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On December 10, 2011, a new version of WindowsAzure.com went live.  There are many improvements and a ton of new things to check out.  My teammate Jim O’Neil recently covered a key improvement in getting started with The New, Improved No-Risk Windows Azure Trial .  (Do read it as a step...

Joomla! Day NYC 2011 was hosted in the Microsoft NYC office over the weekend of October 21st through October 23rd. A Joomla!Day is a local, regional or national gathering of the Joomla! community. It is like a “ code camp ” for those interested in learning about, or contributing to, Joomla!. The New...

One pain point I hear from Windows Azure developers is around deployment times.  To the end user, when you deploy an application in Windows Azure, you’re simply uploading a relatively small “package” (.cspkg) file containing the files of your web application. When you do this, it can sometimes take...

I’m currently attending the PHP Tek Conference in Chicago, Illinois this week with a couple of my Microsoft colleagues, including Craig Kitterman , Mark Brown , and Brian Prince . Tek is a conference where great minds from the PHP community come together to share some great content. One of the...

Just caught wind of a great blog post by Cory Fowler , a Windows Azure expert and one of our Windows Azure MVPs , posted to the Port 25 – Canada blog .  It is “Part 1” of a multi-part blog series on, " Installing PHP on Windows Azure leveraging Full IIS Support ". Cory is a new contributor...

Earlier this month, Drupal 7 was released .  Drupal 7 is a "friendly and powerful content management platform for building nearly any kind of website: from blogs and micro-sides to collaborative social communities” (from the Drupal site ).  Over the past couple of years, through collaboration...

Last summer, Microsoft announced a collection of new tools for creating websites on Windows, wrapped into a package called WebMatrix . Dmitry Lyalin , Andrew Brust , and I discussed it on the Connected Show back in July 2010 . I also spoke on it recently at WordCamp NYC 2010 back in October . After...

In this episode, frequent guest & co-host Andrew Brust joins Peter to re-cap the recent Microsoft PDC 2010 conference and Silverlight 5 Firestarter. Andrew and Peter discuss the latest Azure platform developments, including VM role, Admin mode, and SQL Azure sharding.  In the mix, they cover...

On October 16th & 17th, I had the privilege of attending WordCamp NYC 2010 . WordCamps are community events that bring together WordPress-loving web publishers and developers to learn more about the WordPress platform. The first day of WordCamp NYC had a structured schedule with pre-selected speakers...

In this episode, guests Kanwaljeet Singla, Don Raman, and Wade Hilmo from the Microsoft IIS team join Peter to discuss the evolution of PHP on the Windows Platform. The IIS folks tell us about the improvements made to Windows in order to support PHP, including: Fast CGI, WinCache, PHP 5.3, the Web PI...

In this episode, the man, the myth, the legend: C# MVP Jon Skeet joins Peter on a whirlwind tour into the bowels of the C# language. Jon talks up lambdas, expression trees, and other C# goodness. Prepare to have your brain tickled! (Interview starts at 31:18) Also, guest host Andrew Brust joins Peter...

In this episode, Microsoft’s own Sara Ford joins Peter to discuss her work on the CodePlex.com open source software hosting platform. Sara dishes on how the CodePlex.com team evolved the site over time using Agile methodologies, as well as her own journey from Visual Studio tipster to Silicon Valley...

In this episode, guest host Andrew Brust joins Peter to cover the Windows Phone 7 Series news from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Also, Andrew and Peter discuss the latest developer & interoperability news, including: The Enterprise Library roadmap from the Microsoft Patterns & Practices...

In this episode, guest Mark Pollack joins Peter to discuss the Spring.NET application framework. In a world driven by POJO s and POCO s, Mark tells us about how he originally created Spring.NET for a team of Java developers to enable a similar development experience in .NET. Since then, the framework...

Okay… it’s Friday.  While I’m selling out for contests, I thought I might as well share another cool one. The thought of a new 52” HDTV makes me want to try this one out.  (I’m still on a 27” tube!) This one comes via Joe Stagner … Try your hand at PHP on Windows and win a complete 52"...

In this episode, guest Maarten Balliauw joins Peter to discuss his implementation of Language Integrated Query (LINQ) for PHP and linking (non-pun intended) PHP to Microsoft Office Excel via the PHPExcel project . Maarten is a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET and a PHP developer. Also, Dmitry and Peter discuss...

Last week, I had the privilege of helping to organize and participate at the Microsoft PHP Web Developer Summit in Redmond, Wa. As part of my role as a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft, this is one of the events that gets me most excited about my job. I often speak at and deliver technical presentations...

In this episode guests Sumit Chawla (Microsoft Interop Team) & Tim Wise (Dominos Pizza) join Peter to discuss offloading a Java/Tomcat server infrastructure to Windows Azure to save Dominos money (Interview starts at 40:31).  Sumit also covers the latest Azure interoperability announcements...

In this episode, guest Claudio Caldato joins Peter to discuss interoperability at Microsoft and how his team is working to make Windows Azure cloud services more accessible to PHP developers.  Claudio provides us details on the PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services.  Guest host G. Andrew Duthie...

This week, guest Joe Stagner joins Peter to discuss the future of ASP.NET, what it means to be the Misfit Geek at Microsoft, what Plan 9 means for web developers and some comparisons to PHP.  Dmitry and Peter discuss the news with Windows Azure management, Courier tablet rumors, the new Website...

Some of my colleagues on the IT Pro side of the fence are putting on a great series of Roadshow events focused on interoperability.  The NYC stop is coming next week on Thursday April 30th from 8:30am – 12:30pm.  Visit the site for details: http://www.technetevents.com/interop/index.htm REGISTER...

So I have a ReMIX confession to make. I was originally scheduled to deliver a session at ReMIX called "Partying with PHP on Windows". With all of the behind the scenes work going on, I just wouldn't have had time to prepare a great session. Instead, I passed my speaking slot over to my colleague David...

I'm at ReMIX '07 Boston today. ReMIX is all about connecting web designers, developers, and business decision makers and showcasing topics and solutions that bridge Microsoft and non-Microsoft perspectives, and emphasize the inclusive and participatory nature of the next web. It's been great to see the...

ReMIX07 Boston – Monday-Tuesday, October 8-9, 2007 On the frontiers of the Web, boundaries are blurring—developers and designers, advertisers and publishers, software and services, media and technology, TV and PCs, PCs and mobile devices, producers and consumers. The old order is getting a little MIXed...

For the past couple of weeks that I've been a delinquent blogger, it sure seems that way! I've seen things that I never thought I'd see, as well as things that I haven't seen in a long time. First off, in the category of things I haven't seen in a long time, MSFT ticked above the $30 dollar mark! This...