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I am excited to share some great news about how we are opening up the SQL Server data platform even further with expanded interoperability support through new tools that allow customers to modernize their infrastructure while maximizing existing investments and extending virtually any data anywhere....

As Microsoft’s Senior Director of Open Source Communities , I couldn’t be happier to share with you today an update on a wide range of Open Source developments on Windows Azure. As we continue to provide incremental improvements to Windows Azure , we remain committed to working with developer...

I’m pleased to announce that today we released the OData Producer Library for PHP. In case you missed it, we released last year a client library that allows PHP applications to consume an OData feed, and with this new library it now easy for PHP Applications to generate OData Feeds. PHP developers...

It’s been a busy week here in Croydon (just outside of central London), and Microsoft is very proud to be participating in our 5 th DrupalCon. The most exciting bit is the clear progress that’s been made as a result of our engagements with the Drupal community. Last month also marked the...

Good news for all the PHP and Java developers out there: today we are publishing some Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus samples just for you. Since the AppFabric Service Bus REST API can be used from almost all programming languages and operating systems, it makes it very easy for applications written...

From the floor of the PHP Tek Conference in Chicago, with my colleague Peter Laudati , we’re excited to announce the availability of the Windows Azure SDK for PHP version 3.0 . This Open Source SDK gives PHP developers a “speed dial” library to take full advantage of Windows Azure’s...

Isn't Valentine's Day a perfect occasion to think about relationships? Other than my family, the relationship I care most about nowadays is the one between Microsoft and the Open Source communities which, to put it mildly, have been interesting in the past. As I'm learning my way through this new adventure...

Since the launch of Windows Azure a couple years ago, we’ve been working on driving Interoperability scenarios that enable various developers to harness the power of the Windows Azure cloud platform. In parallel, we’ve supported interoperability projects, in particular on PHP and Drupal,...

The new version of Drupal 7 was released a couple weeks ago, and now that people have finally recovered from the many Drupal release parties around the world (like in London ), we, at Microsoft, want to formally welcome this new version. From our point of view, Drupal version 7 marks an important milestone...

There are many common scenarios in web development that require processing of information, gathering data, or handling message traffic that can be accomplished asynchronously – meaning in the background while the user is doing other things with the application. A common example of this is sending...

The Windows Azure tools for PHP (see the list below) got an update for Christmas (well a little bit before, to be honest ;-), following up with the new version of the Windows Azure SDK 1.3 that was updated in November. As a reminder, here is what these three are doing: Windows Azure Command-line...

The weather in the northern hemisphere is still a little nippy, and if you're like me, you're spending a lot of time indoors with family and friends enjoying the holiday season. If you're spending some of your time catching up and learning new things in the wonderful world of cloud computing, we have...

At the annual ZendCon 2010 in Santa Clara, CA today, Zend Technologies announced general availability of Zend Framework 1.11, the latest release of its PHP application framework. This adds support for mobile application development and includes the open source Simple Cloud API, which allows PHP developers...

As Microsoft continues to deliver on improving the Java developer experience on Windows Azure, I am happy to tell you that today, at the Professional Developers Conference 2010 (PDC 10) held here in Redmond, we are announcing a new set of tools based on Eclipse and updated client libraries (SDK) for...

Things are moving pretty fast! A few weeks back we announced a series of new and updated Tools/SDKs for PHP developers targeting Windows Azure, which included the Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse/PHP , a comprehensive set of tools that use the Eclipse development environment to create, test and deploy...

This week, I’m attending the Open Source India conference, in Chennai , India where I had the chance to participate in the opening keynote. During my talk, I gave a quick overview of the Interoperability Elements of a Cloud Platform , and I illustrated some elements through a series of demos. I...

Microsoft is announcing an important interoperability milestone: the release of the Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server 2.0!! The major highlight of this release is the addition of the PDO_SQLSRV driver, which adds support for PHP Data Objects (PDO). Providing the PDO_SQLSRV driver enables popular...

Web Services protocols have been around for ten years now. The specifications around these protocols have moved through major standards bodies and most vendors and open source projects have implementations of these web services protocols in their products. That being said, connecting heterogeneous platforms...

Here’s an interesting way for WordPress developers to easily manage the “404/Page not found” error by leveraging the Bing search engine using the recently released Bing Search Library for PHP project (a wrapper on top of the Bing API, which provides a simple way to submit queries to...

The Bing Search and Decision engine offers a comprehensive Application Programming Interface (API) that enables developers to programmatically submit queries to and retrieve results from the Bing Engine. If you are a PHP developer and looking for a way to easily enable the search feature on your website...

Today at Tek-X during the “ Tips & Tricks to get the most of PHP with IIS, and the Windows Azure Cloud ” session, Microsoft showcased the new version of the Windows Azure Command-line Tool for PHP available for download under an open source BSD license at: http://azurephptools.codeplex...

Continuing our efforts on improving interoperability between PHP and Microsoft technologies, we have created an example showcasing a new plugin for WordPress that allows WordPress developers to take advantage of the storage capacity of Windows Azure. This plugin enables WordPress to use Windows Azure...

From the Microsoft Web Platform Team Blog: “ Today Microsoft is announcing that the Windows Web Application Gallery and Web Platform Installer (Web PI) now supports the download of the new phpBB release, which supports Windows, IIS and SQL Server. Version 3.0.7-PL1 of phpBB takes advantage of...

Hi, I’m Ashay Chaudhary, Program Manager at Microsoft. Today at DrupalCon SF 2010, we are reaching an important milestone by releasing a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the new SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0 , which includes support for PHP Data Objects (PDO). Alongside our efforts, the Commerce...

This week I was at SugarCon 2010, the CRM conference . SugarCRM , one of my partners in the Interop Vendor Alliance (IVA) , is a leading provider of open source customer relationship management (CRM) software. SugarCon, is its global customer, partner and developer conference held April 12-14, at The...