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#Humor – Best backup ever

Hi ! Maybe the best back up ever … Greetings @ Toronto -El Bruno Source: Somewhere in Internet — read more

May 1, 2016
#Bots – (I) Hello World in Bot mode with #VisualStudio 2015

Hi ! One of the coolest features that Microsoft present during last months was a Bot platform. At almost the same time other providers like Facebook also have presented their own version of bots, so is something that you must try in the near future. The official description is: The Microsoft Bot Framework Connector is… — read more

Apr 29, 2016
News – #Microsoft open Xamarin’s SDK, #Xamarin Forms previewer and more !!!

Hi ! I was facing a couple of busy days at work, so I miss a couple of news. Today I’ll pick the best one, directly from Evolve: Microsoft open sources Xamarin’s software development kit That’s great or what? In the past months we get Xamarin for free in Visual Studio (this is the official… — read more

Apr 28, 2016
#Windows10 – How to fix a broken Windows Store: WSReset

Hi ! I’m testing Windows 10 in the Windows Insider Fast Ring since the beginning of the test phases. So far, I’ve always learn something new in each release, and this week is related to the Microsoft Store. Since I move the latest build, I was not able to download any new software to my… — read more

Apr 25, 2016
#Humor–Trying Stuff until it works

Hi ! I finally found the source for all these amazing books: @ThePracticalDev Greetings @ Toronto El Bruno References The Practical Dev, @thepracticaldev Tweet, https://twitter.com/ThePracticalDev/status/717357082547208196 — read more

Apr 24, 2016
#VSGallery – Learn the Shortcut (for lazy mouse users like me!)

Hi ! Quick post on Friday with a very cool Visual Studio 2015 extension: Learn the shortcut. I’m a keyboard user, and you know, I try to learn all the shortcuts I can to make my life easier. And now, Mad Kristensen creates an amazing extension which help me to learn new shortcuts. The ways… — read more

Apr 22, 2016
#Coding4Fun – Cool projects / robots to play with #kids and learn some #programming skills

Hi ! During the past weeks some friends asked me about some cool projects to play with robots with their kids. So I’ll share 4 nice products which would give you much fun with your kids. Remember kids today doesn’t want to only consume toys, they want to create and interact with their inventions with… — read more

Apr 21, 2016
#Coding4Fun – What’s There App, source code and #VisionAPI description

Hi! Some people ask me a couple of questions regarding the What’s There App, so I’ll write this post to explain the basic features of the app. I explain to my kid with a simple schema, that the main steps of the app The phone will take a photo with the camera The photo will… — read more

Apr 20, 2016
#Coding4Fun – Cognitive Services, What’s there?

Hi ! Today’s I’ll add a new video to my Coding4Fun channel on Channel9. Today’s one was based on a question from Valentino (my son). He saw that I wasn’t using to much electronic devices (and robots) since we arrived to Toronto. I explained to him that we didn’t bring all the devices from Europe… — read more

Apr 19, 2016
#VisualStudio – Visual Code 1.0 Released !

Hi ! It’s been a busy year for the Visual Studio Code team, and a few days ago they reach one great milestone: Visual Studio Code 1.0. The first official release of the product. In the official news release you can find some insights about the history of the product, the more than 500000 users… — read more

Apr 18, 2016
#Humor – #Coding drunk, you probably also been there

Hi ! So fun, so true 😀 Greetings @ Toronto -El Bruno Source: http://ffffound.com/image/f2b3895e271bcc44ea2faa59d9ff4a57fd5ca1e8 — read more

Apr 17, 2016
#CognitiveServices – Recap on #APIs: Bing Auto Suggest, Bing Web Search and Text Analytics

Hi ! So, I’ll close the week with a quick recap of the posts I wrote about Cognitive Services How to start with some basic Azure configuration Bing Autosuggest API Bing Web Search API Text Analytics, language and sentiment detection Text Analytics, key phrases detection Text Analytics, key topics detection You can download and use… — read more

Apr 15, 2016
#CognitiveServices – Text Analytics API, new operation: detect key topics in documents

Hi ! Today’s review is for the final service included in Cognitive Services Text Analytics Api: Detect Key Topics. This is a new service which returns the topics which have been detected in multiple text articles. The service is designed to work well for short, human written text such as reviews and user feedback, and… — read more

Apr 13, 2016
#CognitiveServices – Text Analytics API, new operation: detect key phrases

Hi ! I added a new operation into the Text Analytics feature on the Cognitive Services. This is something that you used to see if you are a Microsoft Word user. This service can also extract key phrases, which denote the main talking points in the text. We employ techniques from Microsoft Office’s sophisticated Natural… — read more

Apr 12, 2016
#Podcast – NTN 03. A more informal one about how we start on IT, Spectrum, Arduinos and more ;)

Hi ! Today’s post is a special one, but let me explain why. They said that we learn from errors, and I learned with a big one. 2 weeks ago, I manage to make a test skype group call with some friends from Argentina. The test was great, we have a nice time online and… — read more

Apr 11, 2016
#Humor – The Entire company can be managed by a #monkey

Hi ! One more time, Dilbert makes my day And thanks to @lemoncoders on this one (sigh!) Shhhhhh !!! No le cuentes esto a tu jefe @elbruno vía @_deors pic.twitter.com/MLibsUFVMK — lemoncode (@lemoncoders) April 6, 2016 Greetings @ Toronto -El Bruno Source Dilbert, http://dilbert.com/strip/2010-01-18 — read more

Apr 10, 2016
#CognitiveServices – Text Analytics API, detect language, sentiment and more using #Azure

Hi ! Another sample for the Cognitive Services posts series. Today’s post is on Text Analytics API, and as always, let’s start with the official description Understanding and analyzing unstructured text is an increasingly popular field and includes a wide spectrum of problems such as sentiment analysis, key phrase extraction, topic modeling/extraction, aspect extraction and… — read more

Apr 8, 2016
#CognitiveServices – #Bing Web Search API, review feature and #Azure sample code

Hi ! Today’s post is still on the Cognitive Services new features, and today is for the main Bing feature: Search. Let’s start with the official description from the documentation The Bing Web Search API provides a similar (but not exact) experience to Bing.com/Search (overview on MSDN). The Bing Web Search API lets partners send… — read more

Apr 7, 2016
#CognitiveServices–#Bing Autosuggest API, cool new feature and some sample code

Hi ! After my yesterday post on how to get the new Cognitive Services API keys, today I’ll review one of the new services: Bing Autosuggest API. So as the main documentation explains: The Bing Autosuggest API lets partners send a partial search query to Bing and get back a list of suggested queries that… — read more

Apr 6, 2016
#CognitiveServices – How to start with some basic #Azure configuration (yes, cool and updated #ProjectOxford)

Hi ! Last week during Build 2016, Microsoft present a set of Artificial Intelligence APIs named Cognitive Services. These are the natural evolution of what we know as Project Oxford, and they include some interesting new features. Even if some of the features are very similar, I think is good (for me) to write a… — read more

Apr 5, 2016