Java
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Using AI Agents To Supercharge RAG Applications
AI is not a buzzword. It’s not a phase that will go away after some time. It has become part and parcel of our day to day. In November 2024, three Google engineers, Julia Wiesinger, Patrick Marlow, and Vladimir Vuskovic, worked on a whitepaper titled “Agents”. The whitepaper first appeared on X (formerly Twitter) in the first week of January and AI developers have been busy discussing, digesting and even further expanding the discussions to include use cases that were…
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Death of Blackberry – A Case for Cross Platform Mobile App Development Paradigm
Just like the desktop and web development ecosystem, the mobile application development world is typified with different frameworks for writing native and non-native apps. For the iOS operating systems, there is very limited choice as Apple restricts developers to writing iPhone applications in Objective-C, C, C++ or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine. Apps must be originally written in one of these languages and may only use Documented APIs in a manner prescribed by Apple. Only code…
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Hacked, Then UnHacked
Been almost a year since I expressed my thoughts and feelings here. . .Not that I found a new space to express them but the will and time to write just hasn’t been there, until four days ago when I was buzzed on YM by an old friend, a staff at Standards Organisation of Nigeria. For those who were close to me back home in Nigeria, they knew I developed several IT solutions for the nation’s apex Standards body –…
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Processing Long Forms in Servlets/JSP – An easy way out
After downloading and watching “Omo Ghetto” aka Ghetto Child (A nigerian home video), and listening and re-listening to a wonderful, soulful, inspiring sermon “Put your trust in Allah” by brother Belal Asaad (watch here – its just 7 minutes), I decided to write this post to round off the weekend. One of the modules of the EMIS (Education Management Information System) platform I am working on presently is a capacity assessment system that enables member states (countries) submit data on…
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So You Want To Be A Programmer. . .?
My first article for the Digital Natives Monthly Newsletter. . .!
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javax.imageio.ImageIO and JTDS JDBC Driver to the Rescue
A friend of mine back home in Nigeria, a VB developer hollered at me sometimes last month to ask how he can retrieve blob data containing images stored in a MS SQL database and save them to the local disk. The database contains over 6,000 records. I’m sure there is a way to achieve this in VB, apparently he does not know. . . I completed the task in minutes. . . It’s been a long time I worked with…
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GuiGenie – My Choice for Swing UI Design
Why I Choose GuiGenie For My Swing UI Design. . .Not that my opinion counts anywayz. . .lol
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Mark My Word
Playing with words. . .