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Holiday Tech Gift Guide 2025: Tools That Made Me More Productive
Looking for last-minute gifts for the developers in your life? Here are the tools and subscriptions that genuinely improved my productivity in 2025.
Tools
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Tool Orchestration: Managing Complex Tool Interactions
Robust tool orchestration enables complex, reliable AI workflows.
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Model Context Protocol in Azure: Standardized Tool Integration
MCP standardizes how AI systems connect to external tools and data sources.
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Function Calling Patterns: Building Reliable AI Tools
Well-designed function calling creates powerful AI applications that interact safely with real systems.
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Developer Experience for Data and AI Teams
Great developer experience is an investment that pays dividends in productivity, quality, and retention. Measure it and improve it continuously.
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Leveraging Azure OpenAI with Claude Dev and Continue in VSCode
As a developer constantly evaluating new tools to enhance productivity, I've recently implemented a setup that combines Azure OpenAI with two VSCode…
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Tool Choice Control: Fine-Tuning When and How AI Uses Tools
Tool choice control is essential for building AI applications that are predictable, safe, and aligned with your business logic. Use these patterns to guide…
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Function Calling Updates: What's New in September 2024
Function calling is the foundation of agentic AI. These patterns help you build reliable, type-safe tool integrations that scale.
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Tool Use Patterns for AI Agents
Tools extend what AI agents can do beyond text generation. Today I'm exploring patterns for effective tool use in production agents.
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Enhanced Function Calling in GPT-4 Turbo
Parallel function calling in GPT-4 Turbo is the DevDay improvement to function calling that changes what's architecturally practical with AI agents.…
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Developer Productivity Tools and Practices for 2023
The game changer for code generation: Beyond Copilot, ChatGPT helps with: Code explanation and review Documentation generation Debugging assistance Learning…
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Getting Started with Azure Data Studio
Azure Data Studio offers a lightweight, customizable interface that combines the best features of modern code editors with database-specific functionality.
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My Tech List 2022
Here is a list of all the relevant technology set up that I use personally at work, home, and everything in between. I grouped them on different groups…