I considered publishing a “best links of 2010” list here, but alas, there was too much good content in just this week to overlook…everything from another JumpIn Camp report and another ZCE exam experience to free Windows/SQL Azure passes...

Things are definitely not slowing down in December. This week, everything from news about a stable Doctrine 2 release (and how to use its DBAL to create DB schemas) to blog posts about bugs/features in PHP 5.3 (and a couple of just-for-fun links thrown...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post ( How to Change Database Settings with the PDO_SQLSRV Driver ) that highlighted a problem that came up at the November JumpIn! Camp in Redmond . To get to the root of the problem (and eventually a solution), I used...

I thought December was supposed to be a quiet month. Judging by all the excellent content I’m finding, I guess I was wrong… Announcing the 2011 Dutch PHP Conference (call for papers open until Jan 13th): http://techportal.ibuildings.com/2010/12/08/announcing...

Last week, Ruslan Yakushev announced the release of the 1.1 version of the PHP Manager for IIS . I thought a tour of the PHP Manager functionality might work best in video format. I’d be interested learning what you think of the PHP Manager itself, but...

Apologies in advance for this week’s lengthy list…too much good stuff to whittle it down much. If this keeps up, I’ll have to post lists twice a week! Carlos Bueno talks about the value of being a "full-stack programmer": http://calendar.perfplanet...

This post is based on another lesson I learned at the JumpIn! camp in Redmond a few weeks ago. The short story is this: If you are using the PDO_SQLSRV driver and you want to execute a query that changes a database setting (e.g. SET NOCOUNT ON ), use...

At the JumpIn! Camp that took place a few weeks ago, PHP developers from several countries were invited to come to Redmond and work closely with Microsoft developers to build support for SQL Server and SQL Azure into their applications. (As expected,...

November was an exceptionally busy month and, by the looks of things, December promises to be just as busy. This week’s links include news about an update release for the PHP Drivers for SQL Server, the JumpIn! Camp that took place a couple of weeks...

An update release to the Microsoft Drivers for SQL Server for PHP 2.0 is now available. You can download it here and you can read what Ashay Chaudhary (Program Manager for the drivers) had to say about the release here . The release contains fixes for...