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Crafting a Better PHP Build Process on Windows – Part IV

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : PHP — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:12:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Crafting a better PHP build process on Windows – Part 1

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : PHP — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:22:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Crafting a Better PHP Build Process on Windows – Part I

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : PHP — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:22:00 GMT

PHP|Tek in Chicago

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : PHP — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:29:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Announcing the PHP SDK for Windows Azure

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : PHP — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:29:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Apache Stonehenge: Interoperability at Work

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : PHP — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:24:00 GMT

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...(read more)

PHP 5.3 RC2 Highly Optimized for Windows

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : PHP — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:52:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Helping Facilitate Open Government

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : PHP — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:03:00 GMT

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...(read more)

The Hidden Technology Decision-Maker

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : PHP — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Japanese LAMP Engineers Visit Redmond

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : PHP — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:30:00 GMT

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...(read more)