hi! After the event “Building an Anomaly Detector System with a few or no lines of code” at MsftReactor, some people asked for the 2 lines that I used to convert a CSV file to JSON, to be used with Cognitive Services Anomaly Detector, so here they are. Important: you need Newtonsoft.Json to build the — read more

Nov 25, 2019