The Wit and Ramblings of David Giard

GCAST 183: Using Copilot for M365 with Microsoft OneDrive Learn how to use Copilot for M365 to analyze, summarize, and compare files stored in your Microsoft OneDrive folders.

https://davidgiard.com/gcast-183-using-copilot-for-m365-with-microsoft-onedrive

EPISODE 818 Dean Schuster on UX Design Dean Schuster is an expert on User Experience (UX). He reviews some principles of good UX, some common UX mistakes developers make, and how to addres...

https://davidgiard.com/dean-schuster-on-ux-design

More than twenty years after introducing the world to Paddington Bear, Michael Bond published his eleventh story collection - "Paddington Takes the Test." Paddington lives with the Brown family i...

https://davidgiard.com/paddington-takes-the-test-by-michael-bond

Thirteen-year-old Theo was visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan when a terrorist bomb struck. The blast leveled a wing of the museum and killed Theo's mother. Before wandering fro...

https://davidgiard.com/the-goldfinch-by-donna-tartt

EPISODE 817 Justine Cocchi on Building Applications using Azure Cosmos DB Justine Cocchi is a PM on the Azure CosmosDB team. She describes CosmosDB, its features, how it handles reliabilit...

https://davidgiard.com/justine-cocchi-on-building-applications-using-azure-cosmos-db

How often do we see three legendary performers on the same bill? We saw precisely that Saturday evening at Tinley Park's Credit Union Amphitheatre. Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, and John Mellencamp ...

https://davidgiard.com/outlaw-music-festival-showcases-legends-nelson-dylan-and-mellencamp

Wallace Stegner's 1970 novel "Angle of Repose" tells a story within a story. After losing his leg, suffering through a debilitating disease, and divorcing his wife, retired history professor Ly...

https://davidgiard.com/angle-of-repose-by-wallace-stegner

GCAST 182: Using Azure AI Document Intelligence Studio Custom Classification Model The Custom Classification Model allows you to automatically determine a document type. This video shows h...

https://davidgiard.com/gcast-182-using-azure-ai-document-intelligence-studio-custom-classification-model

EPISODE 816 Bill Sempf on Trends in Application Security Bill Sempf describes the security issues of which we need to be vigilant when building software. Links: https://owasp.org/www-pro...

https://davidgiard.com/bill-sempf-on-trends-in-application-security

9/1 Today I am grateful to attend the Chicago Jazz Festival yesterday. 8/30 Today I am grateful that I survived a month in which I overcommitted. 8/29 Today I am grateful to mentor a succe...

https://davidgiard.com/august-2024-gratitudes