Jan 06, 2009
Over the past year, Microsoft has stepped up its participation in initiatives supporting Free and Open Source Software projects like Apache, Samba , and PHP . The company has also been working more closely with the PHP community, sponsoring PHP events...
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Tags: PHP~FeaturedPostCommunityOpen SourceIndustry ConferencesPeter Galli
Oct 29, 2008
Wednesday - Day two for my IPC in Mainz conference, which is a developer orientated PHP conference . Very well attended. The most negative thing I can say about this conference is that for some unknown (but brilliant beyond my level of comprehension)...
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Tags: PHPCommunityOpen SourceIndustry ConferencesPort 25 News
Oct 28, 2008
Today is Tuesday - That must mean I am in Mainz. I am on day 12 of my European trip. I was in Rome and Amsterdam last week. In Rome I attended the Moodle conference , which was pretty cool. It was put on by Roma Tre and was one of many destinations in...
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Tags: PHPInteropCommunityOpen SourceIndustry ConferencesHank Janssen
Oct 27, 2008
Today at PDC in Los Angeles, Ray Ozzie unveiled the Azure Services Platform , which will enable developers to build the next generation of applications - spanning all the way from the cloud to the enterprise data center. My team's focus has been on making...
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Tags: PHP~FeaturedPostInteropCommunityOpen SourcePort 25 NewsStandardsJavaSam RamjiRuby
Mar 24, 2008
Howdy ya'll, I was recently in Boston, and managed to spend a couple of days at Drupalcon , where Port25 was a silver level sponsor for the event. The herd was over 800 attendees--all focused on Drupal . Needless to say, I was duly impressed. What's Drupal...
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Tags: PHP~FeaturedPostCommunityGarrett Serack
Feb 25, 2008
There are no guarantees that a future of Microsoft + Yahoo! will arrive, but the possibilities have me feeling positive. These are just my personal opinions – and who knows what will happen – but a few things described below give me optimism for an increasingly...
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Tags: PHP~FeaturedPostCommunityOpen SourceSam Ramji
Dec 19, 2007
I spend a significant amount of my time crisscrossing Microsoft, looking for (and advocating) interesting ways that our research and development teams are adopting open approaches in their work. It’s not terribly difficult - and, in fact, increasingly...
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Tags: PHPCommunityRubyWebjcannonDev CenterVisual Studio
Nov 08, 2007
Our own Hank Janssen gives the Channel9 team an update on the work that has been done to provide a native driver to SQL Server for PHP. "SQL Team Says: "The SQL Server Driver for PHP (October 2007) Community Technology Preview (CTP) is designed...
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Tags: PHPInteropCommunityHank JanssenWebDev Center