Posts tagged "ai"

• Specialized Hardware Without an App Rewrite

  2026-08-24· ai-on-the-edge·Estimated reading time: 6 min read

  AI on the Edge Demo 6: registering a Tenstorrent or mock accelerator as an OpenAI-compatible gateway backend with capability discovery, health checks, fallback, and accelerator-preferred routing - no application rewrite.

• One App, Many Places to Run AI

  2026-07-20· ai-on-the-edge·Estimated reading time: 8 min read

  Demo 1 for AI on the Edge: my .NET gateway, OpenAI-compatible facade, backend registry, route explanations, target backends, and LocalOnly denial behavior.

• Can't access TrueNAS/FreeNAS over VPN

  2021-11-01· home-lab·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  Fix for TrueNAS or FreeNAS access over VPN by adding a static route when the VPN client CIDR is outside the storage server subnet.

• Home Lab - Keeping Costs Down

  2021-10-11· cloud-architecture·Estimated reading time: 16 min read

  Home lab cost guide focused on matching hardware to use cases, avoiding wasteful enterprise gear, and planning servers for media, storage, dev, and AI.

• TrueNAS Azure Sync for Proxmox

  2021-06-21· cloud-architecture·Estimated reading time: 9 min read

  Walkthrough for backing up Proxmox storage from TrueNAS NFS to Azure Blob Storage using Azure storage accounts, cloud credentials, and sync tasks.

• TrueNAS NFS for Proxmox

  2021-06-07· home-lab·Estimated reading time: 5 min read

  Guide to creating a TrueNAS Core NFS share for Proxmox, covering datasets, NFS service setup, share settings, and VM or container migration.

• PostgreSQL Historical Log by Table

  2020-06-22· ai-ml·Estimated reading time: 3 min read

  Guide to creating PostgreSQL historical logging per table by copying table structure, writing a trigger function, and logging old rows before updates.

• Using Cognitive Services: Custom Vision Service with Azure IoT Edge

  2020-02-25· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 11 min read

  Guide to running Cognitive Services Custom Vision with Azure IoT Edge module-to-module messaging, from model creation to Python module deployment.

• New Pluralsight Courses Released!

  2020-02-20· ai-ml·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  Pluralsight course release note covering Azure data cleaning for machine learning and Xamarin.Forms architecture for reusable application code.

• gRPC C++ and Self Signed Certificates

  2020-02-11· developer-tools·Estimated reading time: 3 min read

  Troubleshooting gRPC C++ TLS with self signed certificates, covering SSL handshake errors and GRPC_SSL client certificate settings for servers.

• New Pluralsight Course Released!

  2019-12-13· career-updates·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Pluralsight course announcement for Sourcing Data in Microsoft Azure, covering data types, Azure Data Catalog, Data Factory, and HDInsight.

• New Pluralsight Course Released!

  2019-12-05· ai-ml·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Announcement for a Pluralsight course on deploying and managing models in Microsoft Azure with Azure Machine Learning, Azure DevOps, and model lifecycle tools.

• Creating .proto definitions from existing types at runtime

  2019-11-12· ai-ml·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Technique for generating .proto files at runtime from EF Core database-first types using reflection, System.Emit, protobuf-net, and ProtoMember attributes.

• numpy/core/_multiarray_umath.cpython-35m-arm-linux-gnueabihf.so: undefined symbol: cblas_sgemm - Raspberry Pi

  2019-07-22· ai-ml·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Raspberry Pi fix for NumPy cblas_sgemm errors while running TensorFlow and Custom Vision models, covering cleanup and reinstall of python3-numpy.

• MVP Renewal

  2019-07-01· ai-ml·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Microsoft Azure MVP renewal note covering Azure Edge, Azure ML, Scry Unlimited, AI on the Edge speaking plans, and Atlanta community events.

• Multiple TensorFlow Graphs from Cognitive Services - Custom Vision Service

  2019-07-01· ai-ml·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Run several exported Custom Vision Service models in one Python application by calling tf.reset_default_graph after each loaded session is saved.

• Securing SSH in Azure

  2019-05-20· cloud-architecture·Estimated reading time: 4 min read

  Azure SSH hardening guide for Linux VMs, covering removal of Arcfour, CBC ciphers, weak MAC algorithms, and safer sshd_config options.

• New Pluralsight Course Released!

  2019-05-03· ai-ml·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Pluralsight course announcement for Azure Cognitive Services Speech to Text SDK, covering C#, customization, Azure Functions, and batch processing.

• Creating a Single Gateway, Multi-Region, VPN Architecture in Microsoft Azure

  2019-04-23· cloud-architecture·Estimated reading time: 9 min read

  Walkthrough for building a single gateway multi-region VPN architecture in Microsoft Azure, covering hub-spoke VNets, gateways, and address planning.

