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September 26th, 2024

Meetup Summary: AI-Powered Coding Tools: A Side-by-Side Look

August 21st, 2024

Spring Declarative Caching

July 26th, 2024

The Power Duo: Embeddings and RAG in Practice – Part 2: RAG

June 23rd, 2024

The Power Duo: Embeddings and RAG in Practice – Part 1: Embeddings

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September 26th, 2024

Meetup Summary: AI-Powered Coding Tools: A Side-by-Side Look

In September of 2024, at the headquarters of Solution Street, the NOVA Software Architecture Roundtable Meetup group held a meetup to discuss several AI-Powered coding tools. There were four presenters, each summarizing a coding tool and discussing aspects of the tool like functionality, security and privacy concerns, cost and IDE integration. Below are brief summaries […]

August 21st, 2024

Spring Declarative Caching

Introduction I had occasion at work recently to consider using Spring’s @Cacheable annotation. I searched the web for some hints on how to use it, but wasn’t satisfied with any of the results. Even my favorite source1 of bite-size Java code samples had examples that I felt were too simple. Using “lookup” methods as examples of places where you may […]

July 26th, 2024

The Power Duo: Embeddings and RAG in Practice – Part 2: RAG

Introduction In my previous blog article, The Power Duo: Embeddings and RAG in Practice – Part 1: Embeddings, I introduced the concept of AI embeddings and how they can be used to enable machine learning models to find similar objects. We explored the practical side of embeddings and learned that they can enable a host […]

June 23rd, 2024

The Power Duo: Embeddings and RAG in Practice – Part 1: Embeddings

Introduction A few weeks ago, Solution Street hosted an in-person AI/Machine Learning meetup which was very well attended and was overall a great event. One of the speakers, Ryan Gehl, gave a great introduction to the practical application of embeddings using OpenAI’s CLIP model. During this presentation, he demonstrated that by calculating embeddings for 30,000 […]

May 23rd, 2024

AI/ML Meetup Summary

Introduction In May of 2024, at the headquarters of Solution Street, the NOVA Software Architecture Roundtable Meetup group held an AI/ML focused meetup. Illuminating the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence and machine learning, this was the largest Meetup we’ve had since the pandemic, with over 40 individuals. Over the course of the evening, five distinct […]

April 25th, 2024

FlutterFlow Tutorial – Part 2

Introduction This is Part 2 (of 2) of my FlutterFlow tutorial. FlutterFlow is a no-code/low-code browser-based builder for developing native mobile applications. In Part 1, I introduced FlutterFlow and created a mobile app with the basics of authentication using Sign Up/Sign In page templates with a database connection to a Supabase database. In this final […]

March 26th, 2024

FlutterFlow Tutorial – Part 1

I often tend to research and write about no-code/low-code tools; tools that help me create software faster and easier. I’ve written about these sorts of tools several times (Budibase part 1 and Budibase part 2 and LoopBack). I’m going to do it again and talk about FlutterFlow in this article. Why? As a developer I […]

February 21st, 2024

Introduction to Modern AI 2024 Edition – Part 2

Introduction In Part one of this article we brought you up to speed on the latest terminology and tools around artificial intelligence and machine learning. We also talked about business problems that can be solved using these tools. Finally, we covered several of the popular tools today in this space. In Part two of this […]

January 29th, 2024

Introduction to Modern AI 2024 Edition – Part 1

It is hard to believe it has been almost six years since I wrote my last article on Artificial Intelligence (AI), titled Practical Artificial Intelligence. In that article I gave an overview of the state of AI and Machine Learning (ML) and some popular usage and tools at the time. Since then, things have gotten […]

December 17th, 2023

Primacy Bias

Imagine for a second that you are attending a very important lecture at school. As the teacher starts to speak, your attention is at its peak, you feel like you can absorb all the information and follow the topic. After a short while, your mind starts to wander and only when the lecture is drawing […]