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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.
One of my favorite parts about being involved in the software development community is speaking at events.
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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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Injecting Organization Knowledge Into GitHub Copilot Agents
With the recent preview release of GitHub CoPilot Agents, the importance of proper instructions for the agents is as important as it ever has been. But how do I effectively manage this when we have limits on the prompting depth and what items it has access to?
Read Full ArticleLimiting Risk With Open Source Consumption
I'm an avid supporter of Open Source software; I maintain multiple projects, contribute to others, and sponsor developers across numerous projects I use or care about. However, there has been a recent trend in license changes with open source software that create a unique and real risk to companies and development teams that could go unnoticed and result in a catastrophic impact on organizations. Let's explore how we select, integrate, and manage the usage of third-party solutions.
Read Full ArticleUpdating to .NET 9 Has Benefits! Performance!
There are many discussions regarding the cadence of upgrades and the burden of keeping up to date with the .NET releases, but that is all a topic for another day. Today, I want to take a moment and talk about the unsung heroes of constant updates: improved performance! ...
Read Full ArticleSeeding 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. ...
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