Jason Haley

Ramblings from an Independent Consultant

Hands-on Agent Framework Workshop Jan 2026

Yesterday Bill Wilder, Udai Ramachandran and I held the first In-person, hands-on, all-day, free. Agent Framework Dev Day in BURLINGTON MA for the year. This year, we targeted both .NET and python developers (last year we only focused on .NET). My presentation and labs focused on implementing Agentic RAG with Agent Framework. Talk: Agentic RAG NOTE: The repository has moved to the new Agent Framework Dev Day github. About the Lab This year I tried to stay away from the instructional labs that just turns into a treasure hunt, copy paste set of instructions … though not completely. This year I created notebooks to cover the fundamentals, then a hands on exercise that had some instructions and excercises - plus the solution to the exercises. Notebooks: The Ingestion Phase (.NET) …

Personal Update January 2026

This year I am back writing blogs! I’ll attempt to provide a quarterly personal update, but otherwise I’m going to be providing a lot on Microsoft’s Agent Framework, Microsoft Foundry and I will finally be getting to that Agentic RAG Chronicles series I announced Q4 last year. Personal Update I will keep this short … last year was not a good year for me personally. Every time I “pre-announced” a blog post series (Dec 2024 and Oct 2025), something bad happened in my personal and family life shortly after. Every quarter had its own nightmare scenario happen. Emotionally it sucked. Ok, enough personal stuff. This year I’m in a much better place emotionally and really looking forward to this year. Work Update Last year was full of Gen AI projects. …