It has been a little while since I last wrote a blog post, and today's is on a slightly different topic; however, hopefully others will find it useful. This post covers how to set up an Android work profile yourself without Intune configured. www.blueboxes.co.uk/setting-up-y...

I have a new blog post out today as part of Azure Back to School looking at my 10 Azure Mistakes and Pitfalls to Avoid. www.blueboxes.co.uk/top-10-azure... #AzureBacktoSchool2025 #Azure

I have a new blog post out today. After SendGrid removed its free tier, I explored replacing SendGrid with Azure Communication Services, particularly in cases where I wanted to send Emails via SMTP. www.blueboxes.co.uk/replacing-se...

Dehumidifier xkcd.com/3109/

I am pleased to share that I passed the Azure AI Fundamentals exam yesterday. I was surprised that learning for this exam brought back skills I have occasionally used over my 20+ years of coding, along with a set of more recent skills.

We should probably start to consider what the impact of using AI coding tools *all the time* will result in for: - Very experienced software engineers - Somewhat experienced folks (e.g. "mid-level") - Entry-level folks What is the good? The bad? The ugly of all of this?

Free SQL Managed Instance offer is now generally available by Strahinja Rodic techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sql...

The @azureweekly.endj.in #MSBuild special is finished. What a whopper! Over 250 links in this week's newsletter! Sign up at azureweekly.info before 6pm BST tonight if you want your copy!

I have a new blog post today, writing up a presentation I have done several times. In this post, we go through 8 ways to run a container on Azure. www.blueboxes.co.uk/navigating-r... #Azure

Elizabeth Holmes is in prison for defrauding investors through her blood-testing company, Theranos. Her partner, Billy Evans, is now trying to raise money for a company that describes itself as “the future of diagnostics.” nyti.ms/3FbtZm9

Visual Studio 2022 v17.14 is now generally available! ✨ Dive into AI-assisted development with GitHub Copilot's new agent mode, enhanced debugging tools, and more. Update today and experience the future of coding! Check it out. https://msft.it/6186SZGgq #VisualStudioNews #GitHubCopilot #AI #DevTools

Goodhart's Law - when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. sketchplanations.com/goodharts-law

Many people asked me how I highlighted lines in VS code and the "flashy slides" as @dddsouthwest.com yesterday. I am very grateful to @eliostruyf.com for the DemoTime VS Code extension. It's a great tool, and you can read more and try it yourself here: demotime.elio.dev

Had a great day yesterday at @dddsouthwest.com and watched many great talks. Thank you to all the speakers and organisers. Thank you also to everyone who attended my talk. The extra resources for the talk can be found here: gist.github.com/blueboxes/c6... #DDDSW2025

MCP just got a huge update so you can delegate the authorisation server to a third party like Entra, a massive security improvement. What a fab community effort @anthropic.com ! 👏 modelcontextprotocol.io/specificatio...

Just starting @dddsouthwest.com with @kevsoft.net talk on Fixing a broken Messaging

I have a new blog post, Exploring Container Sidecars on App Service Plans on Azure. www.blueboxes.co.uk/exploring-co... #Azure #Cloud

It will not be long until DDD South West, and I am looking forward to it. I hope to see many of you there!

🚀 Introducing the Azure MCP Server! Now AI agents can interact with Azure services like Cosmos DB, Storage, and Log Analytics using natural language—context-aware and powerful. Learn more 👉 devblogs.microsoft.c...

New batch of tickets released! We've just released another round of 50 tickets, so go check out the page on Ticket Tailor below to join us at #DDDSouthWest www.tickettailor.com/events/dddso... ❤️ DDDSW

🚀 Demo Time v1.1.0 is live! 🎬 New slide animations: - fade-in - typewriter - highlight 📊 Mermaid diagram support is here too! Make your live demos shine ✨ 👉 demotime.elio.dev #VSCode #DemoTime #DevTools #MermaidJS #LiveCoding

Sending Emails with MCP and Azure Communication Services Today, we will use the MCP protocol to connect to Azure Communication Services and send an email from an MCP client and server running on a GitHub Codespace from GitHub Copilot. #mvpbuzz #azure luke.geek.nz/azure/m...#mvpbuzz#azure

Build Remote MCP servers using Azure Functions in C# & .NET | with Matt Soucoup. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de... #dotnet #mcp #csharp #azure #cloud #azurefunctions #ai #aimodels

Slides? ✅ Code? ✅ Commands? ✅ Automation? ✅ All in one place: #VSCode With Demo Time, your next presentation won’t need PowerPoint or Keynote. It’s the PowerPoint killer for developers. 👉 demotime.elio.dev #VSCode #PublicSpeaking #DeveloperExperience

Nothing beats a second set of eyes. Get a code review from Copilot so your teammates never see the silly mistakes. Copilot does not judge.

