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Builder of Software• Practitioner of AI, Azure, Cybersecurity • Founder of https://bostonazure.com • Creator of https://SemanticKernel.dev • Author of http://bit.ly/billbook ● https://x.com/codingoutloud • https://www.linkedin.com/in/billwilder • ☁⛰🥾
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Microsoft Edge just informed me that because it "contains malware" the extension "SearchGPT - ChatGPT for Chrome" is now blocked.

Microsoft Disability Scholarship are now open for applications. Deadline is March 13, 2025. Get the details: www.microsoft.com/en-us/divers... #Accessibility #Microsoft

30M users 1B posts 🤝 bluesky milestone achieved this week

SPEAKERS WANTED: Boston Code Camp is looking for new and experienced speakers to share knowledge on all developer topics at their March 29th event. Please submit your talks at https://buff.ly/3E0ZwX3. Submissions are open till Feb 21 at 6:01pm ET. #SharingIsCaring #Boston #Code

Save the date: March 29 is Boston Code Camp, the legendary FREE developers conference in Burlington, MA! Come learn from the experts! https://buff.ly/4g6sHFv Call for speakers is open now #Code #SoftwareDevelopment #SharingIsCaring #Boston

Just learned of github.com/microsoft/cl... which is a tool for presenters to hide ("cloak") sensitive details shown in the Azure portal (and Entra, others). Selectively cloak secrets, GUIDs, URLs, account email address at top-right and a few other types. Can also use to improve your own memory. :-)

People in the Scrum camp sometimes panic when they can’t finish a story within the Sprint, which they classify as a failure. That’s not actually how it works. 1/7

Registration open: #free, IN-PERSON, hands-on, full-day workshop to learn #AI + #LLM w/ #SemanticKernel in C#. "AI Agents and Semantic Kernel demystified in one day." -Prior Attendee If you can be in Cambridge MA on Fri Jan 31, go here: bit.ly/40FRbRu w/ x.com/haleyjason & @codingoutloud.com

Want to really optimise every inch of your 💰Azure costs💰? Look no further than The Azure Orphaned Resources Workbook! A open-source Azure Workbook that I've covered in my latest blog post. sysadmin-central.com/2025/01/20/t... #Azure #FinOps #Optimisation #Cloud #Microsoft

Join me welcoming @bostonazureai.org to #bluesky! After running for 15 years as Boston Azure, today we announced official rebranding to Boston Azure AI. #BostonAzureAI carries on by continuing to deliver community events, but now with LOTS OF #AI, #LLM, and still #Azure. Dets: bit.ly/40FRbRu

Boston Azure AI: Boston Azure is changing calls signs I was in the audience at the Microsoft PDC on Nov 3, 2008 where Windows Azure was unveiled on stage by Ray Ozzie in the conference's opening keynote. At the 16:45 mark he graciously tipped his hat to Jeff Bezos and the AWS team, then announced…

Talk: AI for Application Architects Last night I was guest speaker at the Boston .NET Architecture community group. I learned they are now 21-year-olds. That's a long track record! The audience had some insightful questions, which I always appreciate. My talk focused on the perspective of the…

Have you tried Zen Mode in VS Code? If you haven't, I recommend trying it out to see if it helps you stay more focused and productive.

Details of my talk from 37th Boston Code Camp #boscc - thank you @BostonCodeCamp team! #AI #SemanticKernel http://blog.codingoutloud.com/2024/11/23/talk-building-an-agent-with-semantic-kernel/

Talk: Hello Semantic Kernel and Giving your AI a Goal At Virtual Boston Azure tonight Jason Haley and I teamed up to talk about ways Gen AI can be integrated with your existing systems. In the case of… http://blog.codingoutloud.com/2024/11/12/talk-hello-semantic-kernel-and-giving-your-ai-a-goal/