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A fun walk down memory lane — I just rediscovered the book that first taught me how to program a computer, way back when I was just 10...

A fun walk down memory lane — I just rediscovered the book that first taught me how to program a computer, way back when I was just 10 years old!

In 1980, my father brought home a Sharp MZ 80K computer. I was fascinated and spent hours poring over the BASIC programming manual, not just for the code, but also for its quirky, whimsical cartoons.

So strange to read that book again today. And it just shows how effective a cartoon can be for learning 😊

Every Monday I'm at the Rabobank in #Utrecht training a team of data and #AI engineers. The topic for this week is #PowerBI. The...

Every Monday I'm at the Rabobank in #Utrecht training a team of data and #AI engineers.

The topic for this week is #PowerBI. The students will finalize their data analysis architecture by building CO2 emission dashboards in PowerBI and linking them to their #Lakehouse.

This is what modern pair programming looks like. In the video, I'm working with an #AI agent to build a new certification practice quiz...

This is what modern pair programming looks like. In the video, I'm working with an #AI agent to build a new certification practice quiz for my students.

In the panel on the right you can see the agent working autonomously, converting quiz questions into markdown, doing online research and finding good references for each topic.

It took about 20 minutes to process 25 quiz questions, this would normally take me a full day to complete. AI is definitely a force multiplier for senior developers.

Pictures from last week's Microsoft (@dotnet) #Azure #Databricks training for the city council of #Amsterdam. We're in the council...

Pictures from last week's Microsoft (@dotnet) #Azure #Databricks training for the city council of #Amsterdam. We're in the council chamber of the Tuinstadhuis.

Amazing location, I love what they did with the four screens in the middle of the room!

Check this out, the web analytics company @Matomo has written a business case about my training academy:...

Check this out, the web analytics company @Matomo has written a business case about my training academy: https://matomo.org/case-studies/mdft-academy/

I've been using Matomo as my web analytics platform for a while. It has now become my tool of choice, because it shows me everything I need to know about my visitor traffic and it's super easy to configure the software to be compliant with the very strict #EU #GDPR legislation.

Today I wrapped up my #Databricks training for KVL in #Rotterdam.I was happy to discover that the KVL office is in the iconic Van Nelle...

Today I wrapped up my #Databricks training for KVL in #Rotterdam.

I was happy to discover that the KVL office is in the iconic Van Nelle building in Rotterdam, a monumental factory built in 1920! This was the first factory built entirely out of concrete, and a lot of the original equipment (heating boilers, power generators) is still present.

It felt like giving a training in a museum 😊

It's that time of the year again! My #Azure data students are graduating at the #Rabobank in Utrecht and presenting their final...

It's that time of the year again! My #Azure data students are graduating at the #Rabobank in Utrecht and presenting their final projects.

Highlights of the class of '24 are:

- an innovative technique to use an #LLM to categorize financial transactions
- a system to accurately calculate how much CO2 the Rabobank private datacenter is producing
- a cool #DevOps pipeline to deploy Synapse Analytics into the Rabobank cloud environment