Bill Wilder    This post was inspired by my Making Agents Work talk at Boston Code Camp #40, inspired by my OTel demo snafu at the live event. Quoting from https...

Bill Wilder    I had the opportunity (28-Mar-2026) to present at the 40th running of Boston Code Camp. Thank you to the incredible pros running these events, twice...

Bill Wilder    I had the opportunity (16-Mar-2026) to present at Memphis AgentCamp. Thank you Doug Starnes for a great event The description, link to github repo,...

Bill Wilder    I had the opportunity (22-Nov-2025) to present at the 39th running of Boston Code Camp since started in 2003. Some links and notes and comments below...

Bill Wilder    I had the opportunity (15-Aug-2025) to talk to Azure Tech Group Bangladesh about how human language has become the new UI as part of their ML Summer...

Bill Wilder    Along with fellow panelists Jason Haley, Veronika Kolesnikova (the three of us run Boston Azure AI), and Udaiappa Ramachandran (he runs Nashua Cloud ...

Bill Wilder    Last night I had the pleasure of speaking to two simultaneous audiences: Nashua Cloud .NET & DevBoston community tech groups. The talk was on Model...

Bill Wilder    The organizers of the AI Community Conference AICO Boston event did an incredible job. The conference was first-rate and I really enjoyed engaging...

Bill Wilder    Earlier today I spoke at the Memphis edition of the Global AI Bootcamp 2025 hosted by the Memphis Technology User Groups. My talk was Human Language...

Bill Wilder    Earlier today I spoke at the Cleveland OH edition of the Global AI Bootcamp 2025 hosted by Sam Nasr of the Cleveland Azure group. My talk was Human...

Bill Wilder    29-Mar-2025 Today I attended and contributed a talk to the Boston Code Camp 38 (yes, impressively, the 38th edition of this event). I made the trip...

Bill Wilder    I was in the audience at the Microsoft PDC on Nov 3, 2008 where Windows Azure was unveiled on stage by Ray Ozzie in the conference’s opening keynote....

Bill Wilder    Last night I was guest speaker at the Boston .NET Architecture community group. I learned they are now 21-year-olds. That’s a long track record The...

Bill Wilder    Today I attended and spoke at the 37th Boston Code Camp. The rainy weather was just enough to maximize attendance. There was an incredibly energetic...

Bill Wilder    At Virtual Boston Azure tonight Jason Haley and I teamed up to talk about ways Gen AI can be integrated with your existing systems. In the case of...

Bill Wilder    Boston Azure held a virtual event to review highlights from Microsoft Build 2024.

Bill Wilder    Boston Azure held a virtual event to review highlights from Microsoft Build 2024.

Bill Wilder    I wrote some code demonstrating how to use Azure OpenAI to support the AI mini-workshop we ran for Virtual Boston Azure. I created versions in Python...

Bill Wilder    We ran a successful AI mini-workshop at Virtual Boston Azure. There was coding and learning about AI and the programmatically interacting with the...

Bill Wilder    23-Mar-2024 Always great to hang out with the greater Boston tech community. Today I attended and contributed a talk to Boston Code Camp 36 (the 36th...

Bill Wilder    24-Feb-2024 Had a great time hanging out with the Orlando tech community at their annual Code Camp. I made the trip with Maura (she gave a talk on...

Bill Wilder    My talk description: According to legend, programmers back in the stone age would write code without IntelliSense and refactoring tools. The next...

Bill Wilder    I gave two talks at this event the other one was on GitHub Copilot.) Always great to engage with the OG Code Camp crew at Boston Code Camp. My talk...

Bill Wilder    I gave two talks at this event the other one was on DORA.) Always great to engage with the OG Code Camp crew at Boston Code Camp. My talk...

Bill Wilder    08-Aug-2023 I gave an extended demo of GitHub Copilot at the Boston Azure AI event tonight. Most of the session was a demo, but I did also walk...

