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My Comparative Review of Microsoft Copilot for Android

Microsoft recently released a new app for Android users -- Copilot for Android. Being a regular user of ChatGPT for iOS and Bing with GPT for iOS, I was anxious to get my hands on Microsoft's Android offering. Here are my thoughts!

Creating an Amazon S3 Shortcut in a Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse

Shortcuts allow Fabric users to access data resources in other public clouds as if they were stored in the data lake, making it easier for Lakehouse users to access external data sources. This post walks through the process to connect an S3 bucket to a Fabric Lakehouse.

Accessing Azure Key Vault Secrets from Fabric Notebooks

When creating solutions in Microsoft Fabric, it's often necessary to access services from external systems. This post demonstrates how to create an Azure Key Vault, store secrets in the vault, and then use them within Notebooks.

How to Create a Google Gemini Chatbot in 20 lines of Code

Last week Google shipped the first version of its Gemini large language model and made APIs available to developers. In this post we'll build a fully functional Gemini Chatbot using Streamlit!

My process for preparing to take Microsoft Certification Exams

I've passed 19 Microsoft certification exams over the years. Here's my process for preparing for exams and passing stress-free on the first try.

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