A good way to get ideas and some coding best practice is to look at some examples, there are many of them using C# hosted on GitHub here. I wanted to walk through what they are so I can for myself find or discover some new ideas and best practices for this, as I am […]
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1000 must have utterances for your chatbot using LUIS
My #chatbot is intended only to be pleasant, not to be philosophical or answer complicated political or social questions. As companies create #chatbot to serve a purpose, they should also maintain a level of fun and make sure the #chatbot has at least a limited personality. Utterances are questions which can be or have been […]
Read More →Most common chatbot questions and how to answer them
If you haven’t heard about #chatbots #chatbot then consider yourself lucky to have found this page because you are about to learn about them. They will soon be everywhere and are actually very helpful for answering a majority of questions. The problem I want to resolve is the baseline, in that there needs to be […]
Read More →Capture and Analyze Brain Waves using Azure
I wrote this article for the November 2016 MSDN Magazine, it is part one of a two part series. Part two is coming next month, December 2016. Part one of the article covers: The configuration of Emotiv SDK The configuration of the Azure IoT Hub Part two of the article covers the remaining topics: Creating […]
Read More →How to tell which Azure PowerShell version you are running
I have see a lot of articles about running complicated cmdlets searching for the version of Azure PowerShell they are running. First, I always install Microsoft components using the Web Platform Installer, similar to that shown in Figure 1. Figure 1, how to install Microsoft Azure PowerShell Then to see what version it is, I […]
Read More →What I learned from sleeping with the band
I have been using the Microsoft Band since it was brought to market and I am a big fan of it. Although I actively use all its features, I have learned the most about myself and made the most changes to myself based on the data captured during my sleep. (be sure to read the […]
Read More →Creating a Wi-Fi connection to my Lumia 640XL, with the Gadgeteer
My first Gadgeteer project I wrote about here used an Ethernet connection. However, this limited the mobility of my device and therefore wanted to configure the device to connect to a Wi-Fi network. I must mention that another coolness factor with this Wi-Fi project was I used the Wi-Fi internet sharing capability on my Microsoft […]
Read More →Create an IoT Device Using the Gadgeteer with Azure Blob Storage
Please have a read of my article I wrote about an IoT device project I created. It was published in this month’s MSDN Magazine. Figure 1, MSDN Magazine Here is a picture of the actual Gadgeteer device. Figure 2, IoT Device
Read More →Upload an image to an Azure Blob container using the Gadgeteer (Part 2, source download)
If you have not already read the first part of this blog, please check it out Part 1 here. Uploaded the image to the Azure Blob container This…..was…..hard…. The code wasn’t hard, but getting the header formatted into the correct format was a hurdle, using the Micro Framework. It’s actually not possible to use the […]
Read More →Upload an image to an Azure Blob container using the Gadgeteer (Part 1)
I wrote an article here that explained how I got an HTTPS request to work from my Gadgeteer. This was one of the steps I took during the process of achieving my ultimate goal of storing an image, taken from a camera and placing it into an Azure Blob container. Sure, taking a picture and […]
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