This Week’s Link List (October 22, 2010)
I’ve been busy this week preparing presentations for PHP World Kongress and TechEd Europe next month, but I haven’t been too busy to read some interesting articles…hope you find them interesting too…
- Part 2 of how to send e-mails from Windows Azure: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2010/10/15/adoption-program-insights-sending-emails-from-windows-azure-part-2-of-2.aspx
- How to debug requests from a mobile phone: http://www.eschrade.com/page/debugging-mobile-4cb8acc8
- Get billing numbers from SQL Azure by executing queries: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/billing-numbers-directly-from-transact-sql.aspx
- Top ten mistakes when building and maintaining a database: http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3906986/article.htm
- An look at the differences between SQL Server and SQL Azure (and it's on the TechNet Wiki, so you can add your 2 cents): http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/comparing-sql-server-with-sql-azure.aspx
- Common security mistakes in PHP web applications: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/18/common-security-mistakes-in-web-applications/
- Practical uses for PHP 5.3 closures: http://www.vancelucas.com/blog/practical-uses-for-php-5-3-closures/
- Michelangelo van Dam's thoughts on preparing for the PHP 5.3 certification exam: http://www.dragonbe.com/2010/10/preparing-for-php-53-certification-exam.html
- A common PHP API for utilizing offerings of all major cloud vendors: http://simplecloud.org/api
- Josh Holmes walks you through using the SimpleCloud API: http://www.joshholmes.com/blog/2010/10/22/zend-simplecloud-and-azure/
- Microsoft announces a partnership with Cloud.com to provide support for Windows Server Hyper-V virtualization stack to the OpenStack project, an open source cloud computing platform: http://port25.technet.com/archive/2010/10/22/open-source-cloud-collaboration.aspx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
- Maarten Balliauw shows you how to move your application to the cloud during high-traffic periods: http://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2010/10/22/Scale-out-to-the-cloud-scale-back-to-your-rack.aspx
Have a great weekend.
-Brian