A bit shorter than usual list this week, but some good reading nonetheless…especially the last link :-)… "Who says Microsoft doesn’t listen? Here is a chance to voice your opinion and make .NET more interoperable and easier to...

One of the most interesting presentations I attended at the Dutch PHP Conference was a presentation about NoSQL by Matthew Weier O’Phinney . (The slides for his presentation are the same ones he used at TEK-X and are available here: http://is.gd...

At the Dutch PHP Conference a couple of weeks ago, I did a presentation that included a demonstration of running multiple PHP versions with IIS. (This is a great feature if you want to test an application against different versions of PHP.) However, I...

I missed posting a Link List last week (I posted resources from my DPC presentation instead), so some of these links may seem a bit dated. And, some are , in fact, a bit old, but I found them to be very helpful in preparing for my DPC presentation…I...

The theme for my presentation at the Dutch PHP Conference last week was “recent improvements in PHP-Microsoft interoperability”. In my talk, I showcased several of the PHP tools that the Interoperability Team at Microsoft has released on CodePlex...

The SQL Server Driver for PHP team has announced the release of CTP 2 of the Microsoft Driver for PHP for SQL Server 2.0 ( download here ). (If you don’t know what a “CTP” release is, see Ashay’s blog post from yesterday .) Back...

My “PHP on Windows” presentation at the Dutch PHP Conference (presented today…whew!) focused on the recent improvements in interoperability between PHP and Microsoft Technologies (my slides are attached to this post). If you attended...

This has been a busy week…apparently especially so for Maarten Balliauw and Josh Holmes (lots of good stuff from them this week). And, it seems to have been a busy week for news about Windows Azure – a higher-than-usual proportion of this...

I’ve written a couple of blog posts about the Filestream feature that is available with SQL Server Express: one post on my blog ( Store Images in the Database or Filesystem? ) and one post as a guest writer on the SQL Server Driver for PHP Team...

Some time ago I wrote a post about how to run PHP in Windows Azure . At the heart of that post was information about using the tools that are available in the Windows Azure Software Development Kit to package a PHP application for deployment to Windows...