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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Tags: PHP~FeaturedPostInteropCommunityDynamic LanguagesPartnershipsPeter GalliJavaWindows ServerCodeplex
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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Tags: PHP~FeaturedPostInteropCommunityDynamic LanguagesPeter GalliJavaWindows Server
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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Tags: PHP~FeaturedPostCommunityDynamic LanguagesGarrett SerackWindows Server
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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Tags: PHP~FeaturedPostInteropCommunityDynamic LanguagesPartnershipsPeter GalliStandardsCodeplex
Apr 28, 2009
Enough people have asked me about it so I’m starting a podcast. I “think” my first interview will be with Rob Howard from Telligent on the future of Graffiti CMS. If you have questions for Rob, or topic requests for Podcasts, please contact me via the...
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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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Tags: PHPInteropCommunityWeb.NET DevelopmentWindows Server