Hi! Time flies, it is almost one year since I wrote my first blog post during that period, I have learned a lot, shared knowledge and got very encouraging feedback that helped me to continue blogging, thanks to everyone for your kind words! When I have chosen my blog name, I was following everyone’s advice to tie the blog name to my personal name and I decided to give some flavor by adding “cognitive” to…
Introduction Since the early 2000s, I started my software development journey as a hobbyist kid who used to develop small hacking programs using Visual Basic 6.0. I succeeded in writing a couple of programs that used to function correctly with extremely horrible code. It is a horrible code to the extent that when I plan to style a button in blue background color with bold text, I used to write the same code statement for…
Continuation! Now, here we are back again after reverting and discussing some topics around” Making your code smarter.” Today I will continue sharing some fantastic tools that I use in my daily life, which optimized my time, money, and effort. Did you read 10 must-have tools that will save your time, money, and effort – Part 1? Number Six: The Great Suspender Are you obsessed with having too many open browser tabs simultaneously? Do you…
Hello every, I am happy to announce that a previous blog I posted Software is eating the world – Part 1: Why you need to question your current career! is published in the leading software development community (with more than 1M audience! Don’t miss the opportunity to read again How Not To Get Eaten By Technology, the post is improved and polished even more 😉 And of course, subscribe in the mailing list to get…
Introduction: As I have discussed many times before, the AI services landscape is aggressively growing and developing. Microsoft, AWS, IBM, and Google are in a crazy race to roll-out the most attractive services to the market, it is going fast to the extent that I usually question my last month knowledge if I get asked for the recommendation! Last weeks, Microsoft had rolled out new services in their platform, which are: Immersive Reader, Personalizer, Form…
Last Wednesday, I had the pleasure to present Cloud AI at Stockholm Azure Meetup where I discussed the concept of Cloud AI, state of art and the business possibilities that can be achieved by utilizing it. The presentation started by comparing the classical machine learning with”Cloud AI or AI as a Service” approach and discussed the pros and cons of each. The audience were engaged and there have been many questions and inquiries, I am…
Here we start! Today we will continue with “Making Your Career SMARTER” part of the blog, where I would like to share with you a 10 tools that will dramatically improve and boost your productivity, security, and finances! We will split this topic into two blog posts, where I will share five tools in each one. The tips I will share today are useful for anyone regardless of their background even though I am using…
Introduction In the previous blog post, we introduced the newly launched anomaly detector service, discussed its use cases, weaknesses and strengths. Today, we will take our discussion deeper and inspect the API request/response model, parameters meaning and how can we have some control over the API. Using the API Similar to other cognitive services, anomaly detector relies on a RESTful API to provide its service. Since using RESTful APIs is straight forward for any regular…
Introduction Firstly, I would like to apologize that last April I blogged only two blog posts since it was a pretty hectic month for my beloved country where our people have overthrown a 30 years dictator. I was spending most of my time following news and expert’s analysis. Last month, we were talking about some things that will MAKE YOUR CAREER SMARTER (Software is Eating the World Part 1 & Part 2). Today we will…
The Software industry is frightening! Last week, I started Software is eating the world blog posts series where I shared my opinion and experiences around the current hastiness in the software market and analyzed the driving forces behind current trends. The post went really viral with 2.5K views in two days. However, I would like to continue this series by reviewing some courses which I believe are valuable to position yourself in the market and…
