This Week’s Link List (August 20, 2010)

The dog days of summer are here. Seems like things are a bit slow lately…I only have a few links to share, in any case. But share I will…the lack of quantity does not impact their quality… 

• The comments add a lot of information to this post about uploading large files with PHP: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2010/08/17/upload-large-files-in-php/

• I've been spending quite a bit of time learning about Windows Azure AppFabric lately. This free course looks helpful: http://www.msdev.com/Directory/Description.aspx?eventId=1873

• This is a good article about getting PHP and SQL Server Express setting up in a dev environment: http://www.absolutemg.com/2010/08/making-sql-server-2008-and-php-play-nice/
• Cal Evans writes about 5 easy ways to get involved in the PHP community (and much to my chagrin, I'm only doing 3 of the 5): http://devzone.zend.com/article/12450-Get-involed-in-the-PHP-community-5-easy-steps-that-take-less-than-5-minutes-each
• The 2nd in a series of posts on the Ibuildings blog about scalable systems: http://www.ibuildings.co.uk/blog/archives/1599-Scalable-Systems,-Part-2-Processes.html

• Some notes on the Ibuildings blog about migrating to PHP 5.3: http://www.ibuildings.co.uk/blog/archives/1600-Supporting-a-PHP-migration.html#extended

• This is a detailed look at SQL Azure pricing and performance: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlazure/archive/2010/08/19/10051969.aspx

• A strong argument for database-agnostic code in applications: http://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/oracle-vs-google

Enjoy the heat while it lasts.

Thanks.

-Brian

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