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, […]

First a11y bot [Updated]

In which Irwin and Daniel Gordon participate in a hackathon with a focus on Accessibility.

Back to the Sky: Processing Satellite Data Using Cloud Computing

From time to time, I work with researchers on projects outside of the day to day, forms-over-databases stuff. Mind you, I like a nice form over a cool data repository as much as the next guy, but it’s definitely cool to stretch your arms and do something more. So, when Dr. Ogundipe approached me about […]

I’m a student, where can I Azure? (freeness welcome)

Whenever I teach cloud technologies, I emphasize practical applications, even for the newest students. This really helps the topic come alive and allows the students to engage the material in a more realistic way. As it turns out, a few of my friends reached out to me about Azure resources for learners, so, I thought […]

Trinidad and Tobago Azure Users Group

We’re having the first of many (I hope) Microsoft Azure users meeting this Thursday (February 13). I’m excited by this because here in Trinidad, I’m grateful that in and around Teleios, we’ve been using Azure for years, and I’ve often wondered about who else around us is learning, playing and building on the platform. Nigel […]

Making a map.

I like how WordPress’ default on these blog posts is “tell your story”. LOL. Recently, I described wanting to use Azure App Insights for dependency tracking. I started by looking at documentation on it. I ended up using this, along with this video. As I started looking into the first place to drop in dependency […]

Conquering complexity with a map

Last year, I worked with a researcher to develop a really cool, complex Azure solution to augment her work flow with some data. She needed to ingest a large volume of data, clean it up, run some AI on that and then present it. Typical data science activities that she wanted to run in the […]

Project VILMA

Sometimes, I get home and just wish I could say to my virtual machine in the cloud, “magico presto, turn on!” and it’s on and ready for me to remote into and do things. I wanted to do things to make that happen, but time and procrastination happens to many. Thankfully, there was an upcoming […]

Provisioning some test storage accounts for class

I wanted to create a few storage accounts for students in my class to complete an assignment featuring Event Sourcing and Material Views. So, here’s what I did. Download/install the latest azure command line interface (cli). (While doing this, I realized I could have just used the cloud shell. I soldiered on with the dl) […]

Teaching Cloud Technologies (2016/2017)

We just concluded another run of the Cloud Technologies course at the University of the West Indies. This course is part of the MSc Computer Science program. As lecturer, I had to come up with the course outline as well as the content. In so doing, I get the opportunity to refresh what we talk […]