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Bob German shared thisI found this video extremely helpful in demystifying neutral nets and AI models. In it, Dave Plummer trains a tiny, ~1,000 parameter model on a vintage PDP-11. It really helps make modern AI distinguishable from magic. It's especially near to my heart because I did a fair bit of PDP-11 assembly programming in college. Thanks Dave! https://lnkd.in/ekD9dV8uEXPOSED: The Dirty Little Secret of AI (On a 1979 PDP-11)EXPOSED: The Dirty Little Secret of AI (On a 1979 PDP-11)
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Bob German reposted thisBob German reposted thisI just took the State of AI 2026 survey. To be clear this is very much a developer survey but I’m still going to be interested in the results. If you have a minute, and consider yourself a developer, I’d encourage you to check it out! https://lnkd.in/ekFdrQrR
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Bob German reposted thisBob German reposted thisAI tip: If one human tells you they used AI to produce software equivalent to the output of 100 humans in one week you can be sure it is either brand-new garbage or that it is a copy of something else that was already well-defined and the work was a translation. A lot of people are seeing folks doing these kinds of translations and coming to the wrong conclusions. Is it AI assisted software development? Yes, absolutely. However, in real life, system rewrites to a new platform/language don't happen all that often and it is not in any way the same work as building a new system. It doesn't matter how many agents you have. The details *must* come from somewhere.
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Bob German reposted thisBob German reposted thisBUILD YOUR OWN AGENTS: MICROSOFT AGENT FRAMEWORK DEV DAY Join us for an all-day event focused on building AI agents and frameworks. This session is part of NH AI Week and is designed for developers looking to get hands-on with the latest Microsoft Agent Framework. Event Details When: April 17, 2024 Where: Akumina, Nashua, NH Organizers: Boston Azure AI and Nashua Cloud .NET User Group RSVP Secure your spot here: https://lnkd.in/em2CvMCn Organized by Bill Wilder & Jason Haley (Boston Azure AI) Udaiappa Ramachandran (Nashua Cloud .NET User Group) #AI #MicrosoftAgentFramework #DevDay #NHAIWeek #SoftwareDevelopment #NashuaTech #BostonAzureAI #Akumina
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Bob German shared thisOnly in Boston- a room full of Lobsters watching Richard Crane of MILL5 talk about OpenClaw and his new Lobster Pound at Boston Code Camp ! 🦞🦞🦞
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Bob German shared thisDemos are ready for my talk at Boston Code Camp next week on Saturday March 28 in Burlington, MA! I'll show you how to run AI models on everything from a Raspberry Pi to a 128GB workstation, how to run Claude Code and Github Copilot locally and unmetered, how to access AI models from code and write a chat agent which calls APIs and MCP services. Register now at https://lnkd.in/eePVQ5jZ I hope to see you there!
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Bob German reposted thisBob German reposted thisHope to see you Saturday March 28th at Boston Code Camp 40 in Burlington, Mass! #boscc https://lnkd.in/ei374xaR
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Bob German reposted thisHey EVERYONE!! Call for Speakers is open for CollabDays New England 2026, happening in Burlington, MA on Oct 16, 2026. Come join us!! Psst: Call for Sponsors is also open and sponsorships are going quick this year. If you're interested in being a sponsor please reach out, all the details are 👇Bob German reposted this🎉 📢 CollabDays New England 2026 Call for Speakers is open. Please submit your session to join us as a speaker at this year's CollabDays New England on October 16, 2026. The call for speakers is open until May 18, 2026. We'll try and get selections made and speakers notified by early June. https://cdne.link/CfS If you're interested in more the Call for Sponsors is also open, you can get more information here and spots are going quickly. https://lnkd.in/enNcM-Fc We'll be increasing the number of tickets for this year's event by 100 due to popular demand so this should end up being our biggest event yet. Attendee registration will open in August. Sign up for our newletter or follow us here to keep up to date. https://lnkd.in/evHjUcBt Hope to see you there!
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Bob German reposted thisBob German reposted thisI have been vibe coding far too many MCP servers and recently got hooked with building MCP apps (cos I love a good UI) and this one actually made me stop and go "wait, that just worked?" Hooked it up to a full HR consulting workflow - Trey Reseach. Bob German you might like it, being the father of Trey Research 😁 You ask for the dashboard, it shows up. You spot someone with the right skills, tell it to assign them to a project at a specific rate, add a cert to their profile done. Three tool calls, few seconds all done ✅. The part that got me is how natural it feels. So this project works as connectors for both Claude and ChatGPT. So tell me, What MCP app are you building?
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Bob German reacted on thisBob German reacted on thisToday we ran the Copilot Developer Camp at Microsoft Netherlands in Amsterdam – and once again, it was a very good day. Sessions by Albert-Jan Schot Kamal S. , Jos Verlinde plus Knut Relbe-Moe and me, followed by lots of hands-on work. Six super engaged groups jumped into real-life scenarios and delivered strong, practical agent solutions. Great energy in the room, lots of questions, lots of learning, and very open exchanges. Huge thanks to everyone who joined and contributed. And once again, big thanks to q.beyond AG and Vivicta for sending us out to this events and the ongoing support of our community work – this wouldn’t happen without Micrrosoft partners like you Next stop: tomorrow at Microsoft Italy in Rome, together with Dona Sarkar Matteo Pagani and Marco Caruso .
