Hosting static HTML and CSS in Azure Blob storage is pretty simple. Using the Storage Explorer it is as simple as drag-and-drop. But when you want to integrate this in your VSTS pipeline, content type issues arise. This tiny blog will explain how to identify and fix this problem. … [Read more...]
Text Analytics – Dutch Support
Recently, Microsoft added Dutch language support for the Text Analysis API within the Cognitive Services stack. In this blogpost I will show how to determine the sentiment of a newsfeed in Dutch. The importance of language support Most development articles are written in English. Most documentation is written in English. I'm Dutch and even I am blogging in English! With the rise of chatbots and other dialogue based UX apps, native language support becomes ever more important. Think of an … [Read more...]
Timestamps in the Azure IoT messaging flow
Timestamps are important for monitoring and testing the IoT messaging flow. In this blog you’ll find which timestamps are available when using Microsoft Azure IoT services. … [Read more...]
Emotion Recognition using WPF
A lot of examples of the Cognitive Services include UWP applications and samples. But sometimes you have to support older operating systems, that force you to fall back on techniques like WPF. The use of webcams in WPF is not included by default in the framework. In this blog I will explain how to implement the Emotion API and build a WPF application capturing your webcam. A sample of an application you can create shown in the following screenshot. This application shows the realtime … [Read more...]
Sogeti Microsoft Heroes Academy: HoloLens Slides
Had a great introduction session on "HoloLens: Augmented Reality in 2017" at the Sogeti Microsoft Heroes Academy no.5 (27-06-2017). Here are the slides. Sogeti Microsoft Heroes Academy AI 27062017 – HoloLens More questions about the Hololens & real value on AI? just reach out via Sogeti. … [Read more...]
Sogeti Microsoft Heroes Academy AI: Practical Artificial Intelligence slides
On June 27th Sogeti's Microsoft Businessline hosted another Heroes Academy, this time around the theme Artificial Intelligence. With 5 talks about the Spark of Life in IT, Hololens, Azure Cognitive Services, Practical Artificial Intelligence and Cortana, the evening was pretty much packed. Thanks to everyone attending the evening! Here are the Practical Artificial Intelligence slides. Keep an eye on the Sogeti Netherlands events page for future Heroes Academy events. … [Read more...]
Sogeti Microsoft Heroes Academy: Cortana slides
Had a fun session on Cortana at the Sogeti Microsoft Heroes Academy last night. Here are the slides. Sogeti Microsoft Heroes Academy AI 27062017 - Cortana … [Read more...]
Technical Introduction – Cognitive Services
Naar aanleiding van de presentatie op Microsoft Heroes Academy #5, thema: Artificial Intelligence in een notendop hierbij de sheets in PDF formaat van de sessie ‘Technische introductie Cognitive Services’ door Peter Rombouts. De sheets bevatten op de laatste pagina de links naar diverse gebruikte packages en tooling. … [Read more...]
SharePoint Virtual Summit
Last week, at Microsofts SharePoint Virtual Summit, Microsoft Corporate Vice President Jeff Teper unveiled the roadmap for SharePoint. Not the entire roadmap, off-cource. You'll need to be at Ignite 2017 to get that information :-) But at our Sogeti headquarters in Vianen, we invited our SharePoint specialists and some of our customers to watch the roadmap together. The keynote went into the Office 365 suite on a whole. Collaboration does not have a "one size fits all" solution. That's why … [Read more...]