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Mitchel Sellers is the Founder, CEO, and Director of Development for IowaComputerGurus (ICG). He has personally managed/developed hundreds of successful website and application projects, served as an adjunct technology instructor at Iowa colleges, and is a published author. His many accomplishments have been recognized elevating him to fifteen-time Microsoft MVP, ASP Insider, DNN MVP and Leader of the DNN Technology Group to name a few.
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Elevate User Generated Content with Azure AI
Getting started with AI can be difficult, this talk explores AI tooling that is specifically geared towards being helpful for those working with User Generated Content to help ensure that content is safe, accessible and inclusive. Azure AI tooling can help automate many common manual processes to help identify harmful content, or unhelpful content.
Presentation SlidesDeploying Secure Web Apps on Azure App Service (PaaS)
Managing and deploying web applications in Azure in a secure manner isn't an exact science, but there are many tools available to take some of the guess work out of the process. This talk explores a number of these features and configurations.
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Seeding Identity Users with ASP.NET Core
ASP.NET Identity is fantastic and provides a quick method for implementing user security in your applications, however, the process of inserting system defaults is not exactly the most straight forward and there are many ways to look at it, so lets explore some options.
Read Full ArticleDeploying .NET MAUI Blazor App to ProgramFiles'
The most common deployment process for Windows implementations of .NET MAUI Blazor applications is to utilize the automatic MSIX package creation. However, there are situations where you may need to deploy your application as a simple exe so you can deploy it to the location of your choice or as in my case so that I could pass parameters at launch to the application.
Read Full ArticleImproving .NET Development Experience with DevDrive
Windows 11 added the ability to set up a Dev Drive that is targeted for key developer workloads, and after soliciting some experience from others, I thought I would try it out myself. The results were impressive and immediate, and something I'm rolling out to our entire team. ...
Read Full ArticleLeveraging Chat GPT for Development: Balancing Privacy, Security, and Integrity
Over the past few years, AI model growth has been exponential, providing a robust collection of tools that can be utilized to streamline many operations that can benefit from machine learning operations. Although some may see AI models as simply "better search engines," there is a lot more that you can utilize ChatGPT or otherwise for; however, it requires careful consideration & planning. Let's explore how ChatGPT can help developers and how we can balance the privacy, security, and other aspects of day-to-day interactions. ...
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