This Week’s Link List (October 8, 2010)
This week saw a couple of announcements, lots of great community-written content, and even a few opinions. Feel free to add yours…
- This Visual Studio magazine article provides an overview of using PHP within WebMatrix to consume OData feeds and access SQL Azure: http://visualstudiomagazine.com/blogs/data-driver/2010/09/webmatrix-php-odata-sql-azure-entity-framework.aspx
- On the subject of WebMatrix, this entry (on the Microsoft Web Platform team blog) announces the availability of WebMatrix beta 2 and provides an overview of WebMatrix capabilities: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webplatform/archive/2010/10/06/microsoft-announces-webmatrix-beta-2.aspx
- The PHP memcache extension has been updated: http://pecl.php.net/package/memcache (Windows binaries are available here: http://www.php.net/~pierre/ )
- On the importance of logging in web development: http://www.codediesel.com/software/logging-in-web-development/
- Some thoughts on Microsoft's openness to change (when it comes to open source): http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/ew/2010/10/04/stories/2010100450100300.htm
- “Microsoft pay me to develop software they don’t have the rights to and they don’t tell me how to build it...”: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2010/1001/1224280063795.html?sms_ss=twitter&at_xt=4caa12595c466968,0
- Maarten Balliauw provides great insight on cost architecting for Windows Azure: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg213848.aspx
- What do Microsoft and eBay have in common? (Hint: Joomla!): http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1307-what-does-microsoft-and-ebay-have-in-common.html
- Gonzalo Ayuso provides GREAT guidance about when bind parameters with PDO (he backs up his advice with performance numbers too!): http://gonzalo123.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/performance-analysis-using-bind-parameters-with-pdo-and-php/
- Managing connections to cloud databases brings a different set of challenges than we used to. This TechNet wiki article takes an in-depth look at managing connections to SQL Azure: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/sql-azure-connection-management-in-sql-azure.aspx
- PHP needs to die?! Say it isn't so!: http://seldo.com/weblog/2010/09/27/php_needs_to_die_what_will_replace_it
- Mark Brown explores the benefits of running PHP on Windows: http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/100610_Mark_Brown_Explores_the_Benefits_of_Running_PHP_on_Windows
That’s it for this week…have a great weekend!
-Brian