This Week’s Link List (November 26, 2010)
I have been a slacker about posting my weekly link list recently…I’ll chalk that to attending conferences in the last couple of weeks, though I know that is a poor excuse. This week, however, I’m back in action and have LOTS to share because I have been collecting links even if I haven’t been publishing them. I’ve tried to limit this post to the best of the best over the last three weeks, but as you can see, that was difficult…
- The Microsoft Web Platform team announces the availability of Web Matrix Beta 3: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webplatform/archive/2010/11/09/webmatrix-beta-3-now-available.aspx
- PHP 5.3 and PEAR are now available in Web Matrix Beta 3: http://blogs.iis.net/ruslany/archive/2010/11/10/php-5-3-and-pear-available-in-webmatrix-beta-3.aspx
- Ruslan Yakushev, Program Manager on the IIS team at Microsoft, walks you through how to install PEAR and phploc on Windows: http://blogs.iis.net/ruslany/archive/2010/11/22/how-to-install-php-pear-and-phploc-on-windows.aspx
- Although this post uses C# code, I found the summary matrix to be a helpful guide in deciding whether an application should use SQL Azure or Windows Azure Table storage: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg309178.aspx
- Devis Lucato walks you through the how’s and why’s of using anonymous objects in PHP: http://lucato.it/php-anonymous-objects
- Who knew there was an entire community devoted to regular expressions? http://regexlib.com/default.aspx
- A short post with some practical guidance on how to partition Azure Tables: http://www.reliablesoftware.com/DasBlog/PermaLink,guid,9dada6df-26b0-44e9-aa37-c390fa008994.aspx
- Jose DaSilva takes a quick look at how to use the __invoke function in PHP 5.3: http://blog.josedasilva.net/revisiting-php-5-3-__invoke-magic-method/
- A look at the SEQUENCE functionality that is coming in the next version of SQL Server: http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/DataMgmt/DataDesign/a-first-look-at-sequences-in-sql-server
- How to use the PHP Filter extension to validate user data: http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/PHP-Filter-Extension/Jason_Gilmore11112010.php3
- Lorna Mitchell writes a quick post that shows how to set cookies with cURL: http://www.lornajane.net/posts/2010/Curl-and-Cookies
- Josh Holmes posts his ZendCon presentation about running PHP and ASP.NET together: http://www.joshholmes.com/blog/2010/11/11/asp-net-and-php-on-iis-together/
- Rob Allen posts PHP code for validating UK postal codes: http://akrabat.com/zend-framework/validating-uk-postcodes/
- A new whitepaper about the Microsoft Drivers for SQL Server for PHP is now available: http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2010/11/15/php-drivers-for-sql-server-whitepaper-sql-pdo-and-microsoft-sql-server.aspx
- Rob Allen posts some notes on writing blobs to SQL Server with the SQLSRV driver: http://akrabat.com/php/some-notes-on-sql-server-blobs-with-sqlsrv/
- Johannes Schlüter follows up a previous post with more info about scalar type hints in PHP: http://schlueters.de/blog/archives/148-More-on-scalar-type-hints-in-PHP-trunk.html
- An interesting comparison of Flash, HTML5, and Silverlight: http://blog.scratchaudio.com/2010/11/html5-flash-silverlight-which-one-is-dead/
- Free 30-day trial of Windows Azure, no credit card required: https://blogs.technet.com/b/webtech/archive/2010/11/24/it-s-back-30-days-windows-azure-platform-no-credit-card-required.aspx
- This article has a good summary of the differences between SQL Server and SQL Azure: http://blogical.se/blogs/jahlen/archive/2010/11/23/sql-azure-why-use-it-and-what-makes-it-different-from-sql-server.aspx
To those of you celebrating Thanksgiving, have a wonderful holiday! And a wonderful weekend to everyone.
Thanks.
-Brian