Google Gemini and AI Studio Launch

While it feels like just yesterday I first blogged about Google’s PaLM APIs and MakerSuite, it was actually over two months ago, and of course, GenAI offerings are iterating and improving at lightning speed. In the past week, Google has announced Gemini, their new generative AI model. Naturally, I was curious about the API aspect of this and took a quick look. MakerSuite rebranded as AI Studio # First off, the web UI (which I reviewed back in my first post) has been renamed to the generic and boring, but probably more enterprise and appropriate, AI Studio. Along with that, when creating new prompts, it will default to use Gemini models. (You can still select PaLM if you want.) Another change…... more →
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Using React JavaScript in Visual Studio 2015 (for Free!) – ADT Magazine (blog)

ADT Magazine (blog) Using React JavaScript in Visual Studio 2015 (for Free!)ADT Magazine (blog)As promised in February, Microsoft embraced the wildly popular React JavaScript library in Visual Studio 2015 by providing built-in support for its JSX syntax. So I took it for a spin. It works. Having been impressed by my introduction to React Native … JavaScript – Google News… more →
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Integrating JavaScript with TypeScript (and Backbone and Knockout) – Visual Studio Magazine

Integrating JavaScript with TypeScript (and Backbone and Knockout)Visual Studio MagazineIntegrating JavaScript with TypeScript (and Backbone and Knockout). Peter looks at how to call a JavaScript function from your TypeScript code and do it in a type-safe way. Along the way, he dramatically simplifies a Backbone application by integrating … JavaScript – Google News… more →
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