microsoft Archives - Rich Stokoe

Announcing: Better .NET Templates

Posted on December 30, 2023December 30, 2023 by rich

The default .NET templates have become advertisements for new .NET features and are no longer fit for teams to use to build well-architected, maintainable solutions with good design patterns.

So I’ve started to build my own.

State of the AI Nation 3: Finally, the Microsoft Office We All Deserve, multi-modal, and CEO swaps at OpenAI

Posted on December 13, 2023December 13, 2023 by rich

It was a struggle to find any content for State of the AI Nation 3. Nothing has really happened in the space over the last few months….. Pahaha! Microsoft Let’s start with Microsoft. I’ve been unashamedly critical of Microsoft over the past few years, and frankly they’ve earned every scathing word. The multi-trillion-dollar company is […]

State of the AI Nation 2: Deep Unlearning

Posted on September 28, 2023September 28, 2023 by rich

There is a storm coming for artificial intelligence relating to the use of copyrighted materials for training. Just because something is “publicly accessible” doesn’t make it OK to use in deep learning model-training and it might be time for some deep-unlearning.

State of the AI Nation 1: Google I/O 2023 Recap

Posted on May 13, 2023July 11, 2023 by rich

On 4th May 2023, a leaked memo from a Google employee declared that the company “has no moats” when it comes to AI (artificial intelligence). A moat, in business strategy circles at least, means a competitive advantage that you can use to protect your business model. It means different things in castle design – in […]

Why Google Will Win the AI Wars

Posted on March 30, 2023July 11, 2023 by rich

In 2003, Michael Burry predicted that the US housing market would collapse in 2007. As we all now know, he was right…

Deconstructing the New Inner Loop for Single Page Applications (SPAs) in .NET 6

Posted on February 7, 2022July 11, 2023 by rich

Microsoft’s two major development platforms, .NET Framework and .NET Core, have converged in .NET 6, with major changes to .NET SPA web application development. You can hit F5 and be confident that everything just works, however, I couldn’t help spending some time digging into what’s going on under the hood… Forewarning: I’m going to ignore […]

aspnetcore.dll failed to load. The data is the error

Posted on July 8, 2016July 8, 2016 by rich

This morning, while trying to debug our big ol’ web project in Visual Studio 2015 I encountered a problem – it held me up for a while so I wanted to quickly blog about the solution in case it hits you too. When hitting F5 to start debugging, Chrome launched but then immediately Visual Studio […]

Windows Blue

Posted on March 27, 2013March 27, 2013 by rich

There has been much press this week about Microsoft’s new annual-update programme for its Windows operating system, purported to be called “Windows Blue”. This has been mostly driven by the leak of an early copy of Blue onto file sharing websites. WinSuperSite’s Paul Thurrott gives the best overview. As well as several new “Modern UI” […]