Category / techniczne

As you could read in the post about NDepend – the Technical debt feature was I think the best what was new (to me) in NDepend 2017. I’ve decided to use it and write couple of posts how I use this feature to actually reducing it in the NetDevelopersPoland WebSite project. Paweł ŁukasikFounder of Octal […]

If you have ever written an application that’s a bit bigger than a standard Hello World and that will live a litter longer than just for showing it to your significant other – I bet you’ve experience the same. You try to make it clean. You try to make it perfect but in the end […]

Microsoft Cognitive Services & Bot Framework - video

If you prefer to watch that to read and you like Cognitive Services and Bot Framework here’s something for you. Paweł ŁukasikFounder of Octal Solutions a .NET software house. Passionate dev, blogger, occasionally speaker, one of the leaders of Wroc.NET user group. Microsoft MVP. Podcaster – Ostrapila.pl

Microsoft Cognitive Services - applications

Even the best technology is not worth much if there are no applications that uses it. The same goes with Microsoft Cognitive Services. Here is the list of few websites or apps that uses Cognitive Services. Let’s see if this technology is already getting adoption. Paweł ŁukasikFounder of Octal Solutions a .NET software house. Passionate […]

Making procedurally generated endless runner game

  When we started making Little Creeps – the 2D endless runner game on mobile – we were faced with the problem of creating an algorithm that is going to be the core of the game – creating unique path in realtime so we can play as long as we like without the feeling that […]

Microsoft Cognitive Services - Search API

The last leg of Microsoft Cognitive Services is Search API. Lets check what we can find in this part of the API that could extend our application with intelligence. Paweł ŁukasikFounder of Octal Solutions a .NET software house. Passionate dev, blogger, occasionally speaker, one of the leaders of Wroc.NET user group. Microsoft MVP. Podcaster – […]

Microsoft Cognitive Services - Knowledge API

Continuing on Microsoft Cognitive API. Today lets find out about Knowledge API. In this category we can find services like: Academic Knowledge, Entity Linking, Knowledge Exploration, QnA maker and Recommendation API. Lets have a closer look at each of them. Academic Knowledge This API allows you to search through academic papers and retrieve information from […]

We’ve already covered Vision and Speech API – now’s the turn for Language API. This part consists the most features that we could try. We can spell check with Bing, use Language Understanding Intelligence Service (LUIS) for understanding the commands from the users, or analyse the text with Linguistic Analytics API. What is also available […]

Microsoft Cognitive Services - Speech API

Apart from Vision API another interesting part of Cognitive Services is Speech API. Here we can use Bing Speech API to convert text to speech, custom speech API or Speaker Recognition API. Let’s look at the last one. Paweł ŁukasikFounder of Octal Solutions a .NET software house. Passionate dev, blogger, occasionally speaker, one of the leaders […]

Microsoft Cognitive Services - Vision API

Vision API allows us to get insights from images and videos. In this category we have services like: Computer Vision, Content Moderator as well as Emotion, Face and Video API. Computer Vision The most broad is Computer Vision. It allows to extract a set of features from images. We can get a general description of […]