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Dan Wahlin is co-founder and CEO of Wahlin Consulting. He handles the technical operations and has over 20 years of development and training experience. He's a Google Developer Expert (GDE), Microsoft MVP and is also part of Microsoft's Regional Director, ASP Insiders and Docker Captains programs.
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4M ago
One AI question I get a lot is, “What are some good prompt engineering resources?”. Here are a few I’ve found useful:
OpenAI Prompt Engineering Documentation
Azure OpenAI: Introduction to Prompt Engineering
Prompt Engineering Guide
DeepLearning.AI: ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers
Brex’s Prompt Engineering Guide
There are many more out there, but these will help get you started. If you have a favorite, please add a comment so others can see it too.
If you want to start using prompts in different Generative AI scenarios and learn more about AI building bl ..read more
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8M ago
I had the incredible opportunity to grace the stage at the 2023 ng-conf conference in beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah this past June. Every year, I look forward to this event, and it’s not just because of the scenic views or the pristine organization of the conference. The magic truly lies in the amazing people I get to chat with and the new friendships I forge. If you’re after a blend of fun, entertainment, and education, ng-conf is the place to be. Plus, let’s not forget the golden opportunity it provides to expand your network.
This year, I talked about a topic I’m really passionate about ..read more
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9M ago
Introduction
AI transformers have rapidly become one of the most popular and effective architectures in natural language processing and artificial intelligence. But what exactly are transformers, and how do they leverage embeddings to achieve state-of-the-art results on tasks like translation and text generation?
In this post, I’ll attempt to demystify tokens, embedding, and transformers by unveiling the magic behind their near-human linguistic abilities using a simple analogy – language is like LEGOs! While the overall goal is to introduce you to the key concepts, you’ll find additional links ..read more
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9M ago
Introduction
In this post, we’ll explore how you can get started using Azure OpenAI. We’ll take a look at setting up a resource using the Azure Portal, learn how to deploy a model, and experiment with the model in Azure OpenAI Studio.
If you’d like to see a quick overview of everything covered in this post, check out the following “getting started” video.
Getting Started with Azure OpenAI in 6-ish Minutes
Let’s dive right in!
Step 1: Create an Azure OpenAI Resource
Head over to the Azure Portal and locate the search bar at the top of the page. Search for Azure OpenAI, select that option, and ..read more
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9M ago
Have you ever spent hours carefully crafting the perfect OpenAI prompt, trying to coax your AI model into generating just the right response? As an AI developer, I know that struggle all too well especially when it comes to returning structured JSON. What if there was an easier way to retrieve JSON responses from OpenAI and Azure OpenAI models?
Meet TypeChat – an open source project from Microsoft that aims to make working with AI more efficient across different types of AI models by using TypeScript types (called “schemas”). Created by Anders Hejlsberg and team, TypeChat allows you to define ..read more
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10M ago
Artificial intelligence, communication, and organizational data are three pillars that can help take your custom Line of Business (LOB) applications to the next level. Each pillar brings unique capabilities to the table and enhances the functionality, usability, and productivity of applications and users. In this post you’ll learn more about these three pillars and how they can be integrated into apps using Microsoft Cloud services such as Azure OpenAI, Azure Communication Services (ACS), and Microsoft Graph. After you learn about the pillars, you can get hands-on experience provisioning cloud ..read more
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10M ago
This post is based on a section from my Docker for Web Developers course on Pluralsight.
Introduction
Docker and containers in general continue to receive a lot of attention, and it’s well-deserved. But, you may have found yourself wondering, “What exactly is Docker? Can it be useful for developers like me?” When I first encountered Docker at conferences and user group talks, I wondered whether it had a place in my overall work flow and how I’d use it in different environments such as development, staging, and production. But as I dug deeper, I discovered that Docker can significantly impact ..read more
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1y ago
I had the opportunity to talk at ng-conf (one of my favorite conferences of all time!) about how the Fluid Framework can be used to add real-time collaboration into your custom apps. In the talk I cover:
What you can build using real-time collaboration technologies
How to get started using the Fluid Framework
The role of SharedMap and how it’s similar to using the JavaScript Map object
How the Fluid Framework can be added to a custom Angular app
Check out the video from the talk below or visit https://fluidframework.com to access:
Project documentation
The project’s Github repository
The q ..read more
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1y ago
If you’re like most people, you use several custom applications every day at work to get things done. You’re entering data, viewing issues, editing and checking in code, making calls to others to verify process rules, and more. When was the last time you sat down and gave some serious thought to how these applications could be taken to the “next level” though? For example, what if team members could collaborate on the same content and communicate with each other in real-time directly from your app (using chat, audio and/or video) without having to switch to another app? Could this same overal ..read more
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1y ago
I have a work project that uses GitHub APIs to access stats about specific repos (views, clones, forks, etc.). It was pretty straightforward to get the project running locally using GitHub’s Octokit REST package and with a little work I had a working Node script that could be run to retrieve the data and display it in the console. That was a good start, but the script functionality needed to be consumed by others in my organization as well as by services such as Power Automate. What to do?
While I could easily convert the script into a Node/Express API and publish it to Azure App Service, I de ..read more