Bill Wilder    On 27-June-2023 at our first back-from-the-pandemic in-person regularly scheduled Boston Azure monthly meeting, the main event featured Juan Pablo...

Bill Wilder    13-May-2023 Veronika Kolesnikova, Jason Haley, and myself jointly hosted the Boston Azure edition of Global Azure Bootcamp. It was a sold out show...

Bill Wilder    Today at the 34th edition of Boston Code Camp (#boscc) I presented (in person yahoo ) my talk Exploring DORA Using data to drive better outcomes...

Bill Wilder    I had the opportunity to speak at the 2022 Granite State Code Camp in Manchester, NH. The last couple of years I was more focused on Security and...

Bill Wilder    Today I had the opportunity to speak at the Granite State Code Camp (#GSCC2021) in Manchester, NH. This was the first time I’ve given an in-person...

Bill Wilder    Tonight I had the opportunity to speak at #VirtualBostonAzure to talk about raising the visibility of security signals in your environment by turning...

Bill Wilder    Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak at the Granite State Code Camp (#gscc) in Burlington, MA. As part of my series of talks on Running Azure...

Bill Wilder    On 22-Oct-2019 I spoke at Boston Azure about network security and focused on some of the edges of using Azure DNS, and included some DNS subdomain...

Bill Wilder    Today I had the opportunity to speak at VT Code Camp #11 in Burlington, VT. As part of my series of talks on Running Azure Securely, my talk today...

Bill Wilder    Today I had the opportunity to speak at SQL Saturday #877 in Burlington, MA. As part of my series of talks on Running Azure Securely, my talk today...

Bill Wilder    On Tuesday July, 30, 2019 I had the opportunity to speak at North Boston Azure. The talk was part of a series on Running Azure Securely and was...

Bill Wilder    We had a great event at MIT on Saturday 27-April-2019 the Boston Azure edition of the Global Azure Bootcamp hosted at MIT. There were lots of great...

Bill Wilder    Ever try to figure out how to track who logged into your Azure SQL database? You checked all the usual ways you might handle that with a SQL Server...

Bill Wilder    At most recent Boston Azure meeting I give (what turns out to be&) the first part of a multi-part talk on Running Azure Securely. Even though I did...

Bill Wilder    At the 29th Boston Code Camp, I spoke about Running Securely on Azure. Thanks to all of you who waited patiently for the A V hookup challenges to be...

Bill Wilder    On Tuesday evening 27-Mar-2018 I had the pleasure of speaking to the Nashville Azure group about keeping workloads safe in the Azure cloud. Was a...

Bill Wilder    Spoke today to a small crowd of hardy soles who braved the snow to make it to SQL Saturday 694 Providence held at nearby Bryant University in...

Bill Wilder    We first looked at how we might solve a random StackOverflow question using Azure Logic Apps, Azure Function Apps, the nifty PhantomJsCloud.com...

Bill Wilder    This past weekend I participated in SQL Saturday BI Boston in Burlington, MA. I spoke about Azure SQL Database, explaining why Azure SQL Database is...

Bill Wilder    Tonight I spoke at the North Boston Azure group and covering serverless concepts by looking at Logic Apps, Function Apps, and a couple of powerful...

Bill Wilder    Tonight I was pleased to have the opportunity to demystify Azure Logic Apps & Functions for the Granite State SharePoint Users Group. Here is the...

Bill Wilder    Last night’s Boston Azure meetup featured two talks No App Left Behind by Kevin Brown of SoftNAS after an opening talk on Logic Apps by me. My slides...

Bill Wilder    Last night’s Boston Azure meeting featured Marija Strazdas from AlertLogic who spoke about the Shared Security Model for security in the cloud. I...

Bill Wilder    Today at PowerShell in Action I spoke twice about not going TOO far in your PowerShell when managing Azure resources. The point of the talks wasn’t...

Bill Wilder    Last night I spoke at the North Boston Azure cloud group, where the topic was Azure SQL Database - not just a cloud version of SQL Server. So much of...