This Week’s Link List (September 17, 2010)
Clearly, the dog days of summer are past us. This week has seen a significant uptick in community-produced content related to PHP, Microsoft, open source, and more. There is enough here that you might want to allocate some weekend time for reading (or maybe not?)…
- This is a fantastic look at NoSQL vs. SQL...well worth the time it takes to read it: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10770
- If you are looking to get started with PHP and SQL Server 2008, this video is a good place to start: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/sql-server-2008-and-php-web-application-infrastructure.aspx
- More "getting started" material, this time with PHP and Windows Azure: http://www.siosphere.com/2010/09/windows-azure-getting-started-with-php/
- Scott Guthrie explains his own blog post better than I could: "In today’s post I’m going to be discussing Microsoft Web Deploy – which is a free server technology that enables a comprehensive publishing and deployment mechanism. Web Deploy enables you to not only publish files – but also provision database schema/data, run database change scripts, set security ACLs, and more. All of these deployment steps can be automated using Visual Studio.": http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/09/13/automating-deployment-with-microsoft-web-deploy.aspx
- Building an ORM with PHP by Gonzalo Ayuso. He starts off by suggesting you look at Doctrine or Doctrine2, but then goes on to describe why and how he built his own ORM: http://gonzalo123.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/building-an-orm-with-php/
- Alex Pearce continues his series about integrating Sharepoint and Moodle: http://www.bfcnetworks.com/integrating-sharepoint-and-moodle-storing-moodle-docs-in-sharepoint-part-2/
- Alex explains the WHYs of integrating Sharepoint and Moodle: http://www.bfcnetworks.com/integrating-sharepoint-and-moodle-but-why/
- If you are considering moving from SQL Server to SQL Azure, here are some important differences to be aware of: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/john_paul_cook/archive/2010/09/12/sql-azure-differences.aspx
- If you are beyond considering moving from SQL Server to SQL Azure, this is one look at moving an existing database to the cloud: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rdoherty/archive/2010/09/07/brute-force-migration-of-existing-sql-server-databases-to-sql-azure.aspx
- This is a great look at using WebMatrix to consume "Dallas" data with PHP: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jimoneil/archive/2010/09/06/dallas-on-php-via-webmatrix.aspx
- Cal Evans has some sage advice about finding good PHP developers (and it applies to all developers): http://blog.calevans.com/2010/09/11/how-do-i-find-good-php-developers/
- The Intersection of Open Source and the Cloud: http://port25.technet.com/archive/2010/09/14/the-intersection-of-open-source-and-the-cloud.aspx
- Best practices (according to Ralph Schindler) for exception handling in PHP 5.3: http://ralphschindler.com/2010/09/15/exception-best-practices-in-php-5-3
- Part 1 in a series about securing PHP applications: http://www.php-code.net/2010/09/securing-php-applications-part-i-securing-php-code/
- Chris Shiflett has a quick post about implementing Twitter Oauth (complete with a working demo): http://shiflett.org/blog/2010/sep/twitter-oauth
- SQL Azure has a new homepage: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlazure/default.aspx
Have a great weekend!
Thanks.
-Brian