Given the current climate on how much its costing to use Cloud Based LLM’s I thought I would give using a local LLM a try with VS Code I decided to use Ollama with the model qwen3.5:27b. Ollama allows you to run local models freely available online. You run these local models on your own…
Using Plan mode with GPT in VS Code
You may recall in my last blog article I put Google Antigravity code editor through its paces and I was pretty impressed with the results. I said I would do the same with Co-Pilot to compare them. Here are the results. Once again I used the same prompt: “Create me a Vue3 site for asking…
Quick look at Googles Antigravity AI Code Editor
I decided to give Googles Antigravity AI Code Editor a quick test. First appearances it looks like a reskinned version of VSCode. That’s not a bad thing, plenty of tools use VSCode as a base for their products and you also get the full extensions library from VSCode. The layout looks similar to how Co-Pilot…
Setting up a real phone number with Teams
Once again another blog article for my own benefit so I remember how I setup a real phone number on a Teams Business account. What you will needYou will need to purchase a Microsoft Standard Teams Phone calling plan. Type that into your MS 365 Admin centre and you will have a long list of…
Useful disk apps
Over more than 20 years I have been developing software (wow it does sound like a long time when I put it like that). There have been certain apps that have stood the test of time for how reliable and useful they have been through the years. Beyond CompareBy Scooter Software https://www.scootersoftware.com/I think I first…
Adding the current date time to App Fabric Data Pipeline imports
Another article to remind me how I did this for later. Basically I need to import data into Lakehouse from MongoDB however I also need to record when the data was imported by inserting an import datetime. On your Copy Data function under the Source tab go to Additional columns choose new and give your…
Migrating to Azure DNS from CPANEL
This little article is more for my own reference if I need it later, hopefully it will be helpful to others I’ve had to migrate from CPANEL to Azure DNS, partly because I needed to support CNAME flattening which is what Azure uses when you want to connect the apex domain to Front Door. Getting…
Copy Data Activity in Data Pipeline in App Fabric not overwriting data
Discovered an odd problem with the Copy Data activity in App Fabric not overwriting data and only showing old data. This happened around the 15th August 2024. It looks as though Microsoft changed how this works. Overwrite doesn’t actually overwrite anymore, it will only overwrite schema’s but enables users to make use of the new…
Microsoft Fabric using Data Pipelines with MongoDB to import into Lakehouse
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been having some rather frustrating experiences with Microsoft’s Data Pipelines which falls under the Data Factory part of Microsoft Fabric. How Microsoft names their products can also cause problems when looking for support. You’ll chance on the same conventions and naming being used in other Microsoft products which…
Running out of Cloud Storage?
Cast your mind bag to the heady days when Google first released GMAIL. It was an invite only service when it first launched and everyone wanted an invite. It sounded so cool that Google who had done almost everything right was now launching it own email service. What was even cooler, it came with a…