PHP Blogs from Port25 : Interop

Zend Launches Open Source Initiative to Drive Cloud Application Development

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : PHP — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)

More on the Hyper-V Linux Integration Components

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : PHP — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:24:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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)

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)

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)

Integrate Your IT Environment

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : PHP — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:41:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Better Tools for Web Development

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : PHP — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:10:00 GMT

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...(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)

Update: PHP 5.3 on Windows

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : PHP — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:53:00 GMT

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. You can see that interest in PHP on Windows is growing significantly...(read more)

On the Road in Europe - Take 1

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : PHP — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:25:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Opening Day: Azure Platform Debuts

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : PHP — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:00:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Hank Janssen & John Bocharov: Introduction to SQL Server Driver for PHP (SQLPHP)

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : PHP — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:14:00 GMT

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...(read more)

PHP SQL Server drivers, much improved IIS support for PHP - what is this world coming to!

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : PHP — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:15:00 GMT

Yes I am still alive! As I write this, I realize that I have been very delinquent with writing blogs. Time has gone by very fast, and I keep on working on more and more things. And before you know it, you look back and months have gone by without any...(read more)

PHP on IIS

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : PHP — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:01:00 GMT

Just about one year ago, Bill Hilf announced Zend and Microsoft's partnership to enhance PHP performance on Windows Server's IIS web server. This technical collaboration has focused on enhancing the reliability and performance of PHP on Windows...(read more)