Jason Haley

Ramblings from an Independent Consultant

Techbash 2024

This week I presented at the TechBash conference in Pocono Manor, PA. All the resources for the conference are available on the TechBash GitHub repo. Below are links to my presentations specifically. It was great to see companies sending their employees to conferences again. This was my first time at TechBash, and I finally got to meet Alvin Ashcraft in person (the Morning Dew). I also met a bunch of people from the Philly area and around Pennsylvania, but there were attendees from all over-even a couple of guys from Panama!

Posted by Jason on Friday, September 27, 2024

eShopSupport Series: Evaluator Project

This is the third part of the eShopSupport Series which covers the details of the eShopSupport GitHub repository. Evaluator Project The Evaluator project is a console application used to evaluate the chat portion of the application provided by the AssistantApi in the Backend project. The Evaluator application uses the questions in the evalquestions.json file to test the assistant API and scores the results it returns against the answers in that JSON file.

Posted by Jason on Friday, September 20, 2024

eShopSupport Series: DataIngestor Project

This is the second part of the eShopSupport Series which covers the details of the eShopSupport GitHub repository. DataIngestor Project The DataIngestor is a console application that will process the data files created by the DataGenerator - it does not ingest the data into any of the databases. I mentioned in the last entry about the DataGenerator that you didn’t need to use the DataGenerator because there are two sets of generated files provided in the github repo: dev and test.

Posted by Jason on Thursday, September 5, 2024

eShopSupport Series: DataGenerator Project

This is the first part of my eShopSupport Series which looks into the details of the eShopSupport GitHub repository. DataGenerator Project The DataGenerator is a console application that will generate multiple types of seed data files for loading into the application or to use when evaluating the question answering functionality. However, you don’t have to use the DataGenerator - there are two sets of generated files provided in the github repo: dev and test.

Posted by Jason on Monday, September 2, 2024

Virtual Boston Azure August 2024

Last night I spoke at the Virtual Boston Azure meetup. The talk was about the Azure Developer CLI and geared towards developers. The recording of the session can be found on the Boston Azure YouTube channel. Talk: What is the Azure Dev CLI (AZD) and How Can You Use It? The presentation pdf can be downloaded here. The resource slides: I added this slide after the presentation with links I mentioned after the recording was stopped:

Posted by Jason on Monday, August 26, 2024

eShopSupport Series

Announcing: The eShopSupport Series In case you missed this week’s .NET Conf Focus on AI you can find all the videos on the dotnet YouTube channel. The one I want to point out here is: Better Together: .NET Aspire and Semantic Kernel with Steve Sanderson and Matthew Bolanos. Steve’s portion of the talk is a distilled version of his NDC talk earlier this year: How to add genuinely useful AI to your webapp (not just chatbots) where he introduced the eShopSupport project.

Posted by Jason on Friday, August 23, 2024

Study Notes: Graph RAG - Property Graph RAG (The Projects)

Last week I wrote about the notebook I created when I was working out the flow of the property graph RAG implementation. In this entry I will go through the two projects I created to provide some reusable code as well as allow for better experimentation: Related posts: Study Notes: Graph RAG - Property Graph RAG Study Notes: Graph RAG - Property Graph RAG (The Notebook) NOTE: In order to get the most out of this blog post, you should first read the related two posts.

Posted by Jason on Friday, August 16, 2024

Wisconsin .NET User Group

Last Thursday night I spoke at the Wisconsin .NET User Group near Milwaukee, WI. I was nice to meet so many .NET developers interested in RAG and AI. To carry on the tradition from my Memphis talk, I gave the presentation a local look using images related to Milwaukee generated from Bing/create. Talk: Getting Started with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) The presentation pdf can be downloaded here. One of my demos failed to deploy before the talk, but I don’t think it was missed due to having so many good questions.

Posted by Jason on Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Study Notes: Graph RAG - Property Graph RAG (The Notebook)

Monday I posted my notes on this last month’s study topic of property graph RAG, which has the general information I’ve collected. In this entry I want to go through some code I created in a polyglot notebook (ie. a notebook that has C# code instead of python), when I was working through the steps needed for a property graph RAG application. Related posts: Study Notes: Graph RAG - Property Graph RAG Study Notes: Graph RAG - Property Graph RAG (The Projects) Where To Get The Code The code for this entry is in my Github repo semantic-kernel-getting-started under the notebooks folder:

Posted by Jason on Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Study Notes: Graph RAG - Property Graph RAG

This past month I’ve been focusing on Graph RAG. This entry is an attempt to capture some lessons learned and a place to itemize all the resources I’ve found useful. Related posts: Study Notes: Graph RAG - Property Graph RAG (The Notebook) Study Notes: Graph RAG - Property Graph RAG (The Projects) NOTE: My approach to this topic was to find a way to improve a typical RAG implementation that only uses vector similarity searching.

Posted by Jason on Monday, August 5, 2024

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Jason is an experienced developer and solutions architect focused on helping companies provide real business value with custom software development using the Microsoft stack of technologies. This includes C#, .NET, Azure and AI services. In 2024, Jason was awarded a Microsoft MVP in AI - highlighting his latest focus on AI and specifically Generative AI technologies in real world business applications. The prior seven years, he was a Microsoft Azure MVP.

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