This Week’s Link List (June 4, 2010)

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 week’s links pertain to Microsoft’s cloud. A few other interesting links are sprinkled in for good measure…

• This is a great look the Make Web Not War event that took place on May 27th. Here's a teaser: "On May 27th, 2010 at the site of Make Web Not War, Brave Developers from Open Source and Microsoft Stacks shared the field of battle to learn how to leverage Open Source Technologies on the Microsoft Platform" - http://inspiredology.com/make-web-not-war-the-aftermath/
• Maarten Balliauw has updated the PHPExcel project on Codeplex: http://phpexcel.codeplex.com/releases/view/46345
• Josh Holmes talks about being a guest on the WordPress podcast on WebMasterRadio.fm: http://www.joshholmes.com/blog/2010/06/02/wordpress-podcast/
• This is a post on the SQL Azure team blog: "Before migrating your SQL Server schema to SQL Azure, you need to create a clustered index on every table...In this post, we will show how to find all the tables that don’t have a clustered index." - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlazure/archive/2010/06/02/10018878.aspx
• More from Maarten Balliauw. He blogs about using Windows Azure to auto-scale ChronoRace - http://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2010/06/02/Running-on-Windows-Azure-e28093-ChronoRace.aspx
• And more from Josh Holmes…this time about resolving PHP version conflicts when developing for Windows Azure - http://www.joshholmes.com/blog/2010/06/03/resolving-php-version-conflicts-while-developing-for-azure/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JoshHolmes+%28Josh+Holmes%29
• One stop shopping for whitepapers about all things Azure - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/whitepapers/
• This is a great post about how to connect to SQL Server with a domain account from a non-Microsoft operating system - http://blog.dynom.nl/archives/Connecting-from-PHP-on-a-not-Microsoft-OS-to-MSSQL-with-a-domain-account_20100604_56.html
• Good post about work that has been done toward Wordpress-Microsoft interoperability - http://blogdesignstudio.com/wordpress-plugins/microsoft-wordpress-open-source-iis/

Thanks.

-Brian

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