Export as Bicep is fully available today! 💪 Test it out yourself in the portal, instructions can be found here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...

Announcing the Microsoft AI Skills Fest: Save the date! techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microso... #AI #MicrosoftLearn #MVPBuzz

The final day of #AzureSpringClean is live! You now have a whopping five days of content to check out with over 50 sessions. We're blown away by the work this year, what an amazing set of contributors. azurespringclean.com #MVPBuzz

An impressive set of content is live for day three of #AzureSpringClean! You also can check out the previous two days and there is only more to come tomorrow and Friday! azurespringclean.com #MVPBuzz

I am spending the day at the Microsoft AI tour in London today. It's been great so far but still so much to hear about. If you see me around say hi

Today is my turn for #AzureSpringClean! I have a new blog post covering some details on updating your app to run on Azure Linux App Service Plans instead of Windows. www.blueboxes.co.uk/migrating-as... #AzureSpringClean #Microsoft #Azure #MVPBuzz

Day two of #AzureSpringClean is live! You now have two days of content to check out. Some amazing work from our contributors so far and more to come throughout the week azurespringclean.com #MVPBuzz

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Add my Azure Spring Clean 2025 starter pack to follow this year's contributors. If you are a contributor I've missed please let me know and I will add you. #AzureSpringClean #AzureFamily #AzOps go.bsky.app/KNZv2Dn

Picard management tip: Give your crew the best technology available and you'll be amazed what they can do for your enterprise.

Azure Spring Clean 2025 starts tomorrow! Get ready for a week of great content from our awesome community! My session on Azure FinOps is live at 10am GMT on Monday. The link to that plus the full schedule is at azurespringclean.com #AzureSpringClean #Azure #MVPBuzz

Finally feels like spring here in the UK today 🌱

I have a new blog post out today exploring updating docker images automatically with ACR. www.blueboxes.co.uk/keeping-net-... #Azure #devops

Just finished the story mode on Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Such an amazing game, strong story and really immersive like an interactive movie more than a game. Highly recommend.

I started this list to capture the official Microsoft PG accounts. Any I've missed? #MVPBuzz

Hey .NET devs! Are you following @dot.net here on Bluesky already? If not, what are you waiting for?

If you want to geek out for 12 mins: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSHm...

New article alert! Have you heard? Dev Home is going away before it even arrived! Check it out here: https://buff.ly/4i41GUu #Developmentenvironment #Tech #DevHome #MicrosoftStore

Azure Developer CLI (azd) – February 2025 release. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk/azure-developer-cli-azd-february-2025/ #cloud #azure #cli #webdev #azd

Tomorrow is your last day to submit your session for #AzureSpringClean an amazing set of submissions already, make sure to submit yours to be part of it! azurespringclean.com #MVPBuzz #CloudFamily

The CfS for #AzureSpringClean closes this Sunday 9th Feb, have you submitted yet? We've over 50 unique speakers already in! sessionize.com/azure-spring...

Dear accessibility community, I need help. I'm gathering examples of WCAG compliant or "with good accessibility" websites to illustrate a future article. I want to showcase those websites to motivate others to do so. Would you share these with me? Thank you so much, I'll start 👇🏼

Do not buy where you would not be hired. Some companies shore up on toxic workplaces whilst others continue to seek to build safe and inclusive spaces with a diversity of ideas from people of different backgrounds.

The #CloudNativeWeekly team are back to wrap up the first month of 2025! Join us as we chat through the latest and greatest in the Cloud Native world. Streamed live on YouTube at: www.youtube.com/live/k6Wd6Z2... #CloudNative #Azure #AWS #GCP #MVPBuzz #Kubernetes

Microsoft is making DeepSeek’s R1 model available on Azure AI and GitHub today. Microsoft has moved surprisingly quickly to bring R1 to its Azure customers, and it's planning to bring a smaller distilled version to Copilot+ PCs too. Details below 👇 www.theverge.com/news/602162/...