GitHub Copilot: Pick a Model, Any Model
Let's dig into model choices with GitHub Copilot.
Latest
You Got GitHub Copilot Free, Now What?
You can use GitHub Copilot Chat in GitHub to answer general questions about software development, or specific questions about the issues or code in a repository.
31 Days of GitHub Copilot
The start of 31 days of GitHub Copilot.
Engineering AI into Your Apps with GitHub Workshop
This post will contain links and information from my in-person workshop on August 8, 2025 for VSLIVE! 2025 in Redmond, WA, at Microsoft HQ, Building 33. GitHub - Azure-Samples/azure-search-openai-demo-csharp: A sample app for the Retrieval-Augmented Generation pattern running in Azure, using Azure Cognitive Search for retrieval and Azure OpenAI
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Court nullifies “click-to-cancel” rule that required easy methods of cancellation
Friday Workshop March 14
Here's where links will be posted, etd. from the VSLIVE 2025 Las Vegas workshop. Links GitHub - Azure-Samples/azure-search-openai-demo-csharp: A sample app for the Retrieval-Augmented Generation pattern running in Azure, using Azure Cognitive Search for retrieval and Azure OpenAI large language models to power ChatGPT-style and Q&
GitHub Copilot - More Than You Know
Links from my March 13, 2025, talk at VSLIVE Las Vegas. GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmerGitHub Copilot works alongside you directly in your editor, suggesting whole lines or entire functions for you.GitHubCopilot EditsGet started with Copilot Edits to start an AI-powered code editing session across multiple files in
State of the AI World for Developers
Conference talk information
Trying Something New
This is a test post. I want to link to a "page" on my blog. In this case, this page
Thank you Techorama NL 2023
This post will be updated on Tuesday, October 17, 2023, with links, etc. Sorry for the delay.
Time to start writing
I've been working now at GitHub for almost two years. Wow time flies. Recently I moved roles. I'm now a Developer Advocate so one of the things I want to start doing again is this: blogging. Let's see how this goes. Normally I wouldn&
Missing E-mail? Use Office 365? Read this.
Missing mail delivered to Office 365? Have you checked quarantine?
new-year
Happy July 4, 2020
Brian welcomes part 2 of 2020 with some good news.
Azure DevOps
Azure Pipelines Deep Dive
Here's some links from my workshop on June 3, 2020. Thanks for coming! Create an Azure DevOps Organization [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/accounts/create-organization?view=azure-devops] Azure DevOps Admin Getting Started [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/user-guide/project-admin-tutorial?view=azure-devops] Create an
vslive
VSLIVE 2020 Las Vegas GitHub HOL
Mickey Gousset and I will be delivering a hands-on lab (HOL) at VSLIVE 2020 Last Vegas on Sunday, March 1, 2020 [https://vslive.com/Events/Las-Vegas-2020/Sessions/Sunday/HOL01-HOL-Better-DevOps-using-GitHub-for-Open-Source.aspx] . You must provide your own laptop computer (Windows or Mac) for this hands-on lab. Experience with C# coding and basic
Azure DevOps
Live 360! Two-Day HOL Pre-workshop Config
Sunday & Monday, November 17 & 18, 2019, will find myself and my buddy Phil Japikse in sunny Orlando, FL, delivering a two-day hands-on lab Building Modern ASP.NET Core Web Apps the Right Way with Azure DevOps in Two Days. You can find all details here [https://live360events.com/
speaking
VSLive! 2019 San Diego Workshop Details
Everything you need to know for the hands-on Azure DevOps workshop at VSLive! 2019 San Diego
speaking
VSLive! 2019 Boston Workshop Details
VSLive! 2019 Boston HOL Setup Notes
Windows 10
Staying Current with Windows 10-2019 Update
As I sit here in 2019 working, I'm updating a variety of real and virtual machines. And due to a number of issues (Native VHD boot aka "boot to VHD"), I'm still running older versions of Windows 10 and Server 2016. Thankfully, I'
DevOps
Azure DevOps, Public Projects, and Pipelines
Azure DevOps brings freedom to your OSS builds and releases!
vslive
Learn Lots in Las Vegas—VSLive! March 2018
As I get back to work after the core bit of the holidays, I've been refining my backlog. As a speaker and conference chair for VSLive!, I've got lots to do. Rocky [http://www.lhotka.net/weblog/], Andrew [https://about.me/andrewbrust], and I will be
Personal
2018 is here!
2018 is already looking to be busy. Is some ways more so than last year. I've got eight conferences already confirmed for 2018 with the first in Las Vegas for VSLive! [https://vslive.com/events/las-vegas-2018/home.aspx] I have the MVP Summit in March which I'
dream.build.play.
Dream.Build.Play.
Update 2018-01-01 Well, as the eternal optimist, I bit off more than I could chew with work and the holidays. So I'll focus on using all of 2018 to get the game done. :D So not contest entry for me but I've already learned a bunch
dream.build.play.
If you build it, they will come ...
... or so they say. In 1989, it was a baseball diamond in a corn field in Iowa. The movie was the Field of Dreams. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3c_pJ_CLJQ] For me on December 1, 2017, it's to build an app for my family and