My second post of the day is another one about User Groups and communities. You’d think we only work with Microsoft-technology focused user groups? You’d be wrong One of the user groups I’ve been working with in the past few years is the PHPBenelux . Since there are enough interesting touch-points around...

WebMatrix is a free web tool from Microsoft. In one sentence: it’s an all-in-one tool you can use to download, install and tweak and publish a website based on an open source app like WordPress, Umbraco, Drupal, … OR program your own site with an easy-to-use Razor syntax and ASP.NET Web Pages. Now that...

Last Friday the PHPBenelux User Group held its second PHP Benelux Conference, January 28 to 29 2011. Like the first year, Microsoft was a sponsor of the event. This year however we were not simply present to talk about PHP support on Windows and in the cloud: we actually worked together with the community...

As you might have noticed, support for running PHP on Windows is growing stronger. With the enhancements in FastCGI for Internet Information Services for hosting PHP, the OData SDK for PHP ,  but also the recent announcement of the SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0 with PDO support , there is quite...

On Friday March 5th 2010, Josh Holmes will be presenting a session at the Microsoft offices in Zaventem: ‘ Leveraging Azure with non-Microsoft Technologies ’. The event is a joint organization between the PHPBenelux user group and Microsoft. The event is part of Josh’s PHP/Ruby on Azure Word Tour . If...

Last month I joined the folks behind Le Podcast High Tech to talk about Microsoft’s support for running PHP applications on Windows, and other areas focusing on interoperability. I was invited by Gilles Bailleux, from the drupalfr.be community who was interested in giving us some ‘air-time’ during his...

Next week Kevin Dockx and Maarten Balliauw will be presenting a session at the PHP Benelux user group event . The event will take place on the 28th of October at 18h. Check out the site if you want to register. Maarten & Kevin’s session will be around Silverlight with PHP. Interesting topic if you...

Yesterday we held REMIX Brussels 2009 at Kinepolis. I had a good time during the keynote and talking to many of the attendees during the day. I’ll do a more detailed write-up in due time. In the meantime you can already see some pictures here and here . WebsiteSpark During the keynote, Luc Van de Velde...

As you might know running PHP applications on Windows Server 2008 (and Vista SP1) and Internet Information Services 7 (IIS7) is supported through the FastCGI module. If you need to learn more there is good news: a full training kit has been released. Besides addressing configuration of PHP on IIS 7 it...