This week, there was lots of news about the release of Windows Azure Companion and updates to other Azure-related SDKs for PHP. And, an important announcement about an ASP.NET vulnerability that could affect PHP sites running on IIS…and other stuff…

• Vijay Rajagopalan blogs about the new Windows Azure releases for PHP developers: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2010/09/19/windows-azure-platform-gets-easier-for-php-developers-to-write-modern-cloud-applications.aspx
• Maarten Balliauw walks through installation and usage of Windows Azure Companion: http://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2010/09/18/Introducing-Windows-Azure-Companion-Cloud-for-the-masses.aspx
• More from Maarten...this time about accessing Windows Azure Diagnostics with PHP: http://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2010/09/23/Windows-Azure-Diagnostics-in-PHP.aspx
• Jim O'Neil walks through using Windows Azure Companion to get WordPress running in the cloud: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jimoneil/archive/2010/09/19/windows-azure-companion-php-and-wordpress-in-azure.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0
• The comments are the best part of this Sitepoint blog that raises the issue of closing PHP script tags (or not): http://blogs.sitepoint.com/2010/09/18/should-you-close-your-php-code-tags/
• This is older content, but good nonetheless. This blog post looks at the benefits of using the IIS Application Warm Up Module to improve application performance: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/688/using-the-iis-application-warm-up-module/
• An ASP.NET could affect PHP sites running on IIS. This blog post looks at ways to mitigate risk until the vulnerability is fixed: http://blogs.iis.net/ruslany/archive/2010/09/22/asp-net-vulnerability-affecting-php-sites-on-iis.aspx
• How to create tables in SQL Azure using Houston (the Web interface for SQL Azure admin): http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlazure/archive/2010/09/23/10066756.aspx
• This is just for fun: Programmers who have influenced computer programming (no surprise to see Rasmus Lerdorf on the list): http://blog.sherweb.com/the-men-behind-the-code-creators-of-famous-programming-languages/

Have a great weekend!

Thanks.

-Brian

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