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Brian Swan
Accessing Windows Azure Table Storage from PHP
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June 7, 2012 update: The Microsoft Windows Azure team has released a new Windows Azure SDK for PHP . This release is part of an effort to keep PHP client libraries up to date with new Windows Azure features and to make PHP a first-class citizen in Windows...
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Running Multiple PHP Versions with IIS
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At the Dutch PHP Conference a couple of weeks ago, I did a presentation that included a demonstration of running multiple PHP versions with IIS. (This is a great feature if you want to test an application against different versions of PHP.) However, I...
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This Week’s Link List (June 18, 2010)
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I missed posting a Link List last week (I posted resources from my DPC presentation instead), so some of these links may seem a bit dated. And, some are , in fact, a bit old, but I found them to be very helpful in preparing for my DPC presentation…I...
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Interview with Claudio Caldato, Program Manager for the Microsoft Interoperability Team
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The theme for my presentation at the Dutch PHP Conference last week was “recent improvements in PHP-Microsoft interoperability”. In my talk, I showcased several of the PHP tools that the Interoperability Team at Microsoft has released on CodePlex...
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CTP 2 of Microsoft Driver for PHP for SQL Server Released!
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The SQL Server Driver for PHP team has announced the release of CTP 2 of the Microsoft Driver for PHP for SQL Server 2.0 ( download here ). (If you don’t know what a “CTP” release is, see Ashay’s blog post from yesterday .) Back...
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PHP on Windows Resources from DPC Presentation
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My “PHP on Windows” presentation at the Dutch PHP Conference (presented today…whew!) focused on the recent improvements in interoperability between PHP and Microsoft Technologies (my slides are attached to this post). If you attended...
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This Week’s Link List (June 4, 2010)
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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...
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SQL Express Size Limit – Filestream Excepted
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I’ve written a couple of blog posts about the Filestream feature that is available with SQL Server Express: one post on my blog ( Store Images in the Database or Filesystem? ) and one post as a guest writer on the SQL Server Driver for PHP Team...
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Using the Windows Azure Command Line Tools for PHP
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Some time ago I wrote a post about how to run PHP in Windows Azure . At the heart of that post was information about using the tools that are available in the Windows Azure Software Development Kit to package a PHP application for deployment to Windows...
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This Week's Link List (May 28, 2010)
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Lot's of interesting links this week...topics ranging from Microsoft's involvement in PHP/Open Source to tips on how to secure a PHP application. As usual, I hope these prove to be interesting and/or helpful... Cal Evans talks about "seeing Microsoft...
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How to Get the SQL Azure Session Tracing ID using PHP
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The SQL Azure team recently posted a blog about SQL Azure and the Session Tracing ID . The short story about the Session Tracing ID is that it is a new property (a unique GUID) for connections to SQL Azure. The nice thing about it is that if you have...
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Interview with Zach Owens, Technical Evangelist At Microsoft
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Recently I was able to catch up with Zach Owens, a technical evangelist here at Microsoft who is focused on getting the word out to developers about the Microsoft Data Platform. As I think you will see, catching up with Zach is no easy feat. During my...
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This Week's Link List (May 21, 2010)
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<Sound of big breath> OK, I’m coming up for air. Very busy week…I’ve been heads down working on a number of things. BUT, I’ve still managed to come across some excellent resources related to PHP and/or Microsoft…...
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This Week’s Link List (May 14, 2010)
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Here’s this week’s list of links that grabbed my attention…check ‘em out: A new PHP/Azure lab on MSDev: "This lab is designed for developers who work with PHP and who would like to be able to run PHP applications on the Microsoft Windows Azure...
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Understanding Cursor Options in the SQL Server Driver for PHP
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After v1.0 of the SQL Server Driver for PHP was released (back in July of 2008), the development team received lots of requests to implement “scrollable result sets” (i.e. random access to the rows in a result set) in the next release. They...
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Running WordPress on SQL Server
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It seems to be a well kept secret that WordPress runs on a SQL Server or SQL Azure database. At least it was well kept from me until recently. (Perhaps that says something about my ability to follow current news, but that’s a topic for another day.) In...
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This Week’s Link List (May 7, 2010)
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I didn’t come across lots of interesting links this week, but I’ll make up for the lack of quantity with an abundance of quality. There continues to be lots of interesting news about PHP/SQL Server interoperability with some major PHP applications… ...
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Interview with Ashay Chaudhary, Program Manager for the SQL Server Driver for PHP
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One of the things I like most about my job is that I get to work directly with our software development teams. This has obvious benefits – I have direct access to the people who can explain how and why code does what it does when I can’t figure it out...
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Getting Started with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and PHP
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In a recent post I took a look at how to get started with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) . In this post I’ll dive into the SSRS SDK for PHP that was recently released by the Interoperability team here at Microsoft. The SSRS SDK for PHP allows you...
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This Week’s Link List (April 30, 2010)
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No particular theme to this week’s links… In his blog post "The Last Mile for Open Data", Nik Garkusha writes "Whether through the momentum created by open data communities, activists, municipalities, or developer communities, help from industry...
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Getting Started with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
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The Interoperability team here at Microsoft recently released the SSRS SDK for PHP (SSRS = SQL Server Reporting Services ). At the time of the announcement, I was very excited to check out this SDK, but I was so busy that I’ve just recently had a chance...
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Design Decisions in the PDO Driver for SQL Server
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I’ve recently talked with the SQL Server Driver for PHP team about some of the harder design decisions they have had to make while building the PDO interface for the sqlsrv driver . Some of these challenging decisions stemmed from the fact that the team...
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What was Microsoft Doing at DrupalCon?
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Whew! DrupalCon was fun…and exhausting. I don’t know why, but I’m always surprised that conferences can be simultaneously exhausting and energizing. Right now, it feels good to be back home, and I’m enjoying looking back on my experience with the perspective...
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This Week’s Link List (April 23, 2010)
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I’m back from an exciting trip to DrupalCon in SF and I’m still reflecting on that experience. Look for a DrupalCon summary from me early next week. In the meantime, I’ll share some of my interesting links for the week. Of course, several of these are...
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PDO Cheat Sheet for SQL Server Driver for PHP
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I know, I know…part of the point in having a common data abstraction layer like PDO is that you only have to know one API for accessing any database…so who needs a cheat sheet? Well, I do. With this weeks release of the SQL Server Driver...
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