One of the best insights I had at the SQL Server JumpIn! Camp back in November was this: Lots of PHP applications and frameworks generate SQL queries dynamically. I’m sure that for very experienced developers, that realization comes across as somewhat...

You might need more than a weekend to get through all of these links. My favorite is Ashay Chaudhary’s post about the journey to adding SQL Server support to Drupal 7. But there are lots of other interesting links, including webinar and conference...

The Interoperability Team at Microsoft announced today the availability of an update to the Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse that includes support for the Windows Azure SDK 1.3. People who upgraded to the Windows Azure SDK 1.3 and tried using a previous...

My first link list of 2001 picks up where 2010 left off – probably too long, but there was too much good stuff to overlook. Highlights include information about the release of Drupal 7, report and resolution of an interesting PHP bug, a look back...

Some time back I wrote a post that showed how to get started with creating Windows Azure PHP projects in Eclipse . What I didn’t talk about in that post was a nifty Eclipse feature (the Windows Azure Storage Explorer) that allows you easily manage...

If you only read one thing from this week’s list of PHP-related content, read the article about sanitizing user input data (2nd from last). Of course, there is lots of other good content too…enjoy! PHP 5.3.5 and PHP 5.2.17 have been...

Well, December did finally slow down a bit and I had a chance to catch up with Ashay Chaudhary , the Program Manager for the Microsoft Drivers for SQL Server for PHP . We had a lot to catch up about because we haven’t found much time to sit down...

A couple of months ago, Rob Allen pointed out in a blog post that no Zend Framework PDO adapter existed for SQL Server. But, he also noted that it would be easy to write one…so he did: https://github.com/akrabat/Akrabat/blob/master/zf1/Akrabat...

Whew! Friday…made it! Once again, lots of interesting content out there this week. Instead of simply listing a bunch of links, I’m experimenting this week with categorizing some of them. Hopefully, this will help you find stuff that YOU find...