Robert Pickering , the author of “ Foundations of F# ” hosts an informative wiki ; an excellent place to start.

John Lam is interviewed by James Turner at OSCON 2008 . To understand the interface between Microsoft and Open source, this is an excellent overview. With some Ruby stuff duck-typed in there, too

After a mysql_query with an INSERT statement, a quick call to mysql_insert_id provides the ID of the last inserted row. $lastRow = mysql_insert_id($link); How do you accomplish the same with the SQL Server Driver for PHP? In this extended example...

Over the years I have used the inbuilt PHP drivers for MySQL. The best mechanism for mapping the two methods is a simple table laying out a comparison between the two systems. Note this is not a SQLServer vs. MySQL argument, just for information and reference...

Woohoo! Codeplex now supports SVN . As an SVN user (via TortoiseSVN ) and follower of a few Codeplex projects: this makes scripting life much easier! (via @john_lam )

Prior to joining Microsoft, I always setup my Windows laptop as a PHP/Apache development workstation. Having created my own content management system in PHP (and who hasn’t!) – having a remote development copy is critical. Over the last few weeks,...

There is something cute about REPL with C#

Microsoft, PHP and IIS7 View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

Last week, the SQLServer 2008 Express team released a download with the SQL Server Management Studio . A few weeks ago, I blogged how to export/import the .sql from one system to another . Having installed the Management Studio, I noticed that I could...