Mark Brown's Web Platform Blog

Hi everyone. As most of you know my wife and I support an orphanage outside of Cusco, Peru from where we adopted our son.   Peru is currently in a state of crisis due to two weeks of heavy rains that have resulted in the Peruvian government declaring...

  Today has been a busy day as I woke up this morning and over my coffee while reading Twitter I came across a Tweet from Dries that Microsoft had run an advertisement that said, “Forget Drupal…” This caused a bit of a dust up among the Drupal Community...

Hey everybody. At the PDC this year the Web Platform Team at Microsoft has lots of great stuff in store for you all.   The Web Platform Pavilion in the Big Room at PDC is hosting a series of Chalk Talks during PDC with some really exciting sessions...

Hey everybody. I am up for Community Voting for the next SXSW Interactive Festival happening next March and I need your votes to get accepted. Here is the session I am presenting. HD Video Streaming Server using PHP and Silverlight A dash of PHP, a pinch...

Well I’m back from my weekend sojourn to Southern California for this year’s Drupal Camp LA held at the University of California Irvine. It was a great trip and I had a wonderful time down there. Overall the attendees at the Drupal Camp LA were surprised...

I am really excited to be presenting at Drupal Camp LA this weekend. Actually it’s in Irvine which is down in Orange County but who cares. I’m getting a chance to go back to a place I called home for a long time before moving up to Seattle to work for...

  We are happy to announce that Sugar CRM Community Edition is now in the Windows Web Application Gallery . Sugar is the leading open source customer relationship management (CRM) solution. Sugar gives users a complete view of their customers through...

Tomorrow, July 7 th , 10AM PT, 1PM ET – We are broadcasting the Michael Jackson memorial, live in HD from the Staples Center in Los Angeles using IIS Smooth Streaming and Silverlight to the world. This broadcast is available to everyone World-Wide. Make...

On June 11-14 2009, over 200,000 people will be attending the Country Music Association’s Music Festival in Nashville, Tennessee.  For the first time in the history of the Music Festival, Microsoft is will have a significant presence at the event...

  It’s a busy day at the office as we have another new application up in the Windows Web Application Gallery today, AmpliFeeder . AmpliFeeder is a distributed social activity aggregator. In their own words…   You are no longer defined by your...

  The good times just keep on rolling over here on the Web Platform team here at Microsoft. We have just released a new application out onto the  Windows Web Application Gallery, nopCommerce .   nopCommerce is the leading ASP.NET online...

SQL Server 2008 offers an impressive array of capabilities for developers that build upon key innovations introduced in SQL Server 2005.  The SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit will help you understand how to build web applications which deeply...

  We have a new application in our Windows Web Application Gallery, ResourceBlender.NET ResourceBlender.NET enables you to quickly translate an application into multiple languages. An AJAX interface lets translators work over the internet or download...

Hey busy day blogging today about the Microsoft Web Platform today!!!   Check this out, a new SDK for PHP developers to build applications using PHP on Azure. They have 4 sample projects that you can download from CodePlex for you to peruse. http...

  Great news for web developers who are building PHP applications that integrate with SQL Server. We have just released an update to the Web Platform Installer that now includes the Microsoft SQL Server Driver for PHP 1.0.        ...

On May 12, 2009 we announced that the Microsoft Web Platform Installer has downloaded over 1.5 million products since January 2009.   The Microsoft Web Platform Installer 1.0 and 2.0, and the Windows Web Application Gallery, which has received more...

There comes a time only maybe once in our lives where a true hero for the web developer emerges. They are caring problem solvers but are rough around the edges, they drive fast cars from the 80’s, they drink a bit too much and sometimes get into a little...

Hey everybody. Apologies for not blogging lately. With the arrival of our baby I took a month off from work to spend time with the new baby (here’s a picture of him doing his Derek Zoolander look) and to give my wife a much needed break (well I tried...

The IIS Team has just released an updated guidance on how to package web applications when building them into our Windows Web Application Gallery. If you are actively working on creating a web application to submit to the Application Gallery you should...

Over my forth cup of coffee this morning I was doing my normal routine and reading some blogs when I came across Scott Hanselman’s post yesterday about his “MUST HAVES” for paving his machines. Scott had tweeted on the Web Platform Installer during MIX09...

It’s Barry White time around here baby. Ah Yeah! We’ve just announced our new Windows Web Application Gallery and the love is just flowing from our partners that helped us launch this great new experience. Check out the screen shots from a few of our...

Today at MIX09 Scott Guthrie , Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Developer Division provided more details about our strategy for the Microsoft Web Platform and as part of that announced the release of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta...

Check it out. We just released an updated our SQL Data Services with true relational DB support and also works with our tools with easy provisioning, fault tolerance, high availability, everything you’d need for a DB in the Cloud. The SQL Server Data...

Hello folks. I am the proud father of our new baby Kiernan Thomas Brown. Born March 2nd, 2009 at 11:29AM, 8 lbs 9 oz.

So it's been 104 days since I last blogged. Frankly I'll be surprised if anyone is still subscribed to me. Well I'm back. I just today started in my new gig at Microsoft on the Web Platform team working for Lauren Cooney and I'm going to be talking about...