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I'm coming in hot with Microsoft Ignite 2025 session recommendations!

When I moved my blog from Wordpress to a template based on Next.js, I knew that I'd be have to pick up some maintenance tasks that I had previously delegated to the Wordpress platform.

Microsoft Build is one of the key events in my annual calendar, so I couldn't miss the chance to share the Build 2025 sessions I think developers won't want to miss.

Ignite is back for 2024, and I've taken the time to review the session catalog to pull out the gems for developers in ANZ.

I was recently invited to present at the Microsoft Reactor on what you should consider when taking your Generative AI apps from proof-of-concept to production.

Since 2021 the software development industry has increasingly been headed in a direction where AI-assisted software development is the norm.

If 2023 was the year of 'AI for the developer' at Microsoft Build, it's safe to say that 2024 continues that theme, though with more focus on practical delivery of secure, scalable solutions.

GitHub recently released their GitHub Copilot Metrics API in public beta which means it is now available for anyone who has licensed GitHub Copilot Business so they can report on usage and gain insights into the impact of Copilot adoption.

If you've been following me for a while you'll know I'm a huge fan of markdown, GitHub and simplifying the life of developers.

Appropriate data handling is an important part of any software system design.

Regardless of where your git repositories are hosted, there is always a need to have visbility over what's going on in them.

When you provide an open input prompt it's only a matter of time before someone with type or create something inappropriate.

As always, Ignite covers a lot of non-developer content, so there's not a huge amount of content to dig into, but I think I've found the developer gold in amongst the lot.

Publication of APIs, particularly for consumer applications, requires some next-level attention to protecting your service.

They say there's no place like home, so in this post I'm going to take a look at Microsoft's new home for developers on Windows - Dev Home!

In this post I introduce the ideas of design-time validation and unit testing for Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) developed using Bicep.

I've really been enjoying editing using just markdown, but I had one outstanding item I was missing - how to easily preview the blog as I go without needing to push to a preview on Vercel?

In this post I will cover some of the issues you might come across when deploying and configuring a private App Service Environment (ASE) and how to resolve them.

Trying to assign a Service Principal to an RBAC role in Azure and receiveing the error 'Principals of type Application cannot validly be used in role assignments.'?

I'm back with my list of the best developer sessions from Microsoft's annual developer conference - Build.

Everyone is looking for creative ways to use OpenAI's GPT models to boost their productivity.

Let's discuss how you can go about the introduction of generative AI services such as Copilot into your software development process.

I've been blogging for over ten years, and have mostly been happy using Wordpress.com.

On Wednesday, March 8, I spoke at the Sydney Serverless Meetup on how you can quickly build an Azure Function Extension and in what situations you should consider doing so.

I recently wrote a post on sending Azure retirement announcements via email using the Azure Communication Services Email capabilities.

Off the back of my recent post on building an Azure Logic Apps solution for cross-posting on social media I wanted to export what I'd quickly built and make an easily deployable asset in Azure using Bicep.

If you're reading this, then I have successfully implemented my plan to build a content cross-posting service using Azure Logic Apps!

I was recently at an event where I had a discussion with someone who mentioned they'd missed the news about the retirement of a feature in Azure that they were making use of in a solution.

For the first time in a couple of years, there is an in-person event for Ignite, though for our list here I'm only listing sessions you can attend from the comfort of your home.

You may be sitting there are wondering why are we doing an Azure Logic App to Power Automate Flow migration?

From Monday 15 August 2022 anyone can now try out Microsoft Dev Box through it entering public preview.

In this final part of this series of posts covering how to build your own air quality alerting system I will build out the alerting subsystem.

In this final part of this series of posts covering how to build your own air quality alerting system I will build out the alerting subsystem.

So we are back with another annual developer-focused Build for 2022.

Recently my solution for Meetup integration ceased working as Meetup decided to shift their API from REST to GraphQL without providing any advance notice.

Like any cloud platform, Microsoft Azure is always shipping new features and services regularly.

Microsoft continues to design and ship new form factors for its Surface range of devices.

Anyone who was living in Australia during the 2019/2020 summer can't help but remember the massive bushfires we had, and the impact they had on air quality.

I am currently working on an IoT gateway project and I thought I would use the new minimal APIs in .NET 6 to build the API for an IoT gateway.

I am currently working on an IoT gateway project and I thought I would use the new minimal APIs in .NET 6 to build the API for an IoT gateway.

I thought I would find the most intricate AWS example serverless app and use it as the basis for the demo migration to Azure to go along with this blog.

Here we are again - it's almost time for the annual Microsoft Ignite conference.

I set out to build a simple automated XBox Series X stock checker that will push an alert to me when stock shows up so that I can action it immediately regardless of where I am.

Voice assistants have become all the rage, and they provide a great way to access and consume information.

Recently I reflected on the amount of time it takes for me to prepare slides for a monthly meetup, and decided this probably wasn't a great use of my time which makes it the perfect candidate to automate!

any developers are interested in learning how to build and run software on cloud platforms, but are wary of the potential for hidden costs and bill shock.

It seems like only yesterday we were talking about session for Microsoft Ignite back in March... and here we are looking forward to what's coming up at Microsoft Build which is online...

In this post I am going to take the next step - take our containerised ASP.NET web application and deploy it to Kubernetes whilst making sure the build and deployment process is centralised and repeatable.

We previously looked at the basics of what is involved in bringing .NET Framework applications to Windows Containers.

Well... it's that time again!