AI Development with Kiro
Anyone who has been writing any kind of code in the last number of years has undoubtedly interacted with AI coding assistants to some extent or another. These coding assistants have been around for a
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.NET Developer working out of my basement, helping developers to move into the cloud.
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Basement Programmer is back... Kind of
If you have been following my articles for a while, you will notice that the Basement Programmer blog has been shockingly quiet lately... Many tech Blogs out there start with a bang, and then fizzle o
Updated Streaming Data Test Client
Envisioning the Test Client A few months ago I started playing around with Oracle Streams and .NET. I wanted to build a sample streaming solution. However like most developers I lacked having multiple devices that I could point at my solution to test...
Resource Principal Authentication with OCI Container Instances
OCI Instance Containers are the OCI way of saying “I have a Container… please run it for me…” The idea is that you don’t have to worry about the underlying resources. It’s serverless containers. Getting your container up and running is extremely simp...
Leveraging the AI in your database...
Yesterday I wrote a blog post called “Who put the AI in my Database?” The topic of that blog post was how you can leverage the AI capabilities that Oracle has built into your database to train and deploy models. Being able to train and deploy an AI m...
Who put the AI in my Database?
I’m not a mathematician; I can’t even spell mathematician without help from spell check… so needless to say I am not the person building AI models for a living and trying to calculate the standard deviation of an elliptical ark. That’s a thing, right...
Oracle AI World - Tuesday - Day 2
it’s the first official day for AI World. Launch day, and already I have seen a really exciting announcement. Multi-Cloud Universal Credits Every cloud provider has a means of training a commitment for spend with lower costs. For example AWS has Rese...
Oracle AI World - Day 1 - Monday
8:30am It’s another conference in Vegas, this time Oracle AI World 2025. Ai World is being held in the Venetian Conference Center. Monday is a pre-day. There are several day-long sessions available to attend, covering a variety of topics. OKE Deploy...
Secret Storage in OCI
Shhhh, it’s a secret… Secrets are an essential part of secure programming. I’ve been programming since the early 90s, and back then, secrets weren’t nearly as big a deal as they are today. Passwords would be hard-coded into applications… connection s...