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Since 2021 the software development industry has increasingly been headed in a direction where AI-assisted software development is the norm. Many developers already build solutions using assistants such as GitHub Copilot in their code editor of choice. GitHub is extending their vision with GitHub Copilot Workspace, currently in limited technical preview. I've been lucky enough to gain access to the tech preview, so in this post I am going to review its current capability.

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. I wanted to deploy this against a real organisation, so here are the steps I went through to get it working as a hosted site on an Azure Static Web App instance.

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. In this post I am going to show you how you use the tools you already use and love along with some open source magic that has a long history to build a documentation publishing workflow. All without needing to install Word or use Windows, even if you want to publish a Word document!

In this post I introduce the ideas of design-time validation and unit testing for Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) developed using Bicep. Perfect if you're new to IaC and from an Ops background!

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?

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. Along the way I've had plenty of people suggesting I host my blog in other ways. In this post, I explore why and how I've finally rebuilt my blog!

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.

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.

Thanks to UK-based Microsoft MVPs Gregor Suttie and Richard Hooper there is a great initiative through December 2019 that is doing 25 days of community-generated content...

In this post I'm going to look at what I think are the basics you need to know and show you a quick way to start working with Git without needing to install a bunch of tools.

In 2018 when I joined Microsoft Australia as the Azure Pro Developer Lead in Sydney one of the first things I worked on was building an engagement activity for event attendees at events we were sponsoring.