I had a great time on Wednesday evening at the Central Ohio Azure meetup. Great presentation from Mark Tinderholt on #Azure OpenAI.

Friday was a fun day of working with my team to learn more about a customer problem and start ideation on solutions.

First day back at work after a weeklong vacation!

Great lunch today with a longtime friend talking about #Azure, #AI, and agents.

Looking forward to reading this new book by my friend Drew Robbins

I don’t care how many times I’ve seen Avengers:Endgame. If it’s on TV, I’m watching the final battle scene.

Looking forward to the Central Ohio Azure presentation on Wednesday by @shawnwallace. Join us! Join me at How API Gateways and Event Streams work together meetu.ps/e/P1RYq/1NDjQ/i #Azure

Setting up Azure Functions Flex Consumption to play with Durable Task Scheduler. My orchestration is stuck in "Pending". ARRRG . . . DTS doesn't run Flex yet. :( learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/az…

Join me at Central Ohio .NET Developers Group this Thursday, July 24th for a lightning talk on getting started with Azure Durable Task Scheduler. meetup.com/central-ohio-n… Azure Functions Microsoft Azure

New blog post! 🧑‍💻 Dev’ing on a Surface Copilot+ PC (Snapdragon X Elite)? It’s fast—but not without a few gotchas. ⚠️ Docker issues 🛠️ Azure Functions preview tools ✅ Codespaces for the win Read it → michaelscollier.com/development-su… #Azure #AzureFunctions #DevLife #CopilotPC #ARM64

I've got 3 local tech user group sessions lined up for the next month. I'm scheduled to talk about Azure Durable Functions and agentic workflows. Should be fun! Join me!! @azure Microsoft AzureFunctions michaelscollier.com/user-groups-ju…

Just finished Happy Gilmore 2. Loved it!

I was looking to do something w/ Aspire tonight & couldn’t figure it out. A few related old issues in the GitHub repo, but nothing solid. Decided to have a look at the NEW Aspire Discord, and boom, noticed 9.4 just dropped and seems to have the feature I was looking for! #Aspire

Fun coding on Thursday evening. Learning more about setting up an MCP server, Semantic Kernel agents, NET Aspire and Durable Functions. Azure Functions .NET #AI

Say goodbye to "magic strings" in your .NET Aspire projects! Learn how to replace them with centralized constants for cleaner, safer, and easier-to-manage code. 🔗 Check out my latest blog post: michaelscollier.com/aspire-secret-… #dotnet #Aspire #CleanCode #SoftwareDevelopment #CSharp

🚀 Early preview: Bring-Your-Own Remote MCP Server on Azure Functions! Keep your existing Python/Node/.NET MCP code and just host remotely on Flex Consumption plan w/ bursty, event-driven scaling, built-in security & serverless pricing. Try it now! aka.ms/BYO-remote-mcp #MCP

Now you can build a remote MCP server with more flexibility - you can BYO MCP server or favorite SDK based code to Azure Functions and run on our Flex Consumption compute (crazy scale, serverless billing, secure). This brings in all the Anthropic SDKs, FastMCP and more as

ESPN FAN SUPPORT I can’t get into my Fantasy Football League this year. I was in last year. League owner didn’t change anything. I can’t access via web or new ESPN Fantasy app. Please help!

If I was closer to Chicago, I’d be attending!

I had a blast delivering my “Agentic Workflows with Azure Functions and Friends” talk at the Central Ohio .NET Group on Thursday evening! Good turnout. Great questions and discussion!! Azure Functions #Azure