Building Wondermade revealed a practical truth: AI becomes useful when it sits inside a clear business workflow. Here are the Azure building blocks, approval gates, development challenges and evaluation questions behind that journey.
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I Built an AI Film Studio: What FrameForge Taught Me
I built FrameForge to turn one idea into a directed AI film. Here is the multi-model architecture, safety approach, quality gates and real cost story.
Welsh Azure User Group August 2024 Meet Up!
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG August 2024 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by yet another two awesome presenters. First up we had Deiter Gobeyn with a great talk around Triaging Email with Azure AI Language Services and Logic Apps. …
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Welsh Azure User Group January 2024 Meet Up!
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG January 2024 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by Nikos Delis to discuss the Azure Service Bus and then we took a look at the AZ-305 Azure Architect Exam updates with Elkhan Yusubov. Huge thank …
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Welsh Azure User Group December 2021 Meet Up! – A Festive Feast for the Soul
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG December 2021 meet up and we had another set of fantastic people join us to talk around some brilliant areas. Olivier Bloch showed us how IoT has been Simplified, then Mike Pfieffer came to talk us through how to Take Control of your career. …
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Automate Social Media Posts with Azure Logic Apps and an RSS Feed
Hey everyone, I just thought I would piece together a quick and simple way to add some automation to your social media presence using Logic Apps to post social media posts on a schedule from an RSS feed. As I work primarily in the world of Microsoft Azure, I thought I would use the Azure …
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Welsh Azure User Group November 2021 Meet Up!
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG November 2021 meet up and we had another two amazing speakers join us in Mark Allan to discuss Real World Azure Static Web Apps, and then David O-Brien showing us all around Building a Cloud Security SaaS Startup on Azure. AGENDA 6.30pm - Welcome …
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A Flight into IoT – Microsoft Tech Days Event
So over the past few weeks I have been working behind the scenes with a fantastic group of community folk and Microsoft for a Tech Days Event. The point is in order to realise an end to end IoT solution based on sending flight data from a small ESP32 microcontroller device running nanoFramework C# .Net …
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Jonnychipz – In Conversation with May Alharji
Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he is joined by Digital Analyst and self confessed #PowerAddict May Alharji (aka Agent 008). This episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with' will be released on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) and its a great episode that you can't miss! Join us at 6.30pm (BST) on Friday 30th July 2021 In …
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Transcribing Audio? Let’s take a quick look at the Ingestion Client for Azure Speech
Hey all, so in this article I am going to take a look at the new Ingestion Client for Azure Speech that was recently Introduced by the Azure Cognitive Services team at Microsoft. This new announcement enables developers to ingest audio files and get them transcribed by the Azure Speech Infrastructure. This article will take …
Welsh Azure User Group May Meet Up!
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG May meet up and we had 2 Amazing Lighting Talks as well as a feature Length talk which took us on a Virtual Tour of Azure Data Centres! (Unfortunately due to the sensitive nature of the imagery we were unable to record the DC …
Welsh Azure User Group April Meet Up!
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG April meet up and we had 3 Amazing Lighting Talks as well as a feature Length talk all about IoT Robot Arms and Azure! AGENDA6.30pm - Welcome and House Keeping6.45pm - Anirban Ganguly โ Kubernetes it's not that hard7.00pm - Vukaลกin Terziฤ โ Creating …
Creating a Custom Vision AI Model using CustomVision.ai
So we hear a lot about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning built into devices and applications. In this blog article I will walk through a simple example of how to utilise the CustomVision.ai website to create and train an AI model to recognise objects. This website is part of the Microsoft Cognitive Services features and …
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Welsh Azure User Group March Meet Up!
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG March Lightning Talks meet up and we had seven, yes seven amazing Community speakers join us for a plethora of talks in and around Azure! AGENDA6.30pm - Welcome and House Keeping6.45pm - Martyn Coupland - DevSecOps on Microsoft Azure7.00pm - Mert Yeter - Visual …
Welsh Azure User Group February Meet Up!
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG February meet up and we had two amazing in Johhn Savill and Scott Hanselman on to discuss Resiliancy in Azure and transitioning a legacy blog and web site into Azure using Containers and App Service Plans! AGENDA6.00pm - ย Welcome!6.15pm - ย Moving a …
Jonnychipz – In Conversation with Liam Gulliver
John is joined by DevOps consultant Liam Gulliver in this episode of 'In Conversation with...' where discussions around the perception of DevOps as well as navigating around the plethora of technologies to choose form in the dev and ops worlds! We cover a huge amount of ground in this talk but all centred around helping …
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Welsh Azure User Group January Meet Up!
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG January meet up and we had two stellar speakers in Christos Matskas and Graham Martin on to discuss Identity for Developers as well as Azure Synapse and Purview. AGENDA6.30pm - ย Welcome!6.45pm - ย Introduction to Identity for developersย Christos Matskas โ Senior PM …
Day[92/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Exams in the Bag!
Ok so again just a quick post here to really outline how fantastically happy I am to have been able to pass the AZ-204 Developing Solutions with Microsoft Azure Associate Exam. As part of my studies I used a number of resources to help me prepare, but the best things I utilised were to jump …
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Day[86/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Welsh Azure User Group December Meet Up! (A Very Merry DevOps with Abel and April!)
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow!!! Another superb event from awesome WAUG Organisers to Awesome Speakers to Awesome Attendees!!! It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG December A Very Merry DevOps Virtual Meetup and what a line up we had! AGENDA6.30pm - Welcome!6.45pm - Real World DevOps - Abel Wang …
Day[83/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Deploy and run a containerized web app with Azure App Service
In keeping with the containers theme I thought I would look into running through a few tutorials on how to deploy into a Web App Service a containerised Web Application. The following tutorial takes you from creating a containerised image with Docker and storing these in Azure Container Registry. From here we will configure Azure …
Day[72/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Azure Service Bus
A brief article today to have a quick run through of what Azure Service Bus is and why would you want to use it in your application. Microsoft Azure Service Bus is fundamentally a fully managed integration message broker. This service can aid in the configuration and creation of loosely coupled applications and services. This …
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Day[70/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Creating my First Logic App using VSCode
Logic Apps can of course be created directly in the Azure Portal, but I thought I would get my VS Code environment set up with the necessary plugins and configuration after seeing some cool demo's at the recent Welsh Azure User Group. I am keen to get as much configuration capability worked out and understood …
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Creating my First Python Azure Function using VSCode
In this blog post I will be utilising Visual Studio Code (VSCode) to create a Python function that responds to HTTP requests. I will aim to test the code locally and then deploy it into the Serverless environment of Azure Functions. This run through will cost a small amount in an Azure Subscription, so please …
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Day[67/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Welsh Azure User Group November Meet Up!
Not strictly today, it was more last night! But its definitely the focus of my Day 67 of Cloud!!! It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG November Virtual Meetup and what a line up we had! AGENDA6.30pm - ย Welcome and Intro6.45pm - ย Admiral BCP and the part WVD played …
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Day[50/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Microsoft Power Platform (PL-200) Continued.
In my previous post I outlined the 13 Learning Pathways on MS Learn that were aimed toward the PL-200 Power Platform Functional Consultant Exam which is currently in Beta. For me this is a curve ball of an opportunity to look into the Power Platform a little more. It is really interesting to see the …