• Authoring for Pluralsight - Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services: Speech to Text SDK

  2019-03-15· ai-ml·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Course outline for Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services Speech to Text SDK, aimed at developers building AI solutions with REST APIs, JSON, and device SDKs.

• Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services: Text to Speech API - Published!

  2019-03-13· ai-ml·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  Pluralsight course announcement for Azure Cognitive Services Text to Speech API, covering voices, machine learning voices, and custom voices.

• Authoring for Pluralsight - Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services: Text to Speech API

  2019-01-29· ai-ml·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  Course preview for Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services Text to Speech API, covering REST, SDKs, custom voice fonts, and JavaScript, C#, Java, C++, Python.

• CodeMash 2019 - Alternative Device Interfaces and Machine Learning

  2018-10-15· ai-ml·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  CodeMash 2019 session preview on alternative device interfaces, covering voice commands, speech recognition, computer vision, and machine learning.

• Generate Protocol Buffers on build with CMake

  2018-08-24· developer-tools·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Guide to generating C++ Protocol Buffers during CMake builds using file globbing, execute_process, protoc, and generated pb files.

• DragonCon 2018 - Helpful Links

  2018-08-19· mobile-apps·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  Resource list for DragonCon 2018 covering emergency contacts, hotel and transit links, schedule tools, social channels, and unofficial guides.

• Elastic Search - "All shards failed" on pagination

  2018-07-30· developer-tools·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Fix the 'all shards failed' error when paging past 10000 Elasticsearch documents by raising max_result_window, and the heap cost of setting it too high.

• Atlanta Code Camp - Call for Speakers

  2018-07-18· cloud-architecture·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  The Atlanta Code Camp call for speakers is open, seeking talks on cloud computing, data engineering, data science, mobile computing, web development, DevOps, and more.

• WordPress iFrame using Azure

  2018-07-02· cloud-architecture·Estimated reading time: 4 min read

  Work around the WordPress limit on javascript by hosting the script on an Azure App Service site and embedding that page in the post as an iframe.

• Announcing - Atlanta Medical Hackathon

  2018-06-11· ai-ml·Estimated reading time: 3 min read

  Announcement for Atlanta Medical Hackathon at Georgia Tech, covering student teams, healthcare data transparency, imaging, and access challenges.

• Third Annual Internet of Things Startup Showcase

  2018-04-26· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Details for the Third Annual Internet of Things Startup Showcase at Atlanta Tech Park, with the open house, collaboration session, and pitch schedule.

• Azure Global Bootcamp Atlanta

  2018-03-28· cloud-architecture·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  The fourth annual Azure Global Bootcamp in Atlanta, including the Global Azure Bootcamp announcement snippet and the IoT track line up.

• Home Control Flex Major Release

  2018-03-27· mobile-apps·Estimated reading time: 3 min read

  Release notes for Home Control Flex, and how a navigation page rewrite, framework cleanup, and shared App.xaml resources fixed a crash prone app.

• CodeStock

  2018-03-26· mobile-apps·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  I'm proud to be presenting Alternative Device Interfaces and Machine Learning at CodeStock, covering voice commands, speech recognition, and computer vision.

• Storing Event Data in Elastic Search

  2018-03-19· cloud-architecture·Estimated reading time: 10 min read

  Take the Elasticsearch load off client devices by sending telemetry to Event Hubs, batching it in Stream Analytics, and indexing it from an Azure Function.

• Getting started with Elastic Search in Azure

  2018-03-05· developer-tools·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  Deploy an Elasticsearch cluster from the Azure Marketplace template with Kibana and an external load balancer, then connect to it with the NEST client.

• DevNet Create

  2018-02-22· mobile-apps·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  I'm proud to be presenting Alternative Device Interfaces and Machine Learning at DevNet Create, covering voice commands, speech recognition, and computer vision.

• Azure IoT Edge stuck restarting

  2018-01-22· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Recover an Azure IoT Edge runtime stuck reporting RESTARTING by stopping the edgeAgent container and running the iotedgectl setup script again.

• DevNexus 2018

  2018-01-08· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  I'm proud to be presenting Enable IoT with Edge Computing and Machine Learning at DevNexus 2018, covering edge computing, Azure, and machine learning.

• Creating an ASP.NET Core application for Raspberry Pi

  2018-01-01· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 3 min read

  Steps to build an ASP.NET Core app, publish it for linux-arm, install the .NET Core runtime on Raspbian, and serve the site from a Raspberry Pi.

• Create Azure Function to process IoT Hub file upload

  2017-11-27· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 3 min read

  Sync a large file off a device through Azure IoT Hub into blob storage, then merge it into an existing data set with a blob triggered Azure Function.

• Big IoT week in Atlanta

  2017-11-02· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Roundup of four Atlanta IoT events in one week: an Atlanta IoT meetup, a Microsoft Cloud IoT Hack, a Georgia Tech workshop, and an IoT.ATL meeting.