Category Archives: Essentials

Joe Dluzen joins me to discuss, in depth, distributed computing and Docker. The podcast is here and the video is here.

I’ve been looking at a number of different ways to build Agents. I’ve settled on two and will be documenting what I learn as I go: The advantage of the first is that you understand the underlying mechanisms in more … Continue reading →

As promised, I’ll be posting slides and commentary from my recent user-group presentation on AI (Boston Code Camp). One of my first slides talked about the near-term evolution of AI, defined as either 1-2 years or 6 months, depending on … Continue reading →

In a special videoCast, Lance McCarthy of Progress Software dives deep into MCP, not only explaining what it is for and how it works, but demonstrating, in code, how it is done. MCP (Model, Context, Protocol) is an open standard … Continue reading →

In examining my HyperVideo project I decided that the Bunny video was a great placeholder, but what I really wanted was my own videos. What better place to start than the videos I have up on YouTube. How am I … Continue reading →

When working with CoPilot in Visual Studio, the single most important thing is context. Context tells CoPilot what it is working on, what it should already know, what language conventions to use, etc., etc. CoPilot wants to help, but its … Continue reading →

This series on AI is going to take two paths: If you are writing apps, you have a couple choices (well, more than a couple). One choice is to stay in the Azure/.NET world, in which case C# is just … Continue reading →

Every two years or so I publish a list of the utilities I find indispensable. It is interesting to me which ones last year after year (e.g., Evernote) and which fall off the list—often because the functionality I want has … Continue reading →