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Microsoft continues to take the technologies it developed for the Bing search engine and make them available as services that developers can use either for their own search tools, or to power features in apps. New Bing APIs The Bing...
Introduction In my last blog post, I introduced Microsoft Cognitive Services and highlighted the key areas (Vision, Speech, Knowledge, Search, and Language) and looked at some of the features and benefits each area has on offer. In this blog post,...
Visual Studio, both the full IDE and the Code programmer’s editor, are key pieces of the Windows development story, and Build is an important part of the packages’ story. While Connect(); is perhaps the main developer tools event, Build still...
Artificial intelligence has been advancing at such a pace recently it can be hard to keep up at times, it’s been a disruptive force and is powering innovative solutions and helping drive digital transformation programmes around the world. Microsoft and...
What is PaaS? Platform as a Service (PaaS) occupies the middle ground in the Cloud stack between Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). It’s the part of the stack that provides the developer tools and...
At the end of last month, we held our second Live Lab at Microsoft TVP. A hands-on workshop supported by technical experts from Grey Matter and Microsoft, we helped attendees get their projects up and running on Azure. Now that...
The Python Software Foundation and JetBrains conducted a Python® developer survey at the end of 2017 to find out the latest trends and get an insight into the Python development world of today. 9,500 Python developers from across the world...
One of the main topics at the Build 2018 conference was AI and machine learning – which rely on data. As well as the updates to the cognitive APIs and tools for building custom data models, Microsoft talked about new...
Microsoft’s Azure IoT platform is a key element of its cloud strategy, providing a link from your devices to the Azure compute and services platform. With it you can connect and manage thousands of devices, while taking advantage of cloud-scale...
Introduction In previous blog posts I’ve covered many technologies in the Bing Maps space such as the Distance Matrix and Truck Routing APIs, and in this blog post, we continue with this theme – in particular, a look at the...
HERE Technologies has documentation for the JavaScript API and includes many examples of self-contained common use cases. To enhance the developer experience, HERE displays the supportive code with each example, as shown below. While this is helpful for when a...
Businesses are increasingly looking for Cloud vendors to provide and manage not only the infrastructure needed for their IT but also the applications themselves. It is often quicker and less risky to subscribe to a proven Software as a Service...
Emphasizing something on a printed map is easy – take a marker and circle the location, draw an arrow or pull out your highlighter. However, how can we achieve this emphasis on a digital map? The basic tutorials show us...
We love to meet up regularly with our customers, and our February UK-wide DevOps workshops gave us the opportunity to meet many who are taking the steps towards modernising their application development and embracing software deployments that need scalability. The...
The supply chain is once again coming to the headlines in the tech world – this time not because of a breach in a supply chain of a multi-national company – but because the Ministry of Defence (MoD) is upping its cyber security standards within its own supply chain. ...
The addition of location services is an exciting and important component of many of today’s systems modernisation projects. Over the past few months, the Code Matters Spatial category has been focussing on Microsoft Bing Maps and we’ve been providing information...
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