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#VS2017 – Hello QWorld using Microsoft #Quantum Development Kit (fix to build the project) [Updated]

Hi! Today is a special day, from this moment on, 98% of what I learned at the university is no longer useful for me. I will no longer use binary states in my computing devices, now is time to work with Quantum States. In fact, there is still a long way to make this a… — read more

Dec 12, 2017
#Humor – Runtime error vs Compiler error

Hi! Old school Javascript developers will understand this one Greetings @ Burlington El Bruno Source: MonkeyUser, compiler error vs runtime error Braulio’s Tweet, https://twitter.com/braulio_sl/status/939968030548905985 — read more

Dec 10, 2017
#Event – Microsoft Tech Summit Toronto. Dec 13 & 14 :D

Hello! Fast post on Friday that Alexa has me completely stuck. Next week one of the biggest events for developers in Toronto takes place. Microsoft Tech Summit Toronto (link) This is a 2 days event with sessions covering many technologies (not only Microsoft ones), take a look at the agenda and you will be impressed.… — read more

Dec 8, 2017
#Personal – Contest: The #Alexa and #Arduino #SmartHome Challenge

Hi! Over the next few days/weeks/months I’ll be working with Amazon Alexa. That’s why it is very likely that during this time I wrote a couple of posts about Amazon Alexa, and obviously the first thing I will do is to test the relationship between Cortana and Alexa that was presented a few months ago.… — read more

Dec 6, 2017
#VisualStudio – JSON Viewer, excellent extension to work with #JSON contents

Hi! When I’m in debug mode in Visual Studio, I always use several options to view debugging data. Text, XML and JSON are the default data viewers ones that we have in the IDE (as far as I know!). What I do not find in the IDE is an external viewer in JSON format. Lucky… — read more

Dec 5, 2017
#Humor – #AI inside

Hi ! Neuronal networks? Machine Learning? Deep Learning? or maybe … Greetings @ Burlington El Bruno Source, CommitStrip — read more

Dec 3, 2017
#Event – Materials used on the event Tech talk – Cognitive Services For ISV

Hi! A couple of days ago I was fortunate to be part of the event [Tech talk-Cognitive services For ISV] where I shared and talked about some real scenarios for Cognitive services. I used a couple of slides only as support materials, however most of the time I presented applications and source code. In the… — read more

Dec 1, 2017
#Podcast – NTN 41 – The world is your office with Héctor Giner, CEO en @wearecommite

Hello! Today I am lucky enough to speak with Héctor Giner (@hectorginer) in a Toronto, Seville connection. Initially we were going to talk about some strategies to manage work with clients in remote locations, Although on the way the conversation led us to share experiences of another type. In example, combining family schedules with working… — read more

Nov 29, 2017
#Event – Making AI easier with Azure #CognitiveServices

Hi! Another week of events, in this case talking about Cognitive Services at the Microsoft offices in Toronto. After a general review of the technology, I’ll talk about some examples of use of various services, for example: Computer Vision, Face API, Emotion API, Language Understanding Intelligent Service and Custom Speech service. MeetUp information: Making AI easier… — read more

Nov 27, 2017
#Humor – How to learn C++ in 21 days

Hi! Greetings @ Burlington El Bruno Source Geeks are sexy — read more

Nov 26, 2017
#Tip – Tips to enable presentation mode in # Windows10 (Also applies to Win7, Win8 and Win8.1)

Hello! Quite offtopic for today’s post. I’ll write this down here so the next time I have to explain it, I share the link of this post. It’s a raw estimation, bur I think I spend 30% of the time in front of a computer in presentation mode. This is not only sharing slides, it… — read more

Nov 23, 2017
#VS2017 – Commands with the basic movements for an #Minecraft Agent with #ProjectMalmo

Hi! Today I will share how to perform 2 basic Agent movements in Minecraft Move along Turn The code example at the end of the post, is part of a ConsoleApp, which once connected to the Minecraft host, controls the movement of the current player / agent. The script advances a series of steps, then… — read more

Nov 20, 2017
#Humor – Defrag explained

Hi! Greetings @ Burlington El Bruno Source: http://bitsandpieces.us/2017/11/zebra-defrag/ — read more

Nov 19, 2017
#Flow – Analyzing images in 3 steps with Microsoft Flow and Computer Vision #CognitiveServices

Hi! Today I put on hole my posts on Project Malmo and Minecraft, because thanks to some new connectors in Microsoft Flow, I was able to create an image analysis Mobile App in a matter of minutes. When we create a Flow triggered using a button, we have a new data type [File] for input… — read more

Nov 16, 2017
#VS2017 – #Minecraft missions options in Xml format #ProjectMalmo

Hi! In this post I will explain some of the configurations and options we can define in the mission files. The sample file is at the end of the post. Line 21 defines the name of the Agent The <AgentStart /> element defines the initial position of the agent. The following image shows how to… — read more

Nov 15, 2017
#VS2017 – Sample ConsoleApp to initialize missions in #Minecraft with Xml #ProjectMalmo

Good! Before continuing to analyze the sections that have an xml file with the definition of a mission in Minecraft, I will share a small ConsoleApp sample project which creates from scratch the necessary elements to interact in a Minecraft mission. The function that initializes the mission from a file is This file contains hidden… — read more

Nov 14, 2017
#Humor – Copy & Paste on Windows, I’m still waiting …

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Nov 12, 2017
#VS2017 – Definition of #Minecraft missions in Xml format #ProjectMalmo

Hi! In yesterday’s post I wrote on how to create a mission in Minecraft using code. Now, if we need to create a world with special characteristics, one of the options we can consider is to define these options in a mission definition file, in XML format. The definition scheme of the mission is quite… — read more

Nov 10, 2017
#VS2017 – #Minecraft game interaction agents, missions definitions and recording with #ProjectMalmo

Hi! I am going to write some posts about Project Malmo, Minecraft and Visual Studio 2017. I still do not have very clear the order in which I will do them, so I will write and update them as I go along with my learning process. Once we have installed all the necessary prerequisites and… — read more

Nov 9, 2017
#Personal – Learning to code with #Minecraft? start with Hour of Code, #MakeCode and Project Malmo

Hello! December arrives and it’s time for one of my best moments of the year: Hour of Code. I have already written about this type of activities, and once again I recommend joining the community if you want to have a good time with children learning to program. As always, Minecraft is an almost mandatory… — read more

Nov 7, 2017