Nov 19, 2009
The Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) team announced today the release of Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP , a PHP accelerator that is used to increase the speed of PHP applications running on Windows and Windows Server. This is a production...
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Tags: PHP~FeaturedPostCommunityOpen SourcePeter Galli.NET DevelopmentWindows Server
Sep 22, 2009
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...
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Jul 20, 2009
Well, there is no easy way to say this, so I am simply going to start this blog with the following line. Microsoft just submitted source code for the Hyper-V Linux Integration Components to the Linux Kernel Community Under GPL v2. Well, there's a conversation...
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Jun 23, 2009
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... Automation as the root of all evil "Anything that can be done for you, automatically, can be done to you, automatically...
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Tags: PHP~FeaturedPostInteropCommunityOpen SourceDynamic LanguagesGarrett Serack
Jun 09, 2009
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. I get started building PHP...
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Jun 09, 2009
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. I get started building PHP...
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Tags: PHP~FeaturedPostCommunityOpen SourceDynamic LanguagesGarrett Serack
May 27, 2009
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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Tags: PHP~FeaturedPostCommunityOpen SourceDynamic LanguagesIndustry ConferencesHank Janssen
May 12, 2009
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. These projects include the PHP SDK for Windows Azure , an open source effort for...
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May 12, 2009
The Stonehenge incubator project is approaching its first milestone: deploying the first set of samples and making them work together. This is a really exciting development and continues to deliver on the project's primary goal: to provide practical applications...
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May 11, 2009
Howdy, I've been working for many months with Pierre Joye - well, really many people in the PHP community - on getting PHP to run faster on Windows. Pierre has been working rapidly on upgrading libraries (Pierre pioneered the work to get PHP and its hoard...
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May 06, 2009
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. One of these is the Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI), a cloud...
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Apr 02, 2009
Microsoft is embarking on a 15-city road show to help customers learn more about available solutions that may address their unique interoperability needs. This is just another of the many ways Microsoft continues to respond to customers working in heterogeneous...
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Mar 25, 2009
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...
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Mar 18, 2009
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...
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Mar 10, 2009
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. The three - Kimio Tanaka, the president of Museum IN Cloud; Junpei Hosoda, the president of...
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