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Posted by Tom on Dec 11, 2025 in Development

How to: build a runner’s training and progress dashboard

I recently built myself a bespoke motivation/accountability dashboard for my running training. It’s one of those projects that I would never have had the time to sit...

Posted by Tom on Dec 5, 2025 in Development

Introducing “Winter for Windows” – the fun festive desktop addition for the season

A few weeks ago, I noticed in my social feed that Festivitas, the popular application for macOS, had a new version out. I was immediately jealous for my Windows PC...

Posted by Tom on May 19, 2025 in Development, Microsoft Teams

The Microsoft Teams Toolkit is now the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit

It’s finally happened! The Microsoft Teams Toolkit is now known as the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit. First announced at Build 2020, and with its GA in 2022,...

Posted by Tom on May 19, 2025 in Development

The new Meeting AI Insights API is nice … but there’s a big problem

As I spoke about this morning in my weekly update video, there’s a new Microsoft Graph API out, on the beta endpoint. It’s the “Meeting AI...

Posted by Tom on Jul 15, 2024 in Development, Microsoft Teams

Connectors in Microsoft Teams are being retired, and you don’t have long to transition

Edit: since publishing this article, Microsoft have responded to the (fairly predictable) outburst of negative feedback about this and revised the dates. You can read...

Posted by Tom on Jun 3, 2024 in Development

Unlocking Dev Proxy: An Interview with Microsoft Experts Garry Trinder and Waldeck Mastykarz

I’m thrilled to share an interview with two of Microsoft’s best Developer Advocates, Garry Trinder and Waldeck Mastykarz, where we dive deep into the...

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Hi, I'm Tom. I'm a Microsoft 365 Developer & Architect. I empower developers, architects, and organizations to achive more with Microsoft 365 by creating applications and services with technologies like Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Bot Framework, Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Graph, Adaptive Cards, and Office Add-Ins.

I'm passionate about creating great software that people will find useful and I want to help you do the same. This is my blog, you can find more about me, speaking engagements, code sample and more on my main site.