Tech Carpenter - Ahmad Najjar's Blog

Once again, I'm ready to be part of another SharePoint Saturday! This time, I'll be speaking at the 6th SharePoint Saturday in the UAE (United Arab Emirates) in the city of Dubai on 15th July. I'll be meeting with some usual faces from SPS Warsaw 2017, but also looking forward to meet new faces and hear their SharePoint stories... For SPS Dubai, I'll be throwing a session on  PowerApps & Microsoft Flow: Advanced Scenarios which will give a deep dive on PowerApps and Flow for building and using custom business apps that connect to your data and work across the web and mobile. An I'll also shed some light on the scenarios where the need to customize and develop extra features for workflows, in order to take workflows to the next level. This session demonstrates key advanced scenarios addressing the next level workflows using PowerApps and Flow, featuring Azure API Apps and Azure Functions. As usual, my session brand is fun slides and demos, demos, demo

The minute we hear the word machine learning, many thoughts rush into our minds, starting from high-tech robotics, sophisticated complex algorithms and ending by Sci-fi movies (of course!). Well, we might be partially right if the plan is to assemble a robot or reinvent an auto-pilot car, but this is no longer the case these days! In the recent years, Machine Learning is being widely used in business scenarios or – to be fair – it’s even becoming mainstream! Predictive machine learning modules and/or sentiments are being used in our day-to-day tools and utilities. For example, there are off-the-shelf SaaS sentiments to tell whether a tweet from a customer is a good feedback (happy customer) or a bad feedback (unhappy customer). Another example that we could find off-the-shelf is face recognition, which is a service we could feed with a couple of (face) photos of a person, and then feed a totally different photo – of the same person – other than the ones provided at the begin