Talk: AI Chatbot → Agent with Model Context Protocol
MCP - Model Context Protocol - is coming up on its first birthday and adoption is currently on 🔥 fire 🔥 accelerating the creation and adoption of new MCP servers. Anthropic's original MCP specification: Tools and Libraries for building, testing,…
Boston Code Camp is pleased to welcome Bill Wilder who will present "AI Chatbot → Agent with Model Context Protocol" at their November 22nd event. Registration is free and open - buff.ly/zpsvf4s @codingoutloud.com
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
Join our virtual event Thu Oct 30 at 6:00 PM (Boston time) where Vaibhav Gujral bit.ly/vaibhavgujral returns as speaker for @bostonazureai.org to teach us about the ever-so-useful Azure Container App service.
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Join me at AgentCon Boston for a day of developer-focused content on AI Agents. Sat Sep 27 from 9-5 @ Microsoft NERD, Cambridge. bit.ly/4nwIn9b
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Talk: Human Language is the New UI. How this is possible?
I had the opportunity (15-Aug-2025) to talk to Azure Tech Group Bangladesh about how human language has become the new UI as part of their ML Summer School BD program. The talk was recorded and posted to YouTube. The tool used in demos to…
GitHub Copilot Agent Mode for the Win: I added a new Tool to MCP Server with Single Prompt
Along with fellow panelists Jason Haley, Veronika Kolesnikova (the three of us run Boston Azure AI), and Udai Ramachandrans (he runs Nashua Cloud .NET & DevBoston), I was part of a Boston Azure AI event to…
Talk: Empowering AI Agents with Tools using MCP
Last night I had the pleasure of speaking to two simultaneous audiences: Nashua Cloud .NET & DevBoston community tech groups. The talk was on Model Context Protocol (MCP) which, in a nutshell, is the rising star for answering the following question:…
Tdoday I delivered a revamped version of my talk on Human Language as the new UI and how that is possible. The event was AI Community Conference - AICO Boston - which was really excellent.
All resources (three demos, slides) are shared.
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Talk: Human Language is the new UI. How is this possible? at Memphis Global AI Community Bootcamp event!
Earlier today I spoke at the Memphis edition of the Global AI Bootcamp 2025 hosted by the Memphis Technology User Groups. My talk was "Human Language is the new UI. How is this possible?" and…
Talk: Human Language is the new UI. How is this possible? at Global AI Bootcamp 2025 – Cleveland edition
Earlier today I spoke at the Cleveland OH edition of the Global AI Bootcamp 2025 hosted by Sam Nasr of the Cleveland Azure group. My talk was "Human Language is the new UI. How is this…
I like that a lot. In a prior FinTech SaaS company we espoused a value of "Craft" which isn't identical but you might say it was to have High Standards in the (many) areas that matter.
Talk: Boston Code Camp 38 – Let’s Build a Goal-Oriented AI Agent Using Semantic Kernel
29-Mar-2025 Today I attended and contributed a talk to the Boston Code Camp 38 (yes, impressively, the 38th edition of this event). I made the trip with Maura (she gave a talk combining Cryptocurrency And…
I've been getting a lot of work done this morning! In unrelated news, appears x/twitter is down.
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-‘burgle’ from ‘burglar’
- ‘televise’ from ‘television’
- ‘donate’ from ‘donation’
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Great episode. Convinced me to give React a serious look (starting with React 19) in a greenfield app I'm ramping up.
💬 Register now for the 38th Boston Code Camp, the free developer's conference on March 29! We have an amazing array of speakers and topics, with lots of the latest AI knowledge, all for free. check it out!
AI showing off its math skills
Looking forward to it! Anyone in the greater Boston area should consider coming by to this 38th (!) edition of the Boston Code CAmp (sic, as I like that the capital "A" looks like a tent). Free. Sat Mar 29. #boscc
Are your favorite scalability patterns listed?
Ouch - didn't think of that. :-(
But a friendly "welcome" still applies. :-)
Microsoft Edge just informed me that because it "contains malware" the extension "SearchGPT - ChatGPT for Chrome" is now blocked.
Congrats! See you at the Summit!
Microsoft Disability Scholarship are now open for applications. Deadline is March 13, 2025. Get the details:
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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.
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