Archives
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Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP Released
You can find more details on this release on IIS team Product Unit Manager Mai-lan Tomsen Bukovec's blog.
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Zend Launches Open Source Initiative to Drive Cloud Application Development
Today, Zend Technologies announced the Simple API for Cloud Application Services project, which is a new open source initiative that allows developers to use common application services in the cloud, while enabling them to unlock value-added features available from individual providers.
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More on the Hyper-V Linux Integration Components
Well, there is no easy way to say this, so I am simply going to start this blog with the following line.
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Crafting a Better PHP Build Process on Windows – Part IV
In the previous post, I discussed what it took to use PGO on the Windows PHP build. That led to me building automated build scripts...
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Crafting a Better PHP Build Process on Windows – Part I
The last several months, I've been working very deeply with PHP - specifically, compiling the PHP core itself, and looking for avenues for optimization. This is the first of four posts about the journey I've been on with PHP.
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Crafting a better PHP build process on Windows – Part 1
The last several months, I've been working very deeply with PHP - specifically, compiling the PHP core itself, and looking for avenues for optimization. This is the first of four posts about the journey I've been on with PHP.
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PHP|Tek in Chicago
Last week I got the perfect excuse to get out of the Planning and Budget process that we are going through right now, attending PHP|Tek, which was a welcome escape as planning and budgeting in any company is usually enough fun to make a grown man cry!
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Announcing the PHP SDK for Windows Azure
Vijay Rajagopalan, a Principal Architect here at Microsoft, is at TechEd India, where he will demo later this week a new set of interoperability projects related to PHP.
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Apache Stonehenge: Interoperability at Work
The Stonehenge incubator project is approaching its first milestone: deploying the first set of samples and making them work together.
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PHP 5.3 RC2 Highly Optimized for Windows
Howdy,
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Helping Facilitate Open Government
Microsoft will announce on May 7 an initiative to help government agencies and developers publish and interact with their data in Windows Azure, the company's cloud computing platform.
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Integrate Your IT Environment
Microsoft is embarking on a 15-city road show to help customers learn more about available solutions that may address their unique interoperability needs.
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The Hidden Technology Decision-Maker
On Monday Microsoft and SD Forum held the 3rd annual Open Source ISV Forum. In a day of interesting talks, I was particularly struck by Larry Augustin's talk. As an emphasizing example of the growth of open source projects partnered with a commercial endeavor, Larry mentioned DotNetNuke.
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Better Tools for Web Development
Several years ago I was helping a musician friend of mine set up a web site to use as a promotional site for his live performances. I opted for a simple, PHP-based Content Management System (CMS) that wouldn’t require any special knowledge for him to post new information, and would be – famous last words – easy for me to set up and maintain. -
Japanese LAMP Engineers Visit Redmond
I was fortunate enough to spend last Thursday with a group of LAMP engineers who have some experience with Windows Server and IIS, and who are based in Japan.
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Update: PHP 5.3 on Windows
Congratulations to the PHP community on its PHP 5.3 alpha 2 release in December. In roughly one month, there have been over 80,000 downloads of the alpha 2 release from unique IP addresses.
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What's Microsoft up to with PHP?
It makes for interesting reading!