Yesterday, Ruslan Yakushev announced the availability of the final, stable release of the PHP Manager for IIS (v1.0). (It is available for download here .) There have been some significant changes in the final release since I wrote about the first beta...

This week, there was lots of news about the release of Windows Azure Companion and updates to other Azure-related SDKs for PHP. And, an important announcement about an ASP.NET vulnerability that could affect PHP sites running on IIS…and other stuff…...

I wrote a post a while back about getting started with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and PHP that has generated lots of questions (both in the comments and in e-mail and conversations I’ve had since then). One of the most common questions...

This past weekend Vijay Rajagopalan of the Interoperability Team at Microsoft delivered the keynote at OSI Days . As part of his presentation, he announced the release of four projects that may be of interest to PHP developers: Windows Azure Companion...

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...

Did you know that data stored in Windows Azure Table storage can be accessed through an OData feed? Does that question even make sense to you? If you answered no to either of those questions and you are interested in learning more, then read on. In this...

In the post I wrote last week about transaction isolation levels I left out an important option: the snapshot isolation level for database transactions. I’ll cover the snapshot isolation level in this post, and (as in my earlier post) I’ll...

Here’s the list of interesting links I came across this week… I came across this post ACID and NoSQL while doing homework on transaction isolation levels : http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2010/08/problems-with-acid-and-how-to-fix-them...

I had the good fortune of meeting Eli White , a junior at University of Washington and a PHP developer of 7 years, for the first time at the local Seattle PHP Meet Up a few months ago. I then ran into him recently at Microsoft where I found he is doing...

Last week I had the good fortune of presenting at the the Seattle PHP Meet Up on a topic I knew only a little about: transaction isolation levels. It was fun doing the homework to learn more and I’ll share what I learned in this post. However, before...

I missed last week’s list because I was out enjoying the last of our summer weather in in the Pacific northwest, so this week’s list spans two weeks… This may not seem like a big deal to most folks, but to anyone who knows Microsoft...

If you are having trouble making sense of the title of this post, I don’t blame you. To clear things up, here’s what this post is about (which I couldn’t fit any more concisely into a title): The SQL Azure Labs team has made it possible...