Over the weekend I noticed Vagrant 2.2.7 had been released. It came out at the end of January, but I guess most of the time I just start a build and look at something else until it completes, so I didn’t see the glaringly obvious message telling me about the update. 🙂
I use Windows 10, macOS and Oracle Linux 7 (OL7) hosts, so I installed it on all three. Windows and macOS had no dramas. For the Linux host I had to uninstall 2.2.6, then install 2.2.7, as it didn’t want to do the upgrade. It doesn’t make a difference though.
Post upgrade, I’ve done a load of builds on all hosts, and not just Cloud Control 13.4 builds. 🙂 Everything has behaved fine. No problems with Vagrant 2.2.7 and VirtualBox 6.1.2.
First up was Penny Coventry with “Power Automate AKA Flow Introduction”. The session started with an overview of various “Power” products, before focusing on some of the Power Automate features. This included a demo of building an automation flow. I’ve seen Amy Simpson-Grange demonstrating UIPath and one of my colleagues Paul demonstrating LeapWorks, and as you would expect, there are a lot of similarities between these automation tools. I don’t know if I’ll get to do any of this, but I do find it interesting. I’ll probably wait for my colleague Natalie to learn it, then bug her to explain stuff to me, so I can act like I know what I’m doing. 🙂
After far too much pizza and a doughnut (diet starts tomorrow) it was time for Tom Gough with “Azure Machine Learning with Power BI”. The session started with an overview of some of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) services on Azure. The mention of data preparation and data cleansing was quite interesting, as people don’t really say a lot about this. You could be forgiven for thinking this piece just magically happens. There was a demo of using Power BI desktop to prepare some data containing user comments, connect to Cognitive Services and pull out some key phrases from the data, and presenting it in some custom visualisations. One of my colleagues has used this to do sentiment analysis on responses to a chat bot running in the Azure Bot Service. Pretty interesting stuff, and he tells me it’s very easy to get some basic examples working.
It seems every event comes with some more signs that this stuff is gradually creeping into our company. I’m not sure if I will be part of this world, but it’s certainly interesting to see.
Thanks to everyone who turned up to support the event, the speakers, and the sponsor Pure Technology Group. See you at the next event.
Cheers
Tim…
PS. Apologies to Richard Harrison, who had to endure me asking questions for ages, while he froze to death. Bring some masking tape or a restraining order the next time you come. 🙂
Today’s video takes a look at using Multitable Inserts, which allow an INSERT … SELECT to create rows in multiple destination tables. If you’ve not heard of them, don’t be surprised as they are really new, having only been introduced in Oracle 9i. 🙂
The stars of today’s video are a pitch-perfect choir made up of Debra Lilley, Scott Spendolini, Danny Bryant and Michael Rainey, who are collectively the hottest ticket in town. I have it on good authority they can be booked for weddings, bar mitzvahs and funerals. Incidentally, all four have made appearances in previous videos, which I think makes this their official comeback performance.
