How To|Oct 18, 2017

Understanding Microsoft Cognitive Services – Whitepaper

Microsoft Cognitive Services is a set of cloud-based intelligence APIs for building richer, smarter, and more sophisticated applications. In this whitepaper you will learn how to use Microsoft Cognitive Services to build smart apps that see, hear, speak, and understand – in any language and on any platform. Download Whitepaper
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How To|Oct 18, 2017

Intro to Angular 5 Webinar

This webinar will explore Angular 5 essentials of building components, templates, data binding, and handling events. If you are looking to jump start your Angular 5 development this webinar is for you. In this recorded Wintellect webinar you will learn: Brief overview of Angular 5 How to code an angular 5 application Angular CLI Modules…
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How To|Oct 11, 2017

Learn Python Using 5 of the Best Features Webinar

Learn Python Using the 5 Best Language Features In this Wintellect webinar presented by Michael kennedy, host of the TalkPython and PythonBytes podcasts, you will learn Python using 5 of the best features. Michael provided a live coding session showing Python examples for: Python lightning refresher Tuple assignment and unpacking Dictionaries for performance Generators Leverage inline methods…
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How To|Oct 10, 2017

Silverlight Migration Strategy – Whitepaper

Browser plugin based application architectures, such as Silverlight, are rapidly losing market and mind share to open source and modern proprietary technology options. The shortcomings of plugin based architecture, in terms of security, performance, stability, and other considerations are driving current development to open standards supported by a wider variety of browsers and platforms. In…
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DevOps|Oct 10, 2017

Creating First-Run ARM Templates

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates are a great solution for creating a repeatable environment. Using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) makes  it easy to manage configurations, avoid dependency issues, and prevent server drift. Using IaC also means that you can recreate the environment as often as necessary to ensure it remains consistent. This gets complicated when…
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DevOps|Oct 5, 2017

Choosing Between Containers and Virtual Machines

Containers are simple, but harder to explain. Fundamentally, containers are a virtualization technology and they share a lot of common ground with virtual machines, however the biggest difference between the two is where the abstraction occurs. A VM hypervisor exposes a set of virtualized hardware components like a virtual network card, a virtual hard disk,…
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How To|Oct 2, 2017

Installing VSTS Build Agents on macOS

If you’re doing Xamarin, macOS (OS X), or iOS development work you’ve likely discovered that you need a way to automate the build of your code from Visual Studio Team Services. If you’re not familiar with setting up a private build agent macOS, the installation instructions provided by Microsoft can be a bit confusing. This…
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Tutorials|Oct 2, 2017

ASP.NET Core Development with Docker Webinar

Using Docker to Create a Testing & Deployment Target for ASP.NET Core apps ASP.NET Core offers the exciting ability to develop, test, and deploy on different platforms. In this 1-hour Wintellect webinar with Jason Bell, you will learn how to use Docker to create a consistent testing and deployment target for ASP.NET Core applications. You will…
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How To|Sep 28, 2017

Understanding Microsoft Power BI – Whitepaper

In this whitepaper you will learn how to transform your data into rich visuals and create stunning interactive reports without writing any code – and do it in any browser or on any device. More specifically: How can you collect data from multiple disparate sources into a single logical “view of the world”? How do…
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Mixed Reality|Sep 21, 2017

Getting Started with the New Acer Mixed Reality Headset

Introduction At Wintellect, we’ve been doing more and more work recently with Microsoft’s HoloLens device. But the HoloLens, at several thousand dollars, is an expensive proposition. Now Microsoft has broadened it’s strategy, rebranded it as “Windows Mixed Reality,” and has worked with hardware partners to come to market with an array of lower-priced headset options.…
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.NET|Sep 19, 2017

Build, Test, and Deploy .NET Apps with Docker

I had the privilege of presenting at the Atlanta Code Camp this year on .NET and Docker. This talk covered some of the low level components that would be used to build out a DevOps pipeline for .NET apps in Docker — everything from building an app, testing and app, and pushing that app through…
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Blogs|Sep 12, 2017

Visualizing Sales Data in Python with Matplotlib

In our last post we interpreted a data set with pandas to gain some insights from it. In this post, we will do the same, but instead of interpreting the raw data we will use visualizations to help us determine patterns in the data. But before we dive into the implementation, let’s review the benefits…
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