This Week’s Link List (October 1, 2010)
Welcome October! (How’d October arrive so quickly?) The start of this month sees some great community-produced content (especially see the Programming Language Tradeoffs post), some important PHP/IIS announcements and releases, an in-depth look at developing applications for the cloud on the Windows Azure platform, and lots more…
- An in-depth look at developing applications for the cloud on Windows Azure: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff966499.aspx
- Scott Guthrie announces an ASP.NET security update: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/09/27/asp-net-security-update-shipping-tuesday-sept-28th.aspx (This update fixes issues that could affect PHP applications running on IIS as described here.)
- Lorna Mitchell shows you how to authenticate with Oauth from PHP: http://www.lornajane.net/posts/2010/Authenticating-with-OAuth-from-PHP
- "We won't tell you what the WebMatrix is, we'll show you.": http://pnwdrupalsummit.org/2010/sessions/what-webmatrix
- Ruslan Yakushev announced the final, stable release of the PHP Manager for IIS 7 (v1.0): http://ruslany.net/2010/09/php-manager-1-0-for-iis-7-stable-release/
- This is an old post (2007), but I found it helpful in understanding the difference between thread-safe and non-thread-safe PHP binaries: http://www.iis-aid.com/articles/my_word/difference_between_php_thread_safe_and_non_thread_safe_binaries
- Ever wonder how Drupal got its name? http://port25.ca/archive/2010/09/29/drupal-time.aspx
- This Programming language trade-offs post is a great overview of trade-offs different languages make by making one approach to programming (procedural, functional, declarative, object-oriented, etc.) easier to leverage than another: http://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/language-tradeoffs
Have a great weekend!
-Brian