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September 10, 2023

Combine AI Models & Custom Software with Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel

Adam Cogan AI, General AI, Copilot, Microsoft Semantic Kernel, orchestration, Semantic Kernel, Software Development 2 Comments

Discover Microsoft’s game-changing AI SDK, Semantic Kernel. Revolutionize your software with ease of deployment, LLM integration, rich documentation, and AI orchestration.

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August 14, 2023

Solving Business Puzzles with Tech: A Look at SSW Melbourne’s Brainstorming Day & Retreat

Adam Cogan AI, Azure, ChatGPT, General, GitHub, SSW Projects AI, Azure, Azure DevOps, Brainstorming, Collaboration, Copilots, Dynamics 365, Outlook, Retreat, Semantic Kernel, teamwork 0 Comments

Find out how to utilize the smart people in your company to reduce their pain and create new ideas

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July 17, 2023

Microsoft Fabric – Unifying your Data Analytics

Adam Cogan AI, Data Engineering AI, Copilot, Data, Data Engineering, Microsoft Fabric 0 Comments

Learn more about how you can use Microsoft Fabric to have an all-in-one data analytics solution

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June 19, 2023

NDC Oslo – Introducing the best of ChatGPT & Open AI API to the Vikings

Adam Cogan General autonomous agents, ChatGPT3, Microsoft Fabric, NDC, NDC Oslo, Open AI, Prompt Engineering 0 Comments

Introducing ChatGPT, and Open AI to Norway at NDC, and showing off the newly released Microsoft Fabric

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May 12, 2023

Unleash the Power of ChatGPT – SSW’s Ultimate Cheat Sheet

Adam Cogan AI, ChatGPT, General AI, ChatGPT, ChatGPT3, ChatGPT4 2 Comments

ChatGPT is a powerful tool that can help businesses and professionals in the tech industry automate tasks, improve communication, and generate valuable insights from data. See the SSW ChatGPT cheat sheet to help maximize AI interactions and spark new ideas. It highlights ways to use ChatGPT effectively, such as assigning specific roles, crafting an effective prompt, dissecting the anatomy of a prompt, and leveraging chained prompting.

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April 14, 2023

Introducing SSW’s Cultural Exchange

Adam Cogan Family, General, SSW China April Fools, china, Cultural Exchange, France, Multicultural Teams, Working overseas 0 Comments

Sometimes the best ideas can come from the most unexpected of places.  At SSW, we’re passionate about creating a culture of continuous learning and personal growth. That’s why I’m excited to announce our new Cultural Exchange Program, which will allow our employees to work and live in one of our international offices for 8 weeks.  […]

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March 9, 2023

Managing your Azure Costs – How to Avoid Ballooning Budgets

Adam Cogan Azure, General, SSW Rules Azure, Azure Cost, Azure monitoring, Azure Services, Azure Spend 1 Comment

Do you want to control your Azure Costs? Find out how to both monitor your spend, as well as avoiding unexpected spend blow outs

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February 28, 2023

5 Key Video Production Editing Terms (aka speak the lingo of a videographer)!

Adam Cogan General, SSW Rules, SSW TV SSW TV, Video, Video production, Video terminology, Video terms 0 Comments

Ready to level-up your video production? Get familiar with key editing terms like exposure, transitions & more with this guide.

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January 17, 2023

Adam’s 2022 – A Year in Review

Adam Cogan General 2022 Year in Review, Covid, Family, New Year, post-covid, SSW TV, year in review 0 Comments

2022 has been a breath of fresh air. Finally moving out of the shadow of COVID, life was better as we were able to meet in person again. Finally, we saw the return of our in-person events and awesome developer conferences. For me, 2022 was about reconnecting with people, building great software, and enjoying the […]

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December 21, 2022

GitHub Copilot – A developer’s friend or foe?

Adam Cogan GitHub ai code writer, Copilot, github 1 Comment

Tooling for development has come a long way in the past 20 years. First, we had IntelliSense, then we had Resharper… now we have GitHub Copilot. The next frontier has arrived in the form of an AI pair programmer. At the flick of a switch, you have a computer (well, a cloud full of computers) […]

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