Tutorial Walkthroughs – Request Splitter

Tutorial snapshot of the request splitter example from “Designing Distributed Systems”

A few good things about strings in .net 7

Back in 2003, when the web was young (and so was I), Joel Spolsky, co-creator of StackOverflow declared this: “So I have an announcement to make: if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I’m going to punish […]

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Still having fun with ChatGPT: Building a multi-tier app

Built with ChatGPT!

Let’s build an app to help me keep track of certain bits of technology news. The name of the app will be CWACON: Cloudy With a Chance of News.
It will be a combination of a browser app to display a summary of the set of news collected, as well as a c# console app to produce the news summaries.

New on InfoQ: Moving to .NET 7 MSMQ Alternatives

New long-form article on InfoQ: Moving to .NET 7 MSMQ Alternatives. Articles like this are a really good way for me to explore concepts with a certain rigor that helps make them even clearer for me. It brought a decent set of realizations, too. Check it out!

Fun with #ChatGPT

Or, how quickly can you mock up a demo in ChatGPT? The morning of my presentation for DevFest 2022, a friend of mine shared that gif on Facebook. I was curious as to how quickly I could build something like that in ChatGPT. I literally prompted my way to success, in a few, somewhat poorly […]

“7000 others”

“I haven’t heard about any AI-forward projects [in the Caribbean]” – that’s a quote from a recent episode of This Week In Caribbean Tech. Admittedly, I first saw the episode it was via this tweet: The long tail of my disagreement started when I saw the tweet and it continued to percolate for a good […]

1000m

Doing new things can be hard. Still try. That’s it, that’s the whole post.

Development-as-a-Service

It’s early days yet, but the sooner we face the music, the more ready we’ll be to adapt. I was listening to “Precious Things” from a recent Lupe Fiasco album. In it, he personified his hands and sang about the conflict he, the artist was engaged in with his instruments of expression – his hands. […]

Azure Skills Navigator (a real one)

I saw this tweet from @msdev: I literally read the first line and thought, Yes! They’re doing that cool thing I’d envisioned a while back. I clicked through to the post. That’s when I saw what I should have seen in the second line of the tweet, “…a ramp-up guide for developers”. Bummer. I mean, […]

Conversational+Intelligence

I mentioned PSI before. And I’m pretty sure I will again. Microsoft’s Platform for Situated Intelligence has a lot of potential. I was reminded about it today with this tweet: From the PSI lab, they released a great demo that I’ve spent some time playing with. With PSI, you can access all the streams of […]