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Bob German liked thisBob German liked thisYesterday we stopped at Microsoft Italy in Rome for the next Copilot Devloper bootcamp. Together with Dona Sarkar , Matteo Pagani , Marco Caruso , Kamal S. plus Knut Relbe-Moe and me, we spent the day working on Copilot, agents, and real-life scenarios. This time we had 13 groups — a lot of energy, a lot of ideas, and really strong discussions throughout the day. Different perspectives, different challenges, but the same motivation to build things that actually help in day-to-day work. Huge thanks to everyone who joined and actively contributed — the engagement made a real difference. And once again, thank you to q.beyond AG , Vivicta and Microsoft for continuously supporting our community work across countries and communities. Now on my way back home to Hamburg, a bit tired — but happy What a great run: Munich → Amsterdam → Rome. See you soon …
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Bob German liked thisBob German liked thisAfter a long time at Microsoft, I've decided to try something new. There are way too many people to thank from Microsoft, both still there and moved on to other places, for their friendship, mentorship and sponsorship over the years. I don't want to miss anyone so won't try to name all of you here but know that I am thankful for all your help through the years. Plus, many Microsoft customers and partners helped me throughout my career by providing feedback, ideas and being the voice for my products to other customers/partners, the press and analysts. Thank you! At Microsoft, I was lucky to have the opportunity to help build, sell, market and engineer some of Microsoft's most well known products and services from when they were unknowns to now being the leader in their categories. For my change, I'm moving to Life360, the leader in family safety apps, to expand their very valuable product to international markets. This is a good opportunity for me to take what Microsoft taught me and apply it to Life360: multiple disciplines, how to scale and customize marketing and products into new markets and how to drive short term results that accrue to a long term strategy. Plus, I have been a customer of Life360 for years so I immediately saw the value the product provides and want to help expand that value to even more customers. It will be an exciting journey and I'm looking forward to diving in and driving our international expansion. If you haven't tried Life360, download it today from the app stores. I would love all your feedback both now and in the future to make sure we build the best product possible! Life360
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Bob German reacted on thisBob German reacted on thisCopilot Developer Camp – Rome ✨ Today, in my hometown Rome, we truly experienced a lot of innovation at the Copilot Developer Camp. It was a great pleasure to be among the speakers and to share my experience by showcasing MCP and Work IQ in Copilot Studio, engaging with a very attentive and curious community. 🎤 The event format was also fantastic: the morning focused on content and use cases, followed by an afternoon hackathon on building agents, where energy, creativity, and collaboration really made the difference. 🤝 Above all, it was a real pleasure to share this experience with an amazing team: Kamal S. Dona Sarkar Martin Rövekamp Knut Relbe-Moe Matteo Pagani Matteo Lenzo Events like these remind us why we love what we do: technology, people, and real impact. See you next time! 🚀 #Copilot #CopilotStudio #MCP #WorkIQ #DeveloperCamp #AI #Agents #Community #Rome
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Bob German liked thisBob German liked this👉84% of the world has never touched AI. Not once. Not even a free chatbot. 16% have typed something into ChatGPT and called it a day. 0.3% are paying $20 a month and feel advanced. 0.04% are running code. And then there’s you. You’re building agents at 2am. Running local models. Stacking workflows nobody has a name for yet. Compounding an advantage most people don’t even know exists. The people laughing at Mac Mini buyers and home GPU nerds? They’re the same people who laughed at domain squatters in 1997. This isn’t early adoption. This is infrastructure. Every serious technology in history had a window, a moment before the crowd arrived, where a small group built the rails everyone else eventually ran on. That window is open right now. The gap isn’t closing. It’s accelerating. Lock in. 👊👊👊
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Bob German liked thisBob German liked thisThe scariest place in a career is not failure. It’s autopilot. You wake up. You go to work. You solve problems. You attend meetings. You deliver. You smile. You go home. You repeat. From the outside, everything looks fine. Stable career. Good salary. Responsible adult life. But inside, something feels… empty. Not dramatic. Not terrible. Just empty. You stop feeling excited. You stop feeling proud. You stop feeling curious. You stop feeling anything, really. You are there. Technically present. But it feels like watching your own life from behind glass. Many high performers don’t burn out because they are incapable. They burn out because they can operate on autopilot for years. They can perform without feeling. Deliver without meaning. Continue without questioning. Until one day, a very uncomfortable question appears: If I continue like this for another 10 years… Will I be happy I did? That question changes everything.
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Bob German liked thisBob German liked thisGreat sessions, practical demos, and a clear vision of how Copilot and AI‑powered agents are reshaping the way we build solutions. But what made the day even better was the opportunity to catch up with local Avanade colleagues — exchanging ideas, sharing experiences, and reconnecting with the community that makes innovation feel real and human. Excited to bring all this back into my work. #Avanade #CopilotDevCamp #Microsoft365 #AIInnovation #DeveloperCommunity #RomeTech
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Bob German liked thisBob German liked this💡 What if your Copilot agent could securely plug into any external system using a standard contract? Fiza Musthafa breaks down the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and shows how to build declarative agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot using the M365 Agents Toolkit. From MCP servers and tool discovery to one-click provisioning in VS Code, this session makes extensibility practical and approachable. 📺 Watch now → https://lnkd.in/d2KMXM2G #Copilot #M365 #Agents #Toolkit #MCP
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SharePoint 2010 Development with Silverlight
Addison Wesley
This book is for any .NET developer who wants to learn how to build rich solutions using SharePoint and Silverlight.
Using Silverlight and SharePoint together, developers can create state-of-the-art applications that utilize Silverlight’s outstanding user experience, and fully leverage the vast collections of business data already stored in corporate SharePoint deployments. It's also fun; check it out!Other authors -
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