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Designing a 30-Day Microsoft Developer Project: Ship a Portfolio-Ready App

Introduction A promising idea can turn into a half-built app fast. Designing a 30-day Microsoft developer project gives you a clear deadline a...

AI Weekly: Cowork Builds Apps, Copilot Harness, and GitHub Universe

The PPCC catch-up: Cowork builds Dataverse apps, Canvas Studio gets an authoring agent, Microsoft opens its Copilot harness, and GitHub Univer...

Episode 7.11: Program Roadmaps & Phased Delivery | Sequencing Enterprise Architecture for Maximum

Using Claude Code for X++ development: local MCP and trace analysis

A practical X++ development workflow with Claude Code: analyse and compile code, query AxDB, run the Dynamics 365 ERP MCP server on a local de...

Everything released in October 2026 for Azure Developer CLI

The October recap for the Azure Developer CLI (`azd`). Preview service deployments before making changes, deploy to Container Apps express, re...

Is Azure SQL Database Hyperscale “distributed SQL”?

In my last post, I broke down the Socrates paper, the research that became Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Writing it made me want to tackle a ...

How I Use Muse in Singapore: Trips, Cricket and Smaller Bills.

Muse is Meta’s personal AI agent. It launched in Singapore on 28 October 2026. It links to Gmail and Calendar and to local apps such as ...

Excel: Left Function

Returns characters from the start of a text string. Defaults to one character and always returns text.