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Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP Released

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : PHP — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:40:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

What's Microsoft up to with PHP?

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : PHP — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:18:00 GMT

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...(read more)

On the Road in Europe - Take 2

Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : PHP — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:38:00 GMT

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)...(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)