I’m working on a new series of tutorials to help Java developers understand how they can work with AI models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Dall-e, Deepseek, Granite, Llama3, and pretty much any other model out there. The stack of choice is LangChain4j and Quarkus, which are in my opinion the easiest tools to work […]
Getting started with Java and AI Read More »
I recently recorded a video to demonstrate how to work with AI models on our local machine using a new feature of Podman Desktop called “Podman AI Lab”, and Quarkus with LangChain4j. To make it even more interesting, I used an InstructLab model which is an interesting project to open not only the using of
Ahh… Covid-19. From thinking it was just another little outbreak in Asia to months long lockdowns and seeing friends and family succumb to this nasty little virus, it’s been a surreal year-and-a-half. Earlier this year we finally got some hope with the rollout of vaccines, and I personally was very eager to get vaccinated and
Using Camel Quarkus to send alerts on Telegram when web content changes Read More »
When a user reported that some of my code snippets didn’t work I noticed that the apostrophes in WordPress are automatically changed to curly quotes. That obviously breaks the code when php tries to parse it. I did some googling and found a simple solution: The “Unfancy Quotes” plugin which can be found here: http://www.semiologic.com/software/wp-tweaks/unfancy-quote/
Curly Quote / Apostrophe in WordPress Read More »
When outputting data from a database using left joins you often get redundant data in your output. Say you have a table with vendor information, and a second table containing the customers for each vendor. If you want to display a table with the vendor names and their customers, you’ll most likely want to use
Group TD (table data) without using rowspan when left joining in mySQL